If you think the clitoral glans is all AFABs have to offer, you’re drinking the head off your beer and throwing the rest into the pot plant

Yesterday I wrote a post about the clitoris. I cited a study that found that a quarter of men couldn’t point it out on a diagram, so a bunch of men and women told me they were different. They knew exactly where it was: at the top of the vulva under a tiny hood. A few were baffled that anyone would even call this complicated.

If you think you can fit a clit in your mouth, you don’t know what the clitoris looks like.

If you think you can see the clitoris, you don’t know what the organ looks like.

It seems as though I need to mansplain this one. <hauls out pointy stick and whiteboard>

That tiny nub is not the clitoris. It’s the clitoral glans. The penis has a glans, too. It accounts for approximately 10% of the penis. If all womankind decided to ignore everything but the penile glans forever more, men would begin having far fewer orgasms, all while ignoring everything but the clitoral glans.

The glans is just the tip. The rest of the clitoris splits into two long arms that track along the labia all the way to the vaginal entrance in a V-shape. The clitoral bulbs then run internally under the vaginal walls. Some believe that the G-spot is an extension of the clit.

All that tissue accounts for around an inch in diameter and 4.5 inches in length. She might be bigger than you are, Frank, and all of those parts are made of erectile tissue.

Why does this matter? Because ignorance is one of the biggest causative factors of the orgasm gap. Women are literally having fewer orgasms because a quarter of men and 29% of women have never explored the orgasmic potential of the entire organ, just the tip.

If you think the clitoral glans is all AFABs have to offer, you’re drinking the head off your beer and throwing the rest into the pot plant.