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Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time

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Re: Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time

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Post by xtajv »

turkey99 wrote: post #27
Shank wrote: post #12

Page 7 [0] of the report seems to indicate that FGM reconstruction actually seems to have negative outcomes post-surgery. I'm surprised by this. I'm also shocked to see how prolific FGM is too (230 million women?!). [0]: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.18.712572v1...

Male genital mutilation is very common

(Nonconsensual) genital mutilation is bad no matter who you are or what parts you have.

Also: If pain becomes a contest, we're all losers.

Also: Thank you for complaining. There is much to complain about. There's so much to complain about that we can sit in a circle and take turns complaining and everybody will probably learn something.

Re: Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time

#142

Post by xtajv »

xtajv wrote: post #141
turkey99 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Male genital mutilation is very common

(Nonconsensual) genital mutilation is bad no matter who you are or what parts you have. Also: If pain becomes a contest, we're all losers. Also: Thank you for complaining. There is much to complain about. There's so much to complain about that we can sit in a circle and take turns complaining and everybody will probably learn something.

Spot to complain about male genital mutilation:

Re: Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time

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Post by xtajv »

xtajv wrote: post #141
turkey99 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Male genital mutilation is very common

(Nonconsensual) genital mutilation is bad no matter who you are or what parts you have. Also: If pain becomes a contest, we're all losers. Also: Thank you for complaining. There is much to complain about. There's so much to complain about that we can sit in a circle and take turns complaining and everybody will probably learn something.

Spot to complain about female genital mutilation:

Re: Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time

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Post by xtajv »

xtajv wrote: post #141
turkey99 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Male genital mutilation is very common

(Nonconsensual) genital mutilation is bad no matter who you are or what parts you have. Also: If pain becomes a contest, we're all losers. Also: Thank you for complaining. There is much to complain about. There's so much to complain about that we can sit in a circle and take turns complaining and everybody will probably learn something.

Spot to complain about intersex genital mutilation:

Re: Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time

#145

Post by xtajv »

xtajv wrote: post #141
turkey99 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Male genital mutilation is very common

(Nonconsensual) genital mutilation is bad no matter who you are or what parts you have. Also: If pain becomes a contest, we're all losers. Also: Thank you for complaining. There is much to complain about. There's so much to complain about that we can sit in a circle and take turns complaining and everybody will probably learn something.

Spot to complain that I missed a spot:

(P.S. you can also add a new thread)

Re: Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time

#146

Post by xtajv »

xtajv wrote: post #142
xtajv wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(Nonconsensual) genital mutilation is bad no matter who you are or what parts you have. Also: If pain becomes a contest, we're all losers. Also: Thank you for complaining. There is much to complain about. There's so much to complain about that we can sit in a circle and take turns complaining and everybody will probably learn something.

Spot to complain about male genital mutilation:

My understanding is that (nonconsensual) circumcision of infants is quite common in some regions of the planet, and that some impacted individuals wish that this decision had not been made for them without their consent.

That seems bad.

Re: Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time

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Post by nineteen999 »

LoganDark wrote: post #107
benj111 wrote: post #67

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I don't particularly agree with the OP but from my European pov, male circumcision doesn't seem to have negative connotations, certainly not in the US. Negative connotations and actual negativity are two separate things. Alcohol tends not to have negative connotations whereas things that are better for your health and less addictive, cannabis, magic mushrooms, have negative connotations.

What? That practice is absolutely terrible. Many people just have no idea about it, and then their offspring might grow up with terrible shame or something if they ever learn what was taken from them. Alcohol is also terrible. Nicotine is terrible. Even caffeine can be terrible if you become too dependent on it without realizing. Harm reduction is a thing that can make things less terrible but most users don't practi…

> Which is pretty much how morals are decided these days, especially for the non-autistic / "neurotypical" population

Give it a break. Nothing isolates "neurodivergent" people from the rest of society faster than treating neurotypical people as a morally inferior out-group.

Re: Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time

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Post by mcdeltat »

Mordisquitos wrote: post #23
Fraterkes wrote: post #10

Dumb question, why do “sensitive” spots on the body need more nerves? Couldn’t you just have the normal touch-sensing nerves and map signals from specific spots on the body to stronger/pleasurable qualia in the brain?

Not a dumb question. The shortest (and at a glance unsatisfactory) answer is because it works, and therefore it evolved that way. Going in detail, first consider that for a feature to be evolutionarily selected for two things have to be true: 1. It must increase the fitness of the organism that carries it, i.e. the likelihood of its carrier having descendants as compared to non-carriers ( or be a side effect of anoth…

> mapping of specific nerves to intensity of feeling on the CNS would imply complex hardcoding of something which is much easier to solve with "this place important, have more nerves"

Not saying your answer is right or wrong, but I don't think this is a sufficient explanation. If the body can differentiate areas enough to produce more nerves in one area, then it could plausibly instead produce fewer nerves which inherently produce a stronger signal - just as we have nerves which respond differently to different stimuli (e.g. heat, light, etc). Also it could be neither and we kinda randomly ended up with what we have because no option was strongly disadvantageous at the time.

Re: Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time

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Post by ciupicri »

tbossanova wrote: post #112
austin-cheney wrote: post #103

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The severity of harm is highly subjective, though I do agree with you about the harm. The more important thing is the intent, which completely underscores that severity.

Main is also an easier name for beginners. I’m old school and always got the comparison of master branch to master tapes and such things, but people new to this stuff wouldn’t necessarily have the same intuition about the name. Main is just clearer (for now). Similar to blacklist/whitelist. I had no context for either of those and it took me soooooo long to remember what they meant. Allowlist/denylist is just so much…

This master tape thing didn't even cross my mind. subversion used trunk. git used master which sounded way better for me. End of story. They're just words, non-native words for me.

As for whitelist and blacklist, I don't remember having any difficulties with them. Maybe on the first encounter, but that's it.

Re: Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time

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Post by thomastjeffery »

saagarjha wrote: post #130
thomastjeffery wrote: post #51

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Surgery is essentially mutilation, just with a lot of effort to get the patient a positive outcome. Hopefully, this information will help.

I don't see how this provides any useful context.

The information for where nerve endings are likely to be will probably help surgeons give their patients a better outcome.
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