There is shockingly little attention paid to the clitoris (ahem). The number of nerve endings is much larger than the penis, but nobody bothered to count it until last month[1]. It wasn't "discovered" until the 17th century -- a pretty big thing to go unnoticed by anatomists.

It's emblematic of the fact that female bodies are woefully under-studied. There still aren't any treatments for menstrual cramps; all you get is ordinary painkillers. Women are routinely excluded from studies, partly to protect their fertility (as if men aren't also fertile) and partly to remove a variable -- and the results will be applied to women without ever studying that variable[2].

So yeah, getting somebody to study the evolutionary history of the clitoris is kind of a big feminist deal. It is political, because women have been excluded in so many ways for so long.

[1] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/why-is-the-clit-so...

[2] https://www.womenshealth.gov/30-achievements/04