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Episode 6: What is clit feminism? with sexologist Mal Harrison.We talk with Mal Harrison, director of the Institute for Erotic Intelligence, who gives us a brief history of the clitoris and talks about the importance of eroticism. The clitoris has a long history of discovery and rediscovery-dating back to the 16th century, with notable discoveries in the 1700s and 1840s with Georg Ludwig Kobelt. In more recent history, scientific research was published showing the full size of the clitoris\u2019s internal structure. In 1998, urologist Dr. Helen O\u2019Connell concluded that \u201ccurrent anatomical descriptions of female human urethral and genital anatomy are inaccurate.\u201d In 2003, Dr. Claire C. Yang published the first MRI imagery of the clitoris and then in 2008, researchers Dr. Odile Buisson and Dr. Pierre Fold\xe8s provided the first 3-D sonogram of the internal clitoris. Even to this day, most anatomy texts don\u2019t show the full scope of the clitoris and only compare it to male anatomy. In 2011, Mal wrote about the internal structure of the clitoris in her column for the Museum of Sex.