The clitoris is 12cm long and there’s no such thing as a virgin hymen… the things you never knew about down there
Nina Brochmann and Ellen Stokken Dahl are keen to reveal the true facts and educate women on their bodies
TWO young female doctors have set out to educate women about their vaginas.
Norwegian medics Nina Brochmann, 30, and Ellen Stokken Dahl, 26, want to bust body myths in their new book, .
“We were sexual education teachers and we were spreading the same old myths,” Nina told .
Ellen added: “We misled women by following a medical curriculum that was incorrect even though it was written by doctors. That’s the reason we wrote this book. We started to question these ‘truths’ that get handed down.”
The pair says the biggest myth surrounds the hymen, which, for millennia, has been used to judge women’s ‘purity’.
Present sexual education programmes describe the hymen as some sort of membrane.
But the pair point out that the hymen is a seal formed in female embryos - and that it dissolves before birth, leaving a residual ring.
If a girl has a hymen that looks anything like a ‘seal’ they have a serious medical problem.
The pair have also debunked myths that the clitoris is just a “little knob”.
Nina commented: “It was only really quite far into medical school we realised it was this huge organ.”
Nina and Ellen's findings
- The hymen dissolves in the womb
- The clitoris is 7-12cm long
- The 'G-spot' is feeling the clitoris from within
- Women can have 'morning glory too'
- Eggs also compete in the fertilisation process
The clitoris is about 7cm to 12cm long and extends under the skin in the shape of a wishbone. The G-spot is actually just feeling the giant clitoris from within.
The pair has also discovered that women have seven or eight clitoral erections while they sleep, and often have ‘morning glory’ just like men do.
In school biology classes, teachers usually say that the egg waits to be fertilised, while millions of sperm compete to claim it.
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In fact, to be fertilised the egg itself must also compete with a thousand other eggs within the ovaries to win the first prize of ovulation.
Nina said: “We are so happy to view the female as the passive sex, receiving the male.
"It’s very easy to talk about the heroic sperm, rushing off into the battlefield to reach the waiting maiden. But the egg is herself an athlete, she is the best egg.”
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And, a photographer has captured women’s ‘orgasm faces’ before, during and after they climax in intimate photo series.