Sex organ
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"The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species."--The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci |
Illustration: Fashionable Contrasts (1792) by James Gillray.
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A sex organ, or primary sexual characteristic, narrowly defined, is any of those anatomical parts of the body (which are not always bodily organs according to the strict definition) which are involved in sexual reproduction and constitute the reproductive system in a complex organism; namely:
- Male: penis , prepuce, testicles, scrotum, prostate.
- Female: vulva (notably the clitoris), labia, vagina, cervix, uterus, Skene's gland.
The Latin term genitalia, sometimes anglicized as genitals, is used to describe the sex organs, and in the English language this term and genital area are most often used to describe the externally visible sex organs, known as primary genitalia or external genitalia: in males the penis and scrotum, in females the vulva.
The other sex organs are called the secondary genitalia or internal genitalia. An even wider notion, subjective but always prominently including the genitalia, is erogenous zones.
See also
- Castration
- Circumcision
- Erogenous zone
- Genital modification and mutilation
- Human sexuality
- Hysterectomy
- Intersexuality
- Intimate parts
- List of transgender-related topics
- Mastectomy
- Obstetrics and gynaecology
- On the beauty of the human genitalia
- Oophorectomy
- Secondary sex characteristics
- Sex
- Human sexual behavior
- Sexual intercourse
- List of sex positions
In art
- The Origin of the World (1866) by Gustave Courbet
- On the beauty of the human genitalia
- Metamorphic Genitalia and Fantastical Sexual Images, a project by Paul Rumsey and Jan Willem Geerinck
