Marcel Winatschek

The Female Penis

Most guys think they’re good because they don’t finish in three seconds. They’re idiots. I was an idiot. I didn’t know anything about the clitoris—where it was, what it actually did, why it mattered. I just moved fast and assumed competence was automatic.

Lori Malépart-Traversy, a French artist, made a video called Le Clitoris that explains the whole thing in a few minutes. Where it is. What it does. Why it’s basically the female equivalent of a penis. The kind of basic education that should happen before anyone gets someone into bed.

I was the guy who moved too fast, got bored, didn’t listen. Didn’t think twice about what I was doing. The people I was with deserved better and they were too kind to tell me how badly I was ruining everything.

I don’t know how to apologize for that kind of indifference. But at least now I know what I was too stupid to learn on my own.