clitoris is only part that a majority can correctly identify

a widespread lack of anatomical knowledge about female genitalia among both genders

A new survey shows that Britons are worryingly uninformed about female genitalia, and that women are almost as unaware as men about what’s going on down below.

Respondents were asked to label the diagram below to the best of their abilities. We accepted misspelled but obviously correct answers, and even euphemistic or descriptive responses when appropriate (e.g. ‘wee hole’ for urethra’ or ‘lips’ for ‘labia’).

Even so, half of Britons could not identify or describe the function of the urethra (58%), labia (47%) or vagina (52%).

Breaking those results down by gender, we find that six in ten men (59%) and half of women (45%) could not even label the vagina. Slightly more didn’t know what the urethra was (61% of men and 55% of women). Around half of both genders failed to label the labia (52% of men and 43% of women).

See the full results here.