FRHD 2100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Hyperplasia, Vas Deferens, Seminiferous Tubule
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A mound of fatty tissue that covers the pubic bone (the joining of pelvic bones at the front of the body, below abdomen and above the clitoris). The mons veneris is also known as the mons pubis, or simply the mons. At puberty the mons becomes covered with pubic hair, which is often thick and curly, but varies from person to person in waviness, texture, and colour. It protects her and her partner from pressure afainst the pubic bone caused by thrusting motions. There"s ample supply of nerve endings in the mons, so caressing the area can produce pleasureable sexual sensations. Large folds of skin that run downward from the mons along the side of the vuvla. It is thick and bulging in some women, and thinner, flatter and less noticeable in others. When close together, the labia majora shield the labia minora and the urethral and.