Be Curious About Your Body: Sexuality, Education & Street Art

The clitoris has been largely ignored and misunderstood throughout history. In the 1400s, for example, a guide for finding witches considered the clitoris the “devil’s teat,” and any woman with one was a witch and therefore, condemned to burn to death.

Later came Freud who was convinced that a woman’s ability to feel pleasure was based on her psychological maturity and that was why only mentally healthy women could enjoy sex.

The clitoris took much too long to be discovered and comprehended. It has the unique distinction of being the only organ in the human body dedicated solely to pleasure, its nerves extend all the way to the breasts, it has more nerve endings than the penis and, amazingly and ironically, it has been neglected by science for way too long.

Laura Kingsley is a 24-year-old street artist who began drawing pictures of this female organ everywhere she went, in order to inform people about women's anatomy.

Laura said that the first time a man knew what she was drawing straight away, he shrugged it off and said he only recognised the clitoris because he was a med student.

"We're encouraged to have sex in everything from ads to magazines to movies, but we don't have conversations about real anatomy."