A twitter thread is going viral on social media for elaborating that how all the reproductive parts of women are named after men. The handle, which goes by the name ‘VaginaMuseum’, has listed out name of doctors after whom the female reproductive parts were named to mark the International Men’s Day.
The thread categorically mentions that “there are no parts of the gynaecological anatomy named after women.”
The thread states that Gabriele Falloppio is the namesake of Fallopian Tubes, the tubes between ovaries and uterus. It went ahead to mention that Caspar Bartholin The Younger is the namesake of Bartholin’s Glands.
“The glands on either side of the vaginal opening which lubricate the vagina during arousal. You can also call them the greater vestibular glands,” it stated.
The thread said that the ‘G-Spot’ has been named after Ernst Grafenberg, who, the thread claimed, was not the actual ‘discoverer’ of the sensitive spot. It said that the scientist who, in reality, found the G-spot is Regnier De Graaf.
"Gräfenberg didn't actually "discover" the G-spot at all, someone else in this thread has a better claim to first writing it up. He did, however, invent the first widely-used IUD," the threat stated.
“He (Graaf) was one of the first to describe female ejaculation and the sensitive spot on vaginal front wall which became known as the G-spot, after an entirely different physician beginning with G (Ernst Grafenberg).
The thread went to inform about the female reproductive parts such as pouch of Douglas, Müllerian ducts, Skene's glands among others.
On the history of gynaecology, it said that John Marion Sims, the so-called "father of modern gynaecology" undertook human experimentation on enslaved Black women. A keen sculptor, Alexander Skene made a bust of his pal. Sadly, the history of gynaecology is NOT made up of nice people.”
“And that's all the men after whom your bits, some of which are very, very specific indeed, are named,” the handle mentions at the end of the thread.