Q In your book, Come As You Are, you talk about how males and females have more similar parts than we're used to thinking about. Can you expand on that?
A Sure. The thing I say over and over, I think in literally every chapter of the book, is that we're all made of the same parts, just organized in different ways. And one of the reasons why, for example, I think it's so important to differentiate between the vagina and the vulva is because the names we call things Shapes how we think about it, right? So, uh, if I was trying to explain to you what your face was and how your face works, and I was using the word nose, you'd get really confused because your nose is one prominent feature, but they'd be missing a whole lot of other parts, right? So when we use the language of vagina, we're talking about one feature, right? And ignoring a whole bunch of other important parts, like the clitoris. So the clitoris is the biological homologue coming from the original, the same origin. Same origin, not same function. That's an important difference. So the clitoris is the biological homologue of the penis. But more crucially, the external part of the clitoris, the glans clitoris. Glans is the Latin word for acorn. No, I don't know why. Why that's the word they, I guess. But it's the homologue for the glands penis, which is just the head of the penis. Is the head of the penis all there is to the penis?
AI assessment note: “we're all made of the same parts, just organized in different ways.”