I while ago I saw on t.v a piece of art/sculpture called the great vagina wall (I think.you can google it) it consisted of lots of casts of various women's vaginas put together in frames. They were not pornographic or erotic but does show how there is no normal to how a woman looks and that we all look different . The artist was saying he did it to help women who were considering plastic surgery on their genitals maybe see it wasn't needed. It might not be something I would go and see but it was a very powerful image. So when my sil said she was worried about my two dn age 14 and 16 opinions on their body image and peer pressure etc I suggested that the vagina wall might be something useful to show them how diverse everyone is. I was quite shocked by her reaction which was basically saying I should not look at such filth and she would never expose her daughters to such a thing. This has left me feeling really upset. I just wondered what other people think.
AIBU?
Aibu to see vagina wall as good for young girls
Everincreasingirth · 11/02/2013 19:29
I think it sounds like a great idea, but it would need to be handled with tact.
At 14 I don't think there would have been anything worse than my mother announcing 'Come on dear we're going to look at a wall of fannies' I'd never be able to look at her again.
However, if we were in the gallery anyway looking at something else, and 'just so happened to stumble across it' it would be more acceptable.
I think your friend (Dsil?) has issues of her own going by her reaction!
Where is this piece of art by the way? 
Of course it's good. But I have to point out that they are vulvas rather than vaginas .
YANBU.
I agree, YANBU, she is a bit uptight and not realistic. After all, most of the preconceived ideas young girls have about their looks are from magazines where the subject is plastic-surgeried or airbrushed into oblivion, vaginas included!
I think the great vagina wall is superb and would certainly allow my teenage dd to see it if it made her realise we are all different and there is no 'normal'.
If I had been taken to see this at that age by my aunt I'd have been massively 
. It's her call. I doubt many girls are worried what their vaginas look like (are they??) when they're bombarded with self esteem eroding images of every possible kind. At that age I was more worried about my puppy fat and spots. A wall of vaginas would have casued me nothing but squirming embarassment, and tbh I have no desire to see it even now.
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Is the great wall of vagina visible from space too Morris?
OP, YANBU to find your SIL's attitude a bit off.
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