Two anatomy books, open at the sections describing female genital anatomy, are currently on display at the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. Both have been defaced. In Quain and ...

Actress Gillian Anderson made headlines at the 81st Golden Globes on Jan. 7 with a Gabriela Hearst gown that had a unique and subtle detail embroidered on it — namely, a part of the female anatomy.

In the history of sexual anatomy, the clitoris has long been dismissed, demeaned, and misunderstood. (Fun fact: when a French physician dissected this organ for the first time in 1545, he named it ...

In 1895, anatomy officially recognized a pudendal region in both men and women. But 60 years later, only the “pudendum femininum” — the female shame part — was still listed.