Sexuality discovered in female snakes: ‘Sexual intercourse in snakes is not a result of coercion:

he discovery of clitoris in female snakes suggests that lust and pleasure may be present during sexual intercourse in snakes.

Scientists have discovered that female snakes have clitoris, disproving the hypothesis that female snakes do not have sex organs.Research published on Wednesday describes the structure of the female snake’s genitalia for the first time.

The male snake’s penis has been researched for decades. It is divided into two branches i.e. from the front and thorn-like protrusions are found on them.But the female snake’s genitalia has been neglected in comparison, researchers say.It was not that they were invisible, but that scientists had never tried to see them before.

Lead researcher Megan Folwell describes three reasons for this: ‘It was considered taboo to discuss the genitalia of female snakes, scientists were unable to find it, and people had misconceptions about snakes being intersex or bisexual. were accepting the idea.’ Female snakes have two clitoris, separated by a muscle and hidden on the underside of the tail. Researchers say this double-walled organ consists of nerves, collagen and red blood cells. Its muscles have the ability to contract like a male penis.Folwell says that the reason for his research in this regard was that the available material on genitalia in female snakes indicated that they either do not exist or have been lost during evolution. I didn’t think it was right. “I know that it (the clitoris) is found in all animals, so it cannot be that it is not in all snakes.”

Their joint paper, published this week in the journal ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society’, identifies a clitoris in the tail of a female snake. (The clitoris, or gonad, is a small bump on the top of the human vulva, while the larger part is inside the body. It is the most sensitive and similar to the male penis.)

He began by researching the death adder, a highly venomous snake found in Australia, and soon discovered the heart-shaped clitoris. It was close to the snake’s scent glands. These glands are used to attract the opposite sex for sexual intercourse.”In the female snake, it was a dual structure, completely different from the surrounding muscles, and there was nothing that resembled the penis of the male snakes I had previously studied,” he said.

He then explored different species of snakes in which two such branched clitoris were found, although they differed in size.