Adult Sex Ed for Women w/ Dr. Maria Sophocles | Szn. 5 Ep. 11

What about clitoral adhesions?

Right.

So the clitoris, hold on two seconds.

I'm going to grab something from five feet away.

I just want to grab it.

I left it out of reach by mistake.

So the clitoris has, this is a little puppet.

Hello.

And this big giant thing is the clitoral hood and the clitoris is underneath, right? So this is your vagina.

If it was velvet and satin, labia majora, the big lips, labia minora, the thin little lips, they're made kind of big here.

That's actually the opening to the bladder, right? That's why women can get urinary tract infections when all this area doesn't have enough estrogen.

That's the vagina.

But the clitoris is, it looks like just a small little nubbin.

Yet, we know the clitoris is quite large.

It's internal, much like an iceberg.

We only see, if we even do see, this little nubbin.

Most of the clitoris is in our body.

But make no mistake, it's every bit as powerful as a penis.

It's shaped much like a penis with two kind of bulbs inside.

It's kind of wild how we only think of it as this.

The clitoris has a covering.

We call this the hood.

And adhesions or scar tissue can form in here, in between the clitoris and the hood.

Why do we care about that? Because if you have clitoral adhesions, it means when you're aroused and the clitoris is happy and trying to actually move, we do get our own little erection.

I think most women don't even know that.