(Rohitha Naraharisetty/ The Swaddle) — The joke goes that the clitoris, the body’s most sensitive erogenous organ, is hard to find in general. A familiar and sad refrain is cis-men are clueless about how to navigate bodies that aren’t similar to their own. But it turns out, science was lagging behind too, in a manner of speaking. A study published on Monday in JNeurosci reported that for the first time, scientists identified the brain region that responds to clitoral stimulation.

Prior to this study, research had not understood exactly which region in the brain was linked to female genitalia. “It’s completely understudied, how the female genitals are represented in the somatosensory cortex in humans, and whether it has at all the capacity to change in relation to experience or use,” co-author Christine Heim, director of the Institute of Medical Psychology, Berlin, told AFP. (…)

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