Girls Have Secrets.

You might think you know all about the G-Spot or the ubiquitous lower-back tattoo, but do you have any idea what the Dimples of Venus are? The Whale Tail? Do you know that buttock cleavage (there’s got to be a better name for that) has been sexually attractive for centuries? If not, never fear—we’re here to tell you about a few of the strange mysteries of the female body, the uncharted territories and places that actually have real names and concepts attached to them.

A lot of these things come into common knowledge as trends—the kind of things you hear someone mention at school or work before you realize it’s a full-fledged meme, a concept that has been known for some time but has only recently got a proper name.

You Probably Know About the Sex Moves.

Maybe you’re thinking of the sex moves: the dirty sanchez, the rusty trombone, all those non-existent and generally misogynistic myths that always involve some sort of outlandish act. No—these are something else entirely, little hidden parts on the female form that have only recently gained the proper nomenclature to go with them. Check them out:

What About the Dimples of Venus?

Dimples—those little indentations that appear on the cheeks of certain people when they smile—are generally known by everybody. So what are the Dimples of Venus, then? Simple: dimples that appear at the bottom of the lower back, just where the butt starts. For a more formal explanation, I turn to the always-reliable (well, no) Wikipedia:

They are sagittally symmetrical indentations sometimes visible on the human lower back, just superior to the gluteal cleft. They are directly superficial to the twosacroiliac joints, the sites where the sacrum attaches to the ilium of the pelvis.

Hm, sure. In layman’s terms?

The term “dimples of Venus,” while informal, is a historically accepted name within the medical profession for the superficial topography of the sacroiliac joints. The Latin name is fossae lumbales laterales (”lateral lumbar indentations”). These indentations are created by a short ligament stretching between the posterior superior iliac spine and the skin.

Guess not. But it’s clear enough from this—they’re irregular and actually pretty damn desireable. Coming, as they do, at the exact point just above the g-string or bikini line, they form a rather perfect complement to what’s down below.

Or the Whale Tail?

The exact opposite of what you’re thinking, probably. When I first heard the term “Whale Tail” I thought it was referring to some kind of strange deformation of the rear end, a kind of ass that ballooned outwards and somehow, somewhere, made someone think of the tail of a whale. No.

Turns out the actual thing itself is much more appropriate to its name: just like a whale’s tail sticking out above the water, the whale tail on a female—one who has let her pants ride down somewhat, thus exposing her underwear—looks exactly like one. You could call it a Y-shaped thong, and again, according to Wikipedia, it was worn quite intentionally by various celebrities over the past decade, apparently now having fallen out of favour.

Good, I say—who wants an intentionally created piece of underwear exposure when the improvised, happenstance, random one is really the only reason it’s sexy?

And We Can’t Forget Buttock Cleavage!

This one is 100x clearer than the other two we just looked at. You know what it is, the cleavage formed at the top of the butt. But did you know there are desirable depictions of it going back almost three centuries? Check out this Danish painting by Christoffer Eckersberg. Those old Danes were surprisingly adept at prediciting our early-21st-century enjoyments (or trends, at least) when it came to the female form.

Although buttock cleavage and the whale tail have fallen out of favour recently, they’re responsible for a couple of things: besides creating a new term that’s cool in a linguistic sense, they trained our eyes on previously unknown areas of female attractiveness. Any time a ‘new cleavage’ or erogenous zone gets ‘invented’ like this, we as men benefit, as something that wasn’t so special only days before, becomes, right in front of our eyes, yet another entry in the great catalogue of female sexiness.

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