Most of the vagina lacks nerve endings, undermining vaginal orgasm doctrine

Evidence

The anatomical data are vague. “There is a great deal of anatomic and clinical evidence that most of the interior of the vagina is without nerves,” states, among other things, the Kinsey Report. “A considerable amount of surgery may be performed inside the vagina without need for anesthetics. Nerves have been demonstrated inside the vagina only in an area in the anterior wall, proximate to the base of the clitoris.” However, in addition to the stimulation of this innervated zone, “the female may be conscious of the intrusion of an object into the vagina, particularly if vaginal muscles are tightened; but the satisfaction so obtained is probably related more to muscle tonus than it is to erotic nerve stimulation.” — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 945

Categorization

• QUESTION: Modern clitoral-research findings supersede Kinsey’s; worth tracing how the ‘G-spot’ debate developed from this anterior-wall zone mention.
• CANDY: The fact that vaginal surgery needs no anesthetic because most internal vagina lacks nerves is a striking, conversation-worthy physiological fact.
• XREF: connects to: Female vaginal response is psychophysiological and requires elaborated nervous-system preparation that may never form — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 946; Alienation in reproduction paradoxically reveals consciousness-body union for women — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 110

Broader Connections

• Female vaginal response is psychophysiological and requires elaborated nervous-system preparation that may never form #complicates (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 946
• Alienation in reproduction paradoxically reveals consciousness-body union for women #complicates (0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 110