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jeans. Anyway, I start running and almost immediately I felt an orgasm coming on. My jeans were rubbing and the ring was moving against my clitoris. It was so strong and overwhelmingI had to stop and put my hands on my knees and try to catch my breath. I knew I should keep going—I was still two lanes from the other side, and traffic was coming—but I was coming too. I couldn’t move. I didn’t even care. Can you believe that? It felt so good I didn’t care if I was hit by a speeding car. Obviously, I lived to tell the tale. But, from that moment on, I’ve become an avid runner. And I avoid busy streets. —Michelle, 30
    SELF-SERVICE
    You know how men say that no woman can give a better hand job than they can give themselves? Well, I feel that way about the clitoris. No man can make it feel as good as I can. I can’t give them directions fast enough. How do you tell them how much pressure and when to move to more direct touching while you’re thinking it? They’re always going to be a little later than I want. That can be nice, but it’s not as perfect. Don’t get me wrong, I love having sex with my boyfriend. I like intercourseand he does a good job with oral sex and his hand, but he’ll never be as good as me at getting me off. —Roxanne, 28

    Great Things Come (Ahem) in Small Packages
    The clitoris is a little organ, but it’s not as small as you probably think, you, and much of the world, including the medical establishment. In 1998, Helen O’Connell, M.D., a urological surgeon in Australia, went back to her textbooks and compared the anatomy drawings with the real women she’d operated on. She found that the anatomy diagrams for the female body—the ones she studied in medical school—had glaring defects and omissions. Like a few other doctors before her, she’s proven that the clitoris is a much larger structure than the anatomy textbooks show. During my research, I found only two diagrams of the full clitoral structure done in this century. One was drawn in 1922 and published in the 1949 edition of Atlas of Human Sex Anatomy. Another was published in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery in 1970.
    I knew that the diagrams I saw in the majority of medical textbooks were wrong just by looking at my own body. Thankfully, Dr. O’Connell and other researchers like her are finally correcting them.
    Here’s the truth: underneath the vulva folds, the clitoris and its roots look very much like a penis. The clitoris works very much the same way as the penis. Surprising? Yes. And too true to ignore. Dr. O’Connell explains that the clitoris “is a large structure that wraps around the vagina and the urethra. The external ‘head’ is attached to a ‘body,’ two ‘arms,’ and a mass of erectile tissue, called ‘bulbs’ which, like the penis, swell with blood when aroused.”
    To be clearer, the clitoris is shaped like a wishbone, the top of which is the clitoral glans or head that we can see under the hood when we look at ourselves. This external part of the clitoris can vary in size between a few millimeters to a half-inch. The clitoral head extends an inch or two into the body and then forks into two arms. The two arms of the wishbone are on average about four inches long. They straddle the urethra, running along under the skin where the labia are. From the roots to tip, the average clitoris measures roughly four to six inches long, close to the same size as the average penis.
    For my Safina Salons, I decided to present what I learned in a quiz show format. I wanted to convey the details in a nonthreatening, cheerful way. I shout out a question and give the women in the room a chance to answer. If you get the answer right, you get a little prize (chocolate body paint, sample packets of lubrication, colored condoms). Women who don’t have a clue aren’t put on the spot and aren’t made to feel stupid and inadequate. Stories flow naturally out of the quiz show format. It’s proven to be one of the