Dr. Rachel Rubin
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And then it's this thing of have they always done it that way because that's what normal or that's just how they've done it and they continue to do it that way is probably the answer.
But it's wild, right?
Because...
people think they come, no man comes to see me and says, Dr. Rubin, I'm broken.
I rub my thigh, but I just can't orgasm.
You're like, well, no shit.
That's not your penis, right?
So it's really, you know, when women say I'm broken, I can't orgasm from penetration.
Well, it's probably going to take you longer than five and a half minutes to have an orgasm with a partner, which is what the data shows.
Your partner is certainly not lasting much longer than five and a half minutes, which is what the data shows.
And so sex needs to become more than just about penetrative activities, right?
And
it should be more than just about orgasm.
It should be sort of adult playtime fun that people are having and they're laughing and they're joking and they're enjoying each other's bodies if that's fun for you.
And then the question is, how can we make you drive better if that's what you want?
You know, I think about the misunderstanding of this genital anatomy and where the clitoris is.
How do you think this is playing out in like,
surgical mishaps and things that go wrong in the surgical space because we were never taught really the correct anatomy.
Yeah, this is a true disaster.
I would say I got some of my popularity back in 2022 when this brilliant woman, Rachel Gross, journalist who wrote this book called Vagina Obscura, it's a great book, but she wrote an article in the New York Times that was called Half the World Has a Clitoris, Why Don't Doctors Study It?,