Recently, Dr. Ju Young Lee built upon the research of Dr. Helen O'Connell and created a complete 3D mapping of the nerves of the clitoris. What they found was extraordinary.
There are several complex tree-like branching nerves that innervate the mons pubis, clitoral hood, and skin folds of the vulva. And that's in addition to the 10,000 nerve endings on your clitoral glans.
Here we see the 3D rendering of the internal clitoris. The green and pink areas - the corpus cavernosum and corpus spongiosum - are the erectile tissue, the areas that fill up with blood when stimulated by touch or vibration (note that we have as much erectile tissue as a penis but it's inside the body).
The blue area - the venous network - is the vascular system - the veins, that carry the blood to the green and pink areas (the erectile tissue). Note the shape of the internal clitoris and how the wishbone shape cascades down on both sides of the vaginal opening.
The blue, red, pink, green, and yellow areas are distinct branches of the dorsal nerve that innervate different areas of the clitoral glans. If you look at section A, you see the complex nature of each nerve branch. Nothing peeters out; in fact, the nerve branches out and reaches more area.
This is my favorite part of the research. These orange strands cascading down past each side of your internal clitoris (the legs and bulbs of the clitoris) innervate your inner and outer labia. They start above the clitoral glans and extend down on either side of the vaginal opening.
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Dear Miss Betty:
March 1st is the anniversary of my first orgasm and I felt it time to thank you for your role in that. After stumbling upon your website two years ago in dire sexual frustration over my "inability" to orgasm, I was inspired by the empowering nature of the material you and Grant have included and proceeded to lay down to enjoy my own sexual responses. Before I knew it - fireworks! I wept and released years' worth of inadequacy.
My Wife Feels Guilty Looking at Porn
Dear Betty,
I love to look at porn. My wife likes to look at times too but feels guilty. We feel like it is a sin, but enjoy it so much. Do you think porn can ruin a marriage? If I look at porn I feel so guilty. I just love my wife and family so much. Sometimes when my wife finds out I look at porn she is so hurt. Why do men struggle with porn so much. I wish I could just not look at it. Do a lot of men struggle with this? -- J
Dear J,
My Pussy Is Too Tight!
Hi Betty,
I'm a 21 year old who has never had sex. It's not that I haven't tried. But my vagina is so tight that my boyfriend can't penetrate me. I first tried having sex when I was 17 with my boyfriend at that time. We were both inexperienced and after trying various positions, we finally gave up because I was starting to get sore.
Betty's Response to the Vagina Monologues
The first time I saw The Vagina Monologues was in 1996 when it was off, off, off Broadway. Friends of mine who'd seen the play had alerted me that the author and sole performer, Eve Ensler, mentioned my workshops. That evening I sat in a small theater listening to a charming young woman who talked about my Women's Sexuality Workshops with a distorted view of what I'd been doing for over twenty-five years. She called it "The Vagina Workshop." Never in my wildest nightmare would I have ever considered using the word vagina to describe the work I'd been doing.