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• Longest human clitoris
• Longest (animal) clitoris

Clitoris size has only rarely been of importance in human society.

A few communities -- Ford and Beach mention the Easter Islanders -- have favoured the large clitoris and some natives have tried with varying degrees of success to enlarge this organ in their girls. For the most part however, with a prevailing indifference in the nineteenth-century and early part of the twentieth-century to sexual arousal in women, the clitoris has been neglected. Needless to say, it varies in size.

The clitoris of the female whale is about 8 cm. long. Its apex is said to be "triloped" and is directed backwards. The whale clitoris, in common with the other sex organs of the largest cetaceans, are the biggest of any animal.

Many other species have organs large for their body size, and in a number of species there is a long clitoris. We have already noted the large clitoris in the hyaena and the spider monkey. It is also surprisingly long in the mole (in the non-breeding season it is as long as the penis). In cats and civets the clitoris is a

Like men, women were also forced to undergo spinal and genital cauterisation and to wear chastity belts in a vain attempt to prevent masturbation.

Krafft-Ebing refers to a girl who "at the age of ten was giving up to the most revolting vices." e.g. masturbation. He adds that "Even a white hot iron applied to the clitoris had no effect in overcoming this practice."

See:

• Largest human penis
• Largest penis in animal kingdom

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The Illustrated Book of Sexual Records is a compilation of well over 400 sexual superlatives from all around the world.

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