The story of V : a natural history of female sexuality by Blackledge Catherine 1968-

Author:Blackledge, Catherine, 1968-
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sexuality, Women's Studies - History, Psychology, Health/Fitness, Health & Fitness, Women, Vagina, Sexual behavior, Gender Studies, Human Sexuality, Generative organs, Female, History
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press
Published: 2004-09-05T16:00:00+00:00

THE STORY OF V

the techniques too. Typically this involves the male stimulating the female externally, and not just genitally, before she is ready to receive him internally. Singing, tapping, thrusting, rubbing, vibrating, licking, feeding: males have multiple manoeuvres and call into play many parts of their anatomy - mouthparts, vocal cords, fake phalluses and the real thing - in their bid to persuade the female to desire sexual interaction and hence to have the best shot at making sex an evolutionary success. As highlighted in the previous chapter, male mites and ticks must perform many minutes, sometimes hours of oral stimulation of the female's genitals. Moving their mouthparts against her genitalia causes them to swell, allowing the male to insert his spermatophore. Likewise the sine qua non for many male insects, including beetle and wasps, involves innervating a female's genitalia by tapping her near her genital orifice. Song is the innervation stimulus for the female Caribbean fruit fly - but it has to be composed of the correct sound pressure levels.

Mammals too have to stimulate external female genitalia prior to penetration. Female rabbits, as has been revealed before, require up to seventy rhythmic constant-amplitude, high-frequency extra-vaginal thrusts from the buck if they are to assume the lordosis position necessary for intercourse to occur. Similarly, tactile stimulation of the female is a key component in female rats assuming lordosis. Here, the male rat must palpate the female's flanks with his paws, together with making pelvic thrusting movements against her perineum. When in oestrus, such sensory input fired off to the female's brain stem results in the lordotic response. Male primates too routinely make a series of rapid and shallow extravaginal thrusts before the vagina envelopes the penis. They also use their fingers, mouths and whatever else comes to hand to stimulate external female genitalia.

The necessity of clitoral stimulation is also underlined by the peculiar genitalia of a particular species of bird - the buffalo weaver {Bubalornis niger). And this time, it's very clear how essential clitoral stimulation is to both females and males. Like other birds, both female and male buffalo weavers urinate, defecate and reproduce via a cloaca. For females, the cloaca also serves as an oviduct for the expulsion of eggs, while for the male, it is the channel through which sperm is ejected (the male does not have a penis). However, somewhat startlingly, both sexes of this weaver bird possess a clitoris - in essence, a projection of erectile tissue. In males this organ measures 15.7 mm, while the female's is 6.1 mm.

Mesmerisingly, weaver bird copulation is characterised by lengthy mutual clitoral rubbing - with the male buffalo weaver mounting from behind and rubbing his clitoris up against the female's clitoris. These mounting bouts can last up to twenty-nine minutes, and at the end the male experiences what has been described as an orgasm, with his wing

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