According to new research, the bottlenose dolphin has a large clitoris that is better suited for coital pleasure than humans.
The clitoris is visible from the north, but it is hidden under the skin or under the vagina.
The dolphin clitoris' head is a little larger and is located near the vagina entrance. The whole organ has an 'S'-shaped bend in it, which suggests it can stick out even further when erected.
Experts say it would be hard for a dolphin penis to avoid copulation.
The dolphin clitoris has many features that suggest it functions to provide pleasure to females, according to biologists.
It seemed likely that the clitoris could be functional, since we knew that dolphins have sex to reproduce, but also to solidify social bonds.
A computer reconstruction of a dolphin's clitoris. ara Orbach is a student at Mount Holyoke College.
We don't know a lot about the human clitoris and we don't know a lot about the other mammals.
Female dolphins are known to copulate all year round, but only occasionally are they ovulating. The species mates for more than just reproduction.
In the wild, bottlenose dolphins rub their clitorises and penises with their snouts, flippers, and flukes in group orgies.
In sexual interactions between only females, direct stimulation of the clitoris has been observed.
We can't use a dolphin's brain to see if it's having fun, so researchers have turned to the clitoris for answers.
The team found an abundance of blood vessels and nerve endings in the clitoris of the dolphins that they scanned.
The dolphin clitoris has glans that are enclosed in a hood. The tip of the organ in a dolphin can swell with blood when aroused, because the hood becomes wrinkled.
The clitoral nerves were found to be closely traced, which is an indication of orgasm function in humans.
Brennan says it was surprising to see how similar the shapes were to humans.
The size of the nerves in the clitoris body was surprising. Some were larger than half a millimeter.
The findings could help explain why dolphins have been seen masturbating on the sandy floor. Some people have been caught using dead fish or wriggling eels.
Dolphin sex has drawn the interest of researchers for a long time. The dolphin penis has been the subject of a lot of research, with experts looking at how it fits with the dolphin vagina.
The dolphin clitoris has been overlooked. That's the case for most mammals.
"Only a small amount of information is known about female reproductive morphology in most wild vertebrate species," said researcher Dara Orbach when announcing the preliminary results of her dolphin dissection in 2019.
This research gives a framework to explore other sex functions that are not unique to humans.
Female pleasure among mammals might tell us how to use sexual pleasure to our advantage. It takes at least two to tango, and if we ignore this side of sex, we will only get half the picture.
The study was published in a journal.
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