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Medical study on sexual pain - you can apply if you have had "a vagina from birth" ??

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Fenlandia · 15/08/2025 20:09

From Milli Hill's excellent The Word is Woman newsletter, this is a sexual pain study being run from Oxford University. It sounds useful and sensible apart from the fact it dare not name that class of "people" or "individuals" who have had "a vagina from birth".

What a gross phrase, as well as just sounding mad. Did you have one from birth or did you pop one into your shopping basket when you were buying milk one day?

Surely they can't be using this mad newspeak to differentiate women from the results of certain surgeries that some trans-identified men get?

Medical study on sexual pain - you can apply if you have had "a vagina from birth" ??
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lcakethereforeIam · 15/08/2025 21:04

I don't know why the image I attached is so big but it's readable if it's clicked.

ItsCoolForCats · 15/08/2025 20:24

They probably have to say vagina from birth. Otherwise, they'll have India Willoughby trying to take part with his 'neo' vagina.

lcakethereforeIam · 15/08/2025 20:19

Ffs

Medical study on sexual pain - you can apply if you have had "a vagina from birth" ??
MrsOvertonsWindow · 15/08/2025 20:14

Isn't it sad to see apparently intelligent women too ashamed or unable to use the word woman.
It's either a deeply held personal distaste for women or they're too terrified to use normal factual language about women. Despite being apparently interested in women's health problems.

Sad times.