the organ was not imaged until 2009, by a couple of French researchers, who had trouble getting funding for their project...
it certainly wasn't "discovered until 1998" in full, but you can expect some exaggeration and inaccuracies in any science article published in the popular press.
The clit hugs and partially circles the vagina -- a vaginal orgasm is nothing but an internal clitoral orgasm. How many of your lady friends know that?
I hadn't heard about that doctor's "method of repairing the damage caused by female genital mutilation." That is pretty cool, they have surgical methods to reverse part of the mutulition so gals can have an external clit orgasm...