Some interesting facts about the vagina...

That part of our potential grandaughters and grandsons are there, already, in our own wombs, whilst we're growing our own children.

We are everything. In comparison to us, what a low value item the male of the species really is! We are poetic.

I want a lovely painting of a clitoris, they’re just so pretty and they hug you when they’re happy - how can a woman ever feel alone.

Oh blimey. This actually made me tear up a little bit.

Women's anatomy is WONDROUS.

Really enjoying this thread!

If you want to read something wonderful along these lines I can only recommend this:

Woman: An Intimate Geography (Revised and Updated) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1844089908/ref=cmswwrcppapiii_myNmBb8WY2QV0

It's authored by a New York Times science writer and is absolutely amazing. Inspiring, thought provoking, and wonderfully written.

I reread on a regular basis and often buy copies as presents for my female friends.

What a lovely thread. Men try their best to degrade our sex organ by likening it to an empty hole or a wound (ewww) when it's a complex and muscular organ. And that the clitorisis actually so large and only exist for pleasure is amazing.

As I've got older, I've also got to appreciate the aromas of the vagina. Always parodied, slated, and even, as smells, abused and targeted.

And yet they tell us what part of our cycle we're on, whether there's an infection, whether we've had sex with a male, just in general, 'hello, we're here, and it's ok'.

(Realise I'm giving smells a voice and personality, but it's something that's often labelled as 'shameful', to cover up, to deny, but actually I think women's smells are amazing!)

That's always amazed me too Resistance.

That part of our potential grandaughters and grandsons are there, already, in our own wombs, whilst we're growing our own children.

A bit mindblowing!

Freud thought there was a difference between a vaginal and a clitoral orgasm, which is pretty odd considering he had had neither.

I want a lovely painting of a clitoris, they’re just so pretty and they hug you when they’re happy - how can a woman ever feel alone. They’ve been completely ignored by modern day anatomists - I wonder if that’s because so much research is undertaken in the US, where it’s illegal to show ‘pornography’ in colleges (I think I remember this from a documentary on a sex therapist - will have a think and try and come back with a citation).

Our bodies are amazing.

Like an ankh is my favorite description for the clitoris so far.

This is a lovely thread.

OleannasWimple wrote: ""vaginal vault" is an amazing term!".

Isn't it just? Between that and the magnificent structures in LangCleg 's image, it's like we're talking about rose windows and the architecture of cathedrals.

I know the topic is vagina rather than vulva but it's reminding me of Sheela na gigs

I always find these fascinating...

www.greatwallofvagina.co.uk/shop/internal-affairs-internal-vagina-casting

"Vagina as wound" is a long standing trope in art and literature. The famous scene in Crash between Rosanna Arquette and James Spader (where he fucks a hole in her leg) was one of the more literal depictions, but there is a rich history of medieval poetry and art with a similar, more subtle theme

Vaginas are excellent, aren't they? Shame you can't make them out of other body parts but them's the breaks, folks!

Anyone old enough to remember the days when we bought our own speculums and looked at our cervixes with mirrors?

That web link I posted has pictures people have taken....

"vaginal vault" is an amazing term!

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It must have been quite a life changing event for you. [Flowers]

I would also be annoyed with the neo terminology too.

I need to appreciate vaginas more! I am always harping on about the astonishing capabilities of uteri & cervixes

Wrath, I have had reconstructive vaginoplasty due to injury, hence my discomfort with the word being used when what they mean is neovaginoplasty

That clitoris image is gorgeous. Also since suffering nerve damage and some pretty impressive scarring in my vagina from childbirth last year, thinking about the location of the clitoris (out of the way of all the snipping and ripping and subsequent numbness and prolapse) is the closest this good little atheist has come to believing in intelligent design and a compassionate creator

I love this picture, LangCleg The clitoris almost looks like an Ankh.

The bold type came out a little tooo bold

I was referring to the comparison of a re-construction to what was there before.
I imagine its not great. Surgery is not an exact science. But if it saves your life then that's a small price to pay.

That's an amazing image Lang.

There was a book published in the late 70s or early 80s, intended to help women who struggled to reach orgasm. They suggested a speculum and mirror and had a PO box number for women to write to buy a speculum.
I can't remember the title. It wasn't Our Bodies Ourselves or Women and Their Bodies.

Does anyone know somebody who has had vaginoplasty in real life?
I'm talking about reconstructive surgeries due to gynaecological cancers or injury not the unnecessary cosmetic sort.
I imagine the result to be a bit under par compared to the real thing the woman would have had before.

But with cancer etc you just have to accept it to survive.
Just wondering really