> The clitoris is
>basically a vestigal penis" said Grekin, and let us hope his (Grekin's)
>number is unlisted.

Maybe I'm missing something, but why should anyone call Grekin?  What he
says is entirely true.  All fetuses start out female -- the basic mammalian
body plan is female.  Add nothing, and you get a female.  Add testosterone
beginning around the 10th post-conception week (for human development), and
you get a male.  Penis and clitoris come from the same tissue; scrotal sacs
are fused labia.  What the big deal?

By the way, Playboy several years ago had a similar article on the nipple
taboo.  It's "Nipple Phobia,"  Playboy, 1995, January, pp. 42-43, written by
G. O'Brien.  This article in Health sounds like a direct rip-off.  I use the
final line of the Playboy piece as an epigram at the beginning of my "Beauty
and the Breast" chapter.  It reads: "So what is it about this small gland of
postnatal nourishment that puts a great nation in a dither?  Perhaps the
problem has to do with generations of men who didn't get enough nipple when
it really counted."

Katherine A. Dettwyler, Ph.D.
Texas A&M University