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“Pudendum”, a long term for “vulva”, the name for the female outer genitalia, is gone. Pudendum is an emblematic of prejudicial behaviors of women among the traditional medical profession. Because, surprise, “Pudendum” from Latin word ALMIGHTYmeaning “to shame”. Anatomists point out this closest part of a woman’s body as his most disgusting.
But that’s not all. Within hundreds of years, Pudendum is used similar to women out of genitalia. At the time, men who ignore the label, leaving the name and counting more than women.
In this context, almost no wonder many women feel insecure about their genitals. A UK survey found 65 percent of young women had a problem saying “vulva” or “vagina”. Body parts without dare to say their name.
Names are important, as shown in using the Evoloration of the use of Pudendum. Therefore, it to clean from official anatomical terminology in 2019.
But Pudendum is the tip of the iceberg when the male rule of female anatomy. Inside a woman, there is a true frat club of famous gentlemen, in the form of anatomical parts: the body parts named people, almost dead people.
art review In 700 parts of the body named 432 people have found 424 physicians. Eight jars who do not male doctors contain five gods, a king, a hero: Raissa Nitabuch, a name attached to a Wall of uterus after delivery of a child.
This body patriarchy is not surprisingly, given the average date the parts are named is 1847, if women don’t get a lot of our houses. Includes female reproductive real estate, where males are more prevalent.
Gabriele Falloppio is the memorial of the tubes connecting the uterus and ovaries. Skenge’s glands – Alexander Skene – Secrete woman ejaculate in urethra. The “G” of G-Spots Ernst Gräfenberg’s while Bartholin’s glands were young people – nearly opening the vagina and making sexual coconut.
The heritage of masculine within feminen is a reason why there are calls for doctors to avoid eponyms in favor of more technical accurate terminology. Bartholin’s glands are more vestibular glands. Skeen’s glands are the parentheses glands. Fall tubes are uterus tubes.
However eponyms eponyms are often used, by doctors and the public. “Fallopian Tube” does not go out of the vernacular at any time soon. And although epamyms are the frog emerging from relevant body orififes, other unnamed anatomical parts remain.
While Pudendum is the Kaput, the same problem “Pudendal” is another part of the woman, and men, anatomy, in the form of pudendal nerves, arteries, veins and canals. No more of us is close to them.
Unlike vagina. Only one person can be named “Vagina”, from Latin for “Scabbard”. Really a vagina Nothing in the rebrand of cards, but no many people do not forget the league of gentlemen who call other parts of a woman’s reproductive, if they are strongly asked to leave.
As for the pudding nerves, arteries and others, there is only one word to describe their consistency in anatomical lexicon. Shameful.
Adam Taor is the author of Bodypedia: a short part of people’s anatomical curiosities
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