Snakes have clitorises, scientists say, slamming gender bias in animal research

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Snakes have clitorises, scientists say, slamming gender bias in animal research
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Female snakes have clitorises, according to the first detailed study on the subject, in which the scientists lashed out at how little female sex organs have been researched compared to males across species.

However comparatively little research on the subject has been carried out, as in the case for the clitorises of pretty much all animals — including humans.

Megan Folwell, a PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide in Australia and the new study’s lead author, told AFP she started off by analyzing the hemiclitores of a common death adder. They found that snakes have two individual clitorises — hemiclitores — separated by tissue and hidden by skin on the underside of the tail.Some are quite thin while others take up almost all the area around the cloaca, the tiny opening for the digestive, urinary and reproductive tract. Sizes ranged from less than a millimeter to seven millimeters.

If the snakes’ hemiclitores are stimulated during sex, it likely prompts longer and more frequent mating, resulting in a greater chance of reproductive success.It could lead to lubrication to prevent damage from the “very spiny hemipenis” of male snakes, she said, adding that “we don’t know”.“It’s quite a taboo subject, female genitalia is not the easiest topic to bring up and be respected,” Folwell said.

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