If you followed last month adventures you know that I went to Edinburgh to attend the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV conference.
It obviously was great, and filled with discussions about practices, innovations and also professional needs in terms of models. What was mostly required is anus/rectum models for learning how to detect cancerous signs. I am all about helping to develop it but can’t do that on my own. If you are interested, you know where to find me.
What really got me going though is when I visited the Edinburgh Surgeons’ Hall museum. Great place, super nice staff, and lot of specimens with pathologies…All was nice and smooth until I went and examined the female uro-genital anatomy modelisation on the 3D program that was available on site. Guess what? The clitoris was not represented in it’s entirety. Only the glan was there. We are talking about a museum that is dedicated to human anatomy and a whole organ is missing. I am not pointing fingers at this museum because they were actually nice when I told them and it is not the first time I have seen it happening. But we are still using models and programs which do not represent accurately female genital anatomy in its most basic form.
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