To ask if showing your lady parts is "a thing"

[Polkapjs]

A millennial friend has told me about “you know that thing when you show each other your vaginas?” And on seeing my shocked face didn’t say much more other than to explain she’s been showing a colleague at the work’s party and now is embarrassed
Is the comparison even a thing? Is this normal. It was delivered in a way which suggested it was totally normal like comparing hand size...
So tell me - have I been living under a rock? I’d no sooner display my wares than poke needles in my eyes

@MrsStrowman - I feel so young and vital now!

Really upset that it means I am to blame for killing canned tuna, sheds and salad cream now though.

It's like the difference between flashing your bum and opening it up for a rectal examination. One is not so unusual, for some, if there's been plenty of alcohol and general jovial tomfoolery; the other is extreme!!

This is not a thing, your friend has been duped.

I wondered how long it would take for someone to make sure the Op knew it should vulva and not vagina.

You'd need a speculum to see someone's vagina.

I wondered how long it would take for someone to make sure the Op knew it should vulva and not vagina.

Do you not think women should know the names of their own body parts?

Millennial? I'm 22, I think that makes me one. We've never compared our bots and pieces, I have a friend loves people to know her nipples are pierced though!
We even wee together on nights out but we don't stare at eachother foofs and compliment them!

Can you tell us exactly what she said?
Is she vulnerable on any way? Did the other person show their ‘s ?
Does she just mean the muff( or the place where it is if you don’t t wax it off) or the full gynae view?

This reminds of one, slightly drunk, work party where three of my colleagues compared bikini waxes. However, they're all early 20s and good friends outside of work...

I actually did this with three friends but in all fairness we were quite drunk and it was not a work party. We were just curious about what other normal non-porn ones looked like...

And have only spoken about it once, the morning after, when we all asked 'did we really do that?' and then agreed never to mention it again.

Nope,not a thing for anyone I know. I am too old to be a millennial though. And these days, nobody wants to see it.

Hang on, I did show a friend my c- section scar once. She thought it would be nearer my belly button so I showed her. Does that count?

Is this a wind-up?
Still quite funny though

Nope. Never and if my friend asked me to swap - she wouldn't be getting a yes as an answer -more a hand on hip and raised eyebrow!

Is your friend called Sheela Na Gig?

My vagina is currently on display in the Louvre. I miss it. 😢

Reading the OP, a memory flashed before my eyes. And Christmas being the season of good will, I thought I'd share...

Back when I was a young gimmer (1992), I started menstruating before one of my friends. She was from a very sheltered background. She asked me, "did you get your mum to insert the tampon for you the first time?"

So clearly the idea of letting someone other than the gynaecologist and one's lover(s) see where the sun doesn't shine, is not an entirely new thing. 😵😵😵

The answer was 'no', btw.

Photocopiers - a drunken young twerp did try to immortalise his nether regions at a party at a firm I worked at eons ago. Was not a particularly robust machine, because the screen cracked and he fell off. Just a little reangling or, some good core balance work and a determined attitude and you could get a blurry image of the outer area, I suppose , though all the screen cleaner in the world wouldn’t make me use that machine again 🤢

Maybe she wanted to show off how many piercings she had?

If it’s not normal maybe it should be.

How strange! I've got friends that I've known for years (like since primary school,I'm now in my mid 50s) and I can honestly say I have never so much as caught a glimpse of their 'lady parts'! I can well imagine the reaction I would get if I suggested having a peek!

Did it have tinsel on it

I worked in gynaecology for eighteen years. Bit of an occupational hazard.

15 years here so I've seen the genitalia of around a dozen+ colleagues for work/gynae related reasons.

However, in any other job, that would be weird!

Not a wind up! True I was horrified then curious. The word vagina was mentioned- by her not me. I was too shocked to correct to vulva
Glad it’s “not a thing”. I asked a mutual friend and she too was all WTF? Hence referring to the wise women of Mumsnet

I thought this was going to be a reference to that twitter hoohaa a few months ago when an 'inclusive' feminist was claiming that harrassing of transgender people was widespread, she said that some drunk had harrassed her on a night out somewhere, thinking she looked transgender, but "I showed him my vagina and ran away". 🤣 Her claim was undermined a bit when someone looked back through her tweets and saw that two days before she'd said something like "next they (women) will be demanding you show your vagina before you can use the toilets".

I can honestly say I've never felt obliged to show any of my friends my lady-parts. I remember a Sarah Millican doing a sketch about how she thought a friend was hinting at such, but not sure if it was true.

Vulva is the bit you’d see in any case. Not vagina.