It’s often described as the “female pleasure center”—and now a new study has revealed that the clitoris is even more sensitive than we thought. Researchers from Oregon Health & Science University have completed the first-known count of nerve fibers in the erogenous zone, finding the clitoris contains over 10,000 nerve fibers—20% more than previously estimated. “It’s startling to think about more than 10,000 nerve fibers being concentrated in something as small as the clitoris,” said the study’s lead author.
The clitoris is the only human organ with the sole purpose of providing pleasure; it’s made up of nerves that carry electrical impulses between the brain and the rest of the body, which enable women to feel and respond to touch. “Even though the hand is many, many times larger than the clitoris, the median nerve only contains about 18,000 nerve fibers, or fewer than two times the nerve fibers that are packed into the much-smaller clitoris,” the author said. The team now hopes to study and count the nerve fibers in the glans penis—the tip of the penis—which is known to induce pleasure in men.
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