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Our Bodies, Ourselves - celebrating women's bodies in pictures

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LangCleg · 08/07/2018 17:05

Lovely, sunny day. I'm in a good mood. Just the sort of mood for celebrating the wonder of the female body. So here's a beautiful clitoris. Awesome, isn't she?

Our Bodies, Ourselves - celebrating women's bodies in pictures
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MsBeee · 08/07/2018 22:46

SparticusA Smile

Voice0fReason · 08/07/2018 22:24

The female body is amazing.

BetterEatCheese · 08/07/2018 21:37

Sara Pascoe's book Animal is a fabulous exploration of the female body throughout history (in a very funny yet serious way)

Cascade220 · 08/07/2018 21:36

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annandale · 08/07/2018 21:30

I remember that programme Resistance. Fascinating. I thought at the time, can this really be the first time this has been filmed? But there is no aspect of female biology that can't be turned against women to control us.

MsBeee · 08/07/2018 21:30

sorry, too hot and tired, just in awe of anatomy. ill try not to say it again

Cascade220 · 08/07/2018 21:27

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UpstartCrow · 08/07/2018 21:27

I like that, its like another form of Baba Yaga.

MsBeee · 08/07/2018 21:27

Love the LB art thanks.

Clitoris

MsBeee · 08/07/2018 21:26

I repeat, Clitoris Smile

QuarksandLeptons · 08/07/2018 21:23

I love this painting by Louise Bourgeois that she created at the end of her life called The Good Mother.

I think her previous work Femme Maison (woman house) is an earlier version of the same theme and I love it too.

Women’s bodies are houses for other humans! How amazing is that?!

MsBeee · 08/07/2018 21:05

Clitoris Smile

WichBitchHarpyTerfThatsMe · 08/07/2018 20:45

That's interesting qumquat, hadn't thought of that.

Can'y find the Lucy Worsley Harlots series online now - shame.

qumquat · 08/07/2018 19:50

The belief that female orgasm was needed to conceive wasn't entirely beneficial to women. It meant for example that if a women was raped and fell pregnant it was assumed she had enjoyed it.

WichBitchHarpyTerfThatsMe · 08/07/2018 19:14

Am now trying to find the Lucy Worsley on catch up.

I didn't know that noeffing.

boldlygoingsomewhere · 08/07/2018 18:51

The history programme was Lucy Worsley ‘Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: a 17th Century History for Girls’.

I found it incredibly sad that that perspective was lost.

OrchidInTheSun · 08/07/2018 18:21

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Emily Dickinson plate from Judy Chicago's Dinner Party

TheChampagneGalop · 08/07/2018 18:16

How amazing isn't it that we have an organ in our bodies that exists just to make us feel good? The clitoris has no other purpose.
Thinking about that makes me feel almost religious.

WhereDoWeBeginToCovetClarice · 08/07/2018 18:15

The cervix dips during orgasm in such a way that pulls in semen. So it increases the likelihood of conception.

ResistanceIsNecessary · 08/07/2018 18:15

Does anyone remember that biology programme that aired years ago, which showed the female orgasm? It was amazing - it showed the cervix dipping into the pool of semen to encourage it into the womb. The female body is so clever.

ReluctantCamper · 08/07/2018 18:08

Yes! I heard that on the radio Plectrum

then the victorian era came along and the idea of female sexual pleasure being important went by the way side

PlectrumElectrum · 08/07/2018 18:06

orgasm was required in women in order to conceive

I'm sure I saw it mentioned on a history programme that way waaay back it was believed that a woman's pleasure from & enjoyment of sex was essential to conceive.

I'll need to go trawling for that now as it'll bug me til I find it.

noeffingidea · 08/07/2018 18:03

wichbitch it's quite possible. The human race has neared extinction 3 times, once 70,000 BC we may have dropped as low as 40 breeding pairs. The human race is pretty efficient at reproduction as things are. I guess female orgasms are a nice little bonus.

Cascade220 · 08/07/2018 17:57

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WichBitchHarpyTerfThatsMe · 08/07/2018 17:57

I'm still thinking about the other thread and the fact that the clitoris is out of the way of harm during labour and delivery, very clever design.

I'm also wondering if, the same way as in men, orgasm was required in women in order to conceive would the human race have died out by now?!

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