Notices by Vagina Museum (vagina_museum@masto.ai), page 3

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Most people are not aware that penises usually have bones. Most mammals have a penis bone, called a baculum. The reason most people don't know this is because humans are weirdos in the animal kingdom and do NOT have a baculum.

Even though most primates have a baculum, humans don't have one. This has puzzled biologists for years, and tons of theories abound as to why humans lost their dick bones. But we're a Vagina Museum, we're not interested in *that*.

We hope nobody needs to hear this today, but 📢 vaginas do not have a bone 📢

However, clitorises do, in most animals. It's time to bone up on the baubellum, also known as the os clitoridis.

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The journey of an average Vagina Museum follower:
Day 1: Gee willickers, I learned an exciting fact about pubic hair today!
Day 10: I am forming a riot punk band called Baubellum and the Gropecunt Lanes.

Word of the day: HEMICLITORES. This refers to the pair of clitorises found in reptiles such as lizards and snakes. Yes, they get to have two.

We challenge you to use this word in conversation today. Hard mode: not in the context of explaining that snakes have two clits.

Also, please note that "clitores" is a plural of "clitoris". So is "clitorises" or "clitorides". "Clitori" is never correct because English is a pile of other languages stacked up in a trenchcoat and scientific language is even more guilty of this.

OP is quite correct in their understanding that the glans of the clitoris has 10,000 nerve endings. The 8,000 nerve endings figure is a myth based on cow clitorises (more on this here: https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum/109478463013137768)

Braille, for those of you who do not know this, is a tactile writing system consisting of raised characters which is usually read by the fingers. However, if a braille reader does not have fingers, they can read using other parts of the body, often the toes or the lips.

In this regard, it would be perfectly possible to read braille with the clitoral glans, as braille does not inherently require fingers to read. However, there is a major caveat to this.

The first problem with reading braille using your clitoral glans is one of distraction by becoming immediately very turned on. The clitoris is made from erectile tissue. When you're aroused, it becomes erect, and applies pressure to itself, the vagina and the urethra. Rubbing the glans can provoke this response. It would therefore make reading difficult, although not impossible if you set your mind to it.

First of all, it is important to establish parameters on the scope of this question. It is in fact two questions: can you read braille with your clitoris, and does this impact reading speed?

For the purpose of answering this question, we will assume that the OP means the clitoral glans. The glans is the only part of the clitoris which sticks out. The rest of it is beneath the skin of the vulva. Here's what the whole organ looks like; the glans is at the top.

We've been receiving a lot of requests for us to answer this crucial question, and we are delighted to attempt to provide you with the information you need as to whether you can read braille with your clit.

Screenshot via @skinnylatte

Sadly, Edward Wagner was a common enough name that it's hard to unpack whether he made it back to his home planet. We hope he did, because the 19th century had enough inflatable vaginal gadgets as it was.

At the end of the day, the Vaginal Appliance sounds as uncomfortable as it is convoluted to use. But at least it isn't a douche.

The way Svejnar's Vaginal Appliance worked is this: you pop it in the vagina and then inflate it using the little squeezy bulb. The lower illustration is what it looks like collapsed, and the upper image shows it inflated while in use as a period product. Rather than cutting out the middle man and having the bit inside the vagina collecting menstrual blood, the inflatable gadget instead has a tube leading to a receptacle worn on a belt to hold the blood.

So if the Vaginal Appliance isn't a douche, what is it? We're glad you asked. It does everything, apparently. It treats "diseases of the generative organs" including prolapse, haemorrhage and unusual discharge. It also doubles up as a "catamenial applicance" - a euphemism used at the time for menstrual products.

Nevertheless, you get a pat on the head for at least *trying* to illustrate the object for interfacing with a vagina inside the vagina, Anton Svejnar. That's more than we can usually say.

There's two things which we're grudgingly impressed about with this application. Firstly, somewhat unusually for an era that simply could not get enough of douching, this doohickey is NOT a douche. And secondly, the patent drawings include an illustration of the Vaginal Appliance in a vagina. Okay, it's not a very good drawing of a vagina. In fact, it's a pretty bad drawing of a vagina. It's the bit on the left in the top drawing, showing the device inside with a tube coming out.