How big is the clitoris? Where exactly is it located? And how is it structured? If you’re unsure, you’re not alone. Many medical professionals struggle to answer these questions with confidence. This isn’t due to a lack of curiosity on an individual level, but rather a structural problem: Key organs of the female body have long been studied far less thoroughly than their male counterparts. Take the penis, for example — the clitoris’s male counterpart. Both share the same embryological origin, contain erectile tissue, become engorged during arousal and play a central role in sexual pleasure. Yet most people can readily answer questions such as "How big is a penis?" or "How is it anatomically structured?" Those answers, after all, are standard material in biology textbooks . Mapping the clitoris in 3D A new 3D study from the Netherlands is now helping to close some of these long‑standing knowledge gaps.…