Abstract
These muscles (4 overall) are symmetrical, paired and striated muscles, which are divided into two groups: the group of the ischiocavernosus muscles (connected to the crura of the clitoral corpora cavernosa) and the group of the bulbospongiosus muscles (connected to the spongy bulbs). These muscles also exist at the level of man’s perineum, in which case they are connected to the corpora cavernosa and to the spongy corpus of the penis.
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Due to the existence of 2 osseous insertions, Rouvière describes 2 bundles of origin for this ischiocavernosus muscle: an ischiatic bundle and an ischio-pubic bundle.
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Thanks to their orientation and their direction, the ischiocavernosus muscle fibres can really squeeze out the entire blood content of the clitoral crura as “a cloth which is being wrung out”!
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For a long time, it was considered as responsible for vaginismus (it was believed to be due to its spasmodic contraction). Such as we will see further on in this study, the introitus shrinking faculty belongs to the powerful pubo-rectal bundle of the levator ani muscle.
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Di Marino, V., Lepidi, H. (2014). Muscles of the Bulbo-clitoral Organ. In: Anatomic Study of the Clitoris and the Bulbo-Clitoral Organ. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04894-9_11
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