Dr. Nicole McNichols

The rest needs some kind of clitoral stimulation, either in conjunction while you're having penetrative sex or on its own.

So...

When I teach this and show this data in my class, I have so many people on the edge of their seats, right?

Women feeling normalized, right?

My female students feeling like, God, I thought I was broken, that I couldn't have sex just from normal, as we call it in the literature, penis and vagina sex.

And also men who feel like, oh my God,

This explains it.

I thought it was a failure on my part that I wasn't, you know, doing sex right, right, that I was failing.

You know, but unfortunately, we don't teach people that.

And it leads to a huge epidemic of people faking orgasms, especially women faking orgasms, which does not lead to anyone's pleasure at all.

It was actually 2005, but it took about 10 years for it to come into mainstream literature.

Isn't that wild, Mel?

I mean, if you think about it, right?

I mean, and the reason why, of course, is that the clitoris' only purpose is sexual pleasure.

It plays zero role in reproduction.

And so historically, you know, because female sexual pleasure has been placed in this framework of not important, right, if anything, threatening,

It was just ignored.

It was viewed as inconsequential.

But luckily, in 2005, a very famous scientist, Dr. Helen O'Connell, through MRI studies was able to map its full structure and it completely turned on its head everything we know about female pleasure and everything we know about female anatomy.

Yeah.