A man and a woman in the Pioneer plaque. The woman's genitals are not depicted, only the mons pubis.

In human anatomy, the mons veneris (Latin, mound of Venus), is the soft mound of flesh just over the vulva in females (more generally in mammals it is called the mons pubis), raised above the surrounding area due to a pad of fat lying just beneath it. After puberty it is normally covered with pubic hair to a greater or lesser extent. The labia majora or large lips extend on either side of the vulva, and may also be covered with pubic hair. Pioneer plaque - Man and woman NASA Image of the Pioneer plaque. ... On board the unmanned spacecraft Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 is a plaque with a pictoral message from mankind. ... Human anatomy or anthropotomy is a special field within anatomy. ... Venus is the Roman goddess of love, equivalent to Greek Aphrodite and Etruscan Turan. ... Parts of a vulva The external genital organs of the female are collectively known as the vulva (also sometimes called the pudenda). ... Female is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces egg cells. ... In biochemistry, fat is a generic term for a class of lipids. ... Puberty refers to the process of physical changes by which a childs body becomes an adult body capable of reproduction. ... Pubic hair is hair in the frontal genital area and in the crotch, and sometimes at the top of the inside of the legs; these areas form the pubic region. ... Parts of a vulva The external genital organs of the female are collectively known as the vulva (also sometimes called the pudenda). ...

The title of John Cleland's erotic classic, Fanny Hill, or the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, is a punning reference to this anatomical feature: 'Fanny' being a British English slang term for the vulva. John Cleland (1709-1789) was an English novelist. ... Fanny Hill, also known as Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, is a novel by John Cleland. ... A pun (also known as paronomasia) is a deliberate confusion of similar-sounding words or phrases for comic or serious effect. ... Fanny can have many meanings: People: Fanny was a 1970s all women rock band led by June Millington. ... Diagram showing the geographical locations of selected languages and dialects of the British Isles. ... Slang is the non-standard use of words in a language of a particular social group, and sometimes the creation of new words or importation of words from another language. ...

A crease in the mons veneris is evident here, sometimes described as a camel toe due to its similarity in shape to the foot of a camel

The aesthetic structure created by the crease-like indentation of the vulva into the mons veneris, is sometimes referred to as a "cameltoe", due to its visual similarity to the area between a camel's toes. An irreverent website devoted to this particular aspect of human anatomy can be found at cameltoe.org (http://www.cameltoe.org/) Picture taken of bikini in use at Waikiki beach in Oahu, Hawaii File links The following pages link to this file: Mons pubis User:Avriette/My Images Categories: GFDL images ... Picture taken of bikini in use at Waikiki beach in Oahu, Hawaii File links The following pages link to this file: Mons pubis User:Avriette/My Images Categories: GFDL images ... For other uses, see Camel (disambiguation). ...

Pioneer plaque

On board the unmanned spacecraft Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 is a plaque with a pictoral message from mankind. The plaque shows the figures of a man and a woman along with several symbols that are designed to provide information about the origin of the spacecrafts. Ariane 5 lifts off with the Rosetta probe on 2nd of March, 2004. ... Launch of Pioneer 10 Launched on March 2, 1972, Pioneer 10 (also called Pioneer F) was the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt, the first spacecraft to make direct observations of Jupiter, and on June 13th 1983 it became the first man-made object to leave the solar... Pioneer 11 at Saturn (artists impression) Pioneer 11 was the second mission to investigate Jupiter and the outer solar system and the first to explore the planet Saturn and its main rings. ... On board the unmanned spacecraft Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 is a plaque with a pictoral message from mankind. ... Human beings are defined variously in biological, spiritual, and cultural terms, or in combinations thereof. ... Figure can refer to any of the following: A persons figure. ... Image of a man on the Pioneer plaque sent to outer space A man is a male human adult, in contrast to an adult female, which is a woman. ... Image of a woman on the Pioneer plaque sent to outer space. ... A symbol, in its basic sense, is a representational token for a concept or quantity; i. ...

According to Sagan (Murmurs of Earth, 1978, New York, ISBN 0679744444), there were many negative reactions to the plaque because the human beings were displayed naked. The Chicago Sun Times retouched its image to hide the genitals of the man and woman. The Los Angeles Times received "angry letters" from readers which accused NASA of wasting taxpayer money to send "obscenities" into space. Nudity or nakedness is the state of wearing no clothing. ... Chicago Sun-Times The Chicago Sun-Times is an American newspaper publishing out of Chicago, Illinois. ... A sex organ, or primary sexual characteristic, narrowly defined, is any of those parts of the body (which are not always bodily organs according to the strict definition) which are involved in sexual reproduction and constitute the reproductive system in an complex organism; namely: Male: penis (notably the glans penis... The Los Angeles Times (also L.A. Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. ...

Furthermore, one can see that the woman's genitals are not really depicted, only the mons veneris is shown. It has been claimed that Sagan, having little time to complete the plaque, suspected that NASA would have rejected a more intricate drawing and therefore made a compromise just to be safe. (Alan Fletcher, "The art of looking sideways") Alan Fletcher (born 30 March 1957 in Perth, Western Australia) is an actor, best known for his role as Dr Karl Kennedy on the Australian TV series Neighbours. External link The actors Web site Categories: 1957 births | Television actors | Soap opera actors ...