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De organisatie, genaamd Clitoraid, bestaat sinds 2006 en vertelt waarom het belangrijk is aandacht te vragen voor dit gevoelige stukje van het vrouwelijke geslachtsdeel.
“Onze eerste zes jaar stonden in het teken van het helpen van vrouwen die slachtoffer zijn geworden van genitale verminking. Dit jaar vieren we het seksuele plezier van alle vrouwen, omdat zij allemaal kunnen profiteren van meer seksuele waardering.” Op 8 oktober zullen we ’s werelds eerste ziekenhuis openen dat volledig gericht is op het herstellen van de clitoris”, aldus woordvoerster Nadine Gary.
Bewustzijn
Een ander doel van Clitoraid is het creëren van meer bewustzijn over de clitoris. “Ze is tientallen jaren genegeerd, belasterd, tot taboe gemaakt, beschouwd als een zonde en iets waar vrouwen zich voor moeten schamen”, zegt Gary. “Het is nu tijd om dit prachtige orgaan de aandacht te geven die ze verdient. Het is het enige menselijke orgaan dat enkel en alleen dient voor seksueel genot!”
Taboe
Het is niet toevallig dat de Clitoris Awareness Week in mei valt, dat uitgeroepen is tot National Masturbation Month. “Er is een taboe rondom seksualiteit”, meent de woordvoerster. “Wij willen dat wegnemen en erover praten. Misschien bezoeken sommige vrouwen wel masturbatielezingen. We willen vrouwen aanmoedigen om over hun seksualiteit te praten en het te vieren.”
De kick-off van de Clitoris Awareness Week vindt plaats in Las Vegas, waar leden van Clitoraid verkleed als vagina informatieve flyers uitdelen.
Bron: Clitoraid
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"Clitoraid is proud to announce its first annual International Clitoris Awareness Week,May 6 to May 12," said Nadine Gary , Clitoraid spokesperson, in a statement released today.
"Our first six years of humanitarian work have been dedicated to surgically repairing clitorises for female genital mutilation [FGM] victims, and on October 8 we'll open the world's first Clitoral Restoration Hospital," Gary said. "This year, we'll celebrate the sexual pleasure of all women, since all can benefit from more sexual appreciation."
She said another Clitoraid mission is to raise public awareness about the clitoris.
Consciousness
"It's been ignored, vilified, made taboo, and considered sinful and shameful for centuries because of patriarchal religious values," Gary said. "It's time to give this beautiful organ the attention it deserves. It's the only human organ with an exclusive sexual pleasure function!"
We don't need to go far back in history to see why Western women still experience sexual guilt, she said.
"In the 19th century, 'nymphomania' was considered a disease," Gary said. "Maybe it still is! Masturbation was thought to cause jaundice, blindness and premature death, and doctors even believed that sexual arousal destroys a woman's mental balance. The clitoris was declared the source of these purported problems, and in 1865, the president of the British Medical Society recommended clitoral excision as a cure for illnesses like epilepsy and hysteria. Amazingly, scientists didn't really research the clitoris until the 21st century. Dr. Helen O'Connell, an Australian urologist, finally mapped it in all its voluptuous splendor 8 years ago by using an MRI device."
Gary pointed out that the clitoris boasts the most nerve endings of any human body organ: about 8,000. (The penis has about 5,000.)
"Dr. O'Connell's work shows that the clitoris reaches 8 inches in length," she said. "Its highly pleasurable erectile tissue is wrapped around the vulva like two magnificent arches. That's why we can surgically restore a clitoris whose tip has been mutilated."
For International Clitoris Awareness Week, Clitoraid is inviting women to organize special events.
"Whether through educational lectures, art exhibits, songs and dance, or a 'girl's night' of sharing, each woman can celebrate sexual beauty the way she chooses," Gary said. "Sexual expression brings self-esteem and inner balance, so let's revere the clitoris in all its glory while completely free of shame and guilt!"
By having a clitoral orgasm, a large amount of oxytocin is released. This hormone is not at all essential to conceive, but is needed to regulate hormone levels impaired by stress and/or the menstrual cycle. Oxytocin deficiency enhances stress, obesity and psychotic behavior, impairs cognitive functions and increases breast-cancer risk (I see nothing here discussing these very important scientific facts...am I missing something here or is Clitoraid only interested in the sexual satisfaction side of clitoral orgasms!!).
ReplyDeleteClitoral orgasms do not serve conception, and are not obtained through sexual intercourse. Clitoral orgasms serve physical health, and pleasure, and are obtained through specific clitoric stimulus. Orgasms enhanced by intense sexual fantasies and a capable and compatible partner, increase oxytocin release the most. REPEAT: Orgasms enhanced by intense sexual fantasies and a capable and compatible partner, increase oxytocin release the most. If Clitoraid can't do a better job of bringing important medical facts to women, then they should go pitch their tents at local city Fantasy Fests with the rest of the clowns. Breasts cancer awareness is so much in the forefront with women today, why can't this group make the link.
From the very beginning, living in groups separate from men, women had all the cuddling and grooming and clitoric orgasms they needed. As long as there have been women, they knew how to sexually satisfy themselves. Not until the seventies in the last century, were women ever sexually satisfied by men (that's the time I gave my wife the 1st orgasms of her life at age 25). In the whole scheme of things, this is a very short time indeed, so the awareness needs to continue today but in it's COMPLETE updated version.