Australia: Scientists find clitoris on female snakes

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The discovery of the clitoris in snakes suggests there may be seduction and pleasure in the mating process.

Scientists have found that snakes do have clitoris, shattering a long-held assumption that females lack sex organs.

The research published Wednesday provides the first anatomically correct descriptions of the genitals of female snakes.

Snake penises – hemipenis – have been studied for decades. They are forked and some have spikes.

But the female sex organ had been “neglected in comparison”, according to the researchers.

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