The Vagina Museum has play up a sketch of the human vulva by Leonardo da Vinci , which seem to be missing a few major fundamental detail .
Da Vinci , as well as excel in picture and inventions that would n’t be able towork for hundreds of age , was a keen anatomist , performing many dissections during his time and make elaborated sketches of what he saw .
Though hekept his studies of anatomy privateand did n’t count himself to be an anatomist by profession , he did now and again publish his work . This include the far-famed Vitruvian Man , prove the " ideal " balance of the human body .
However , he clearly needed to spend a piffling more time on the vagina , if this rough sketch is anything to go by .
Like so many men before and afterward , da Vinci appear to not have noticed the clitoris – or the labia minora . This , however , was belike due to the focus of the slice : the anus .
" The focusing of the page is not the flesh of the vulva – he ’s more concerned in the anus and trying to forge out how the sphincter muscles work , " the Vagina Museum wrote . " The pretty , swirly designs are his theories as to how the musculus are pose out . "
He may have decided to lay aside himself a little drawing time by not describe the labia minora and button , instead sketching how he imagine the anus form . unluckily , his theories on the anus were wrong too .
Da Vinci correctly pretend that muscles are able only to take out , not energy , but did n’t quite get how the sphincter worked . Rather than a ringing - shape muscle that tighten to shut and relaxes to open , he guess there were five muscles involve in one of the worst project of the human body ( we ’re babble out about the anal sphincter here ) .
For this , he had no account .
" Why the muscles of the anus are funny in number ; and if this disparity were necessary , why were three or seven not chosen rather than five?“he wrote , ineffective to amaze a rationality .
However , do n’t take the lack of contingent in the image to mean that he was give a work-shy day . In fact , he may have catch grounds of a prolapse .
" The urethral opening is almost papilliform , and as this individual had give birth multiple time there may have been some prolapse , " the Royal Collection Trustwrote of the figure . " A weakness in the musculo - tendinous level of the pelvis which holds the bladder . "
