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and now I'm imagining "setting and casting" the cervix, after a woman gives birth through it...
Oh, I'm sure he knows too, but it's just the premise that seems silly.
@17 When I discover a new author, I tend to read all of their books obsessively, and so hunted down a book about relationships where Dan contributed a chapter, in which he describes losing his virginity to a girl, and more memorably, describes reaching "third base" as "reaching into a dish of lasagne." I have not been able to get this out of my head since.
I guess instead of sugar and spice and everything nice, Dan thinks girls are salty and fattening?
Maybe the kid thinks that girls have bones in their hoo-hoos, kinda like he has a bone in his ding-dong.
Makes perfect sense.
And please tell me that your roommate isn't in college!
Later in the wiki article, you find out that the "epithelium of the cervix is varied." If you figured out that that section was talking about the composition of the cervix, you might click on epithelium and find out that it is one of the four basic types of animal tissue, along with connective tissue, muscle tissue and nervous tissue.
But you might still not be sure that it wasn't a bone. After all, Wiki's article on "bone" says: "Bones are rigid organs...Bone tissue is a type of dense connective tissue."
I'm just saying, that for people who don't own a cervix and who don't have much of an education, it's not so obvious that the cervix is not made of bone. And after all, the pelvis is bone, and it moves and softens to allow a baby to be born. So, I'm just saying...
I'm not sure any of those links ever explicitly say what kind of tissue the cervix is made out of, although one says something about the cells covering it.
I suppose, since the ones I looked at all explain that it is the narrow opening to the uterus, it could be inferred that it is made of the same thing as the uterus, which is probably not made of bone.
C'mon....Where's my smut supply? I want to hear about threesomes, hot 21 year olds with huge cocks, sexy co-eds experimenting, hot older guys who want to open up their relationships and other such sexual relationship quanderies. This week was a let-down.
Pout :(
Here's some answers so others don't need to embarrass themselves by asking, the cervix is composed of muscle cells, a boner isn't really a bone, a woody isn't made of wood, the pelvis does not soften during childbirth it's the joints between the bones that compose the pelvis that soften, the clitoris is found above the vagina where the inner lips meet, some clams are bearded and some tacos are pink, it may be called country but it ain't music.
@35, I was not trying to show that the cervix was actually a bone. I was trying to be suggestive of how people who knew how to google might still find it hard to figure out what material the cervix is made of. That said, of course, you're right.
os may refer to:
* os, a mouth or external opening (from the Latin), also ostium. In particular:
----- external os, the external orifice of the uterus
----- internal os, the internal orifice of the uterus
----- os or ostium, the "mouth" of a coronary artery
It could not be more clear. Nowhere does it mention bone.
os, ossis, n. -- bone
os, oris, n. -- mouth or face
Still no excuse for anyone with the least knowledge of reproductive anatomy to think the cervix is a bone. :p
Literally lol'ed at Dan's response here. Honestly... Even though large swathes of our generation were deprived of proper sex ed, we should all have learned how to use Google by now.
"Today, my boyfriend asked how I could go to the bathroom and leave my tampon in at the same time. He didn't realize there are two separate holes. He's 28."
And from the comments, it sounds like that was news to a whole lot of FML readers as well. So UGC's roommate's ignorance doesn't especially surprise me.
LW himself may not have understood the extent of his roommate's confusion.
Certainly Google would have been a good resource for clarifying the organ/body parts the two roommates may have been discussing. However, I found Dan's search link hits to be quite clinical. While they could indicate location in the body, none of them provided information about the physical makeup of the cervix. Thanks to@35 for actually answering the question.
At the time, I was a teenager and thought that women were "supposed" to come from PIV sex. I thought there was something wrong with me because I couldn't, and I was ashamed of my own body because none of my boyfriends seemed to want to have anything to do with my clit.
Thanks, American sex ed! Wish I could sue my small-town school to pay for the therapy I needed.
I wish more guys asked questions about female anatomy, because it's better to ask and sound stupid than to not ask and leave a string of unsatisfied sexual partners in your wake.