The size of your 'lady bean' may be key to sexual function after surgery

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It has been called 'hard to find', but it seems once again the world has underappreciated the importance of the 'lady bean' to women's sex lives. US researchers have discovered that the size of a woman's 'little man in the boat' might be key to sexual function after pelvic surgery. The researchers say that up till now there was very little research on how the size, position, and shape of this part of a woman's anatomy relates to sexual function, particularly after gynaecological surgery. They found that postoperative sexual function after surgery was associated with clitoral size, position, and shape

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conference: JAMA Surgery

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Organisation/s: University of Pittsburgh, Magee Women’s Research Institute, USA

Funder: This study was conducted by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)– sponsored Pelvic Floor Disorders Network (PFDN) (grants U10 HD054214, U10 HD041267, U10 HD041261, U10 HD069013, U10 HD069025, U10 HD069010, U10 HD069006, U10 HD054215, U01 HD069031) and the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health. Partial support for this study was provided by Boston Scientific Corporation through a research grant to the PFDN Data Coordinating Center, RTI International. Research training support was provided by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship Program and Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Engineering Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Engineering Excellence

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