CLITORAL COMMUNICATION (Exploring the Bio-edge Book 14)

Join us as we interview the mammalian clitoris, a part private in human eyes but designed for public broadcast – by means of scents – in most species including anthropoid primates. Clitorises in various mammals outdo the human penis in size, reinforcement, complexity and versatility, but may not deserve to be called sexual any more than the nipples on a masculine chest.

LATERAL THOUGHTS IN SEARCH OF EVER MORE INTERESTING STORIES FROM BIOLOGY. Robin and the Honey Badger’s mission is to re-charge biology with originality for you, the non-specialist reader. Here we question the main function of a body part vaunted as the crux of female sexuality. Instead of standing up to scrutiny as the epitome of the erotic, the anatomy of the clitoris - in mammals as diverse as mice, moles, monkeys and a Madagascan male-mimicker – speaks of different designs. For if this peniform organ has one thing on her mind, it is scent production.

EXPLORE THE BIO-EDGE FURTHER WITH ROBIN AND THE HONEY BADGER. Each morning Robin and the Honey Badger wake up to a world of Nature with new curiosity. Which aspects of the natural world have been underlooked? Which adaptations or non-adaptations of organisms have been downplayed because of some theoretical bias? Which observations have yet to be integrated because of interdisciplinary timidity? How laterally can we think as we cruise the bewildering diversity of life forms on Earth? Join us in our mission of Exploring the Bio-edge in a series of e-essays that fearlessly - but accurately - cover all corners of biology.