Like women, female dolphins have a functional clitoris that is likely to arouse feelings of sexual pleasure, US scientists have discovered for the first time. The finding is based on the discovery that the anatomical structure that resembles the female clitoris and is located at the entrance to the rhinoceros vagina, has many sensory nerves and erectile tissues that can be stimulated.
The researchers, led by Assistant Professor of Biology Patricia Brennan of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts and published in the journal Current Biology, carefully studied the clitoris of 11 dead dolphins and analyzed their shape and nerves. its tissues, concluded that it is a normal functional clitoris.
Dolphins are very social and have sex all year round, thus “building” stronger social bonds. Females have been observed to have a clitoris in their vagina and there have also been reports of females rubbing each other’s clitoris with their muzzle or fins.
New study confirms that the clitoris acts as a source of pleasure for dolphins. As Brennan said, “Every time we dissected a dolphin vagina, we could see this very large clitoris and we were curious to look at it in detail to see if it works like the human clitoris. We knew dolphins had sex not just for reproduction. “but also to have stronger social ties, so it seemed possible that the clitoris was functional.”
“The dolphin’s clitoris has many characteristics that show that it works to provide pleasure to females. Just like the human clitoris, the dolphin’s clitoris has large areas of erectile tissue that fill with blood,” Brennan said. As he said, the erectile characteristics of dolphins’s clitoris are “unexpectedly similar” to those in humans. In fact, he added, “the size of dolphin’s clit nerves is very impressive. Some are larger than half a millimeter in diameter.”
The researchers also pointed out that in general the clitoris and the sexual pleasure of female animals in nature have been little studied so far. In fact, even the human clitoris was not fully studied until the 1990s.
Brennan stressed that “this omission in the study of female sexuality has left us with an incomplete picture of the true nature of sexual behavior. The study and understanding of sexual behavior in nature is an essential part of understanding the experience of animals and can it even has medical applications in the future “.
The researchers will continue to study the clitoris and genitals of dolphins, as well as other vertebrate animals, to fill the existing scientific gap.
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