I disliked the word improvement too, but as soon as they showed the doctor actually slicing off the labia minor I just about died! I'm still sitting here with shivers or horror wracking my body! WHY, WOMEN!? WHY!?!?! It's your body! Love it, accept it, be proud of it! If someone doesn't like the way it looks, fuck em! They don't get to look!
Oh Jesus, I'm really afraid I'm going to dream about that tonight... :S
b) despite the fact that i have a vagina that would be the "ideal" for this review board (ie. my labia are not visible at all, and my vagina would be considered "closed"), i hate my labia just the same. my right one is significantly (well, significant to me, my partner doesn't care) longer than the other. however, i'd never do anything. perhaps this is only because mine are not too visible in general.
Thank you for posting this video I have big labia minora and always that I was different until I looked up this topic online and read a post from a waxer who said that you would be surprised at how many girls don't have a perfect looking labia. I am sexually active and I have had comments from guys that my parts look different, I think what guys see in porn makes them think all girls look the same. It doesn't bother me, we can talk about my lips all night. I have never had anyone walk out on me and I have never had to walk out on someone for what they say about my lips if they say anything at all so it doesn't matter. I also read that if u are premature born, the labia minora is not completely covered by the majora, I don't know if that is the scientific reasoning behind having protruding inner lips, never really asked a doctor, but I was 3 months premature so that is how I make sense of it my head. thou I don't like hearing girls not happy w how they look I am glad there is some attention on this topic.
It's very interesting, if somewhat disturbing. I never used to like my labia minora and used to want to have surgery, but thankfully found VP and their EBP before I decided to have anything done cosmetically. This further compounds my decision that no knife is ever going near my genitals.
Also, yes, please cut this, there are many reasons why people would not want this showing up on their friends page.
The things people do to their bodies astounds me. o.o I had no idea people might not like their labia minora, especially not to the extent that they'd want to have them removed. Mine are visible (actually, I always laugh when I catch a glimpse because it really looks like a clam sticking its tongue out and I think it's cute -- sorry for the TMI, I just have a lot of love for my girl ^^;) and I've never had an issue with it or had any of my partners judge me for it. I really do think it's an act of control against women. More and more, Western type societies (and even just in general), are finding ways to make women more compact and in their place. I'm sorry, but I just have to femirage against it. I don't see how this is any different than female genital mutilation, except maybe we use anesthetics and clean environments.
-sigh- This world makes me sad what it does to women and anyone who owns a vagina. :(
There was a photo study done of vulva in all that great and varied glory. It's a shame it's not more readily available -- as a lot more people would realize how wide variation there is...and how dull life would be without it.
And its a shame a false economy is being built on a needlessly constructed fear in making some people think a barbie doll ideal is something that should be got, over the experience of a more sensual endowment.
Wow. I guess really the only other vulvas I've seen besides mine have been in porn. I didn't realize how much they vary! Mine looks very much like the "neat and tidy" ones shown on the video, so I guess I thought that was the norm. That being said, I couldn't imagine EVER doing something surgical like that to change my appearance. I don't like the shape of my boobs, but I'll NEVER have surgery to change them. I don't understand how anyone could allow someone to cut their vulva to change its appearance.
My girlfriend has labia minora which are visible and I find her vulva to be one of the most adorable things that I've ever seen. I have trouble believing that she was under the impression that she was abnormal; that she was so put-off by her genitalia that she would hardly look at or touch it, and that I was the first person to be allowed to do so.
I would kill to have my vulva resemble hers. I have difficulty accepting my genitalia for a number of different reasons, and I have considered surgery, but I won't, for monetary reasons. Yet, I'm hard-pressed to see another person's vulva and feel even an eighth of the distaste that I have for myself. I find it sad, somehow, because I was conditioned this way, I know.
I actually never realized (until several years ago) that there are people who feel discomfort with their vulvas-I remember that vulvas are like faces (oh dear, I think I learned that from Tyra...) so of course there will be variation. I remember my ex's younger sister may have made a comment about the way their ~supposed to look and we both chimed in with the face analogy (same parts, different look!) I love that there's variation, if I ever am sexual with another vulva owner, I'd love to see differences.
my friend actually posted this on FB, and it has left me shocked for the last few days. What I find most disturbing about it that no one has mentioned is that it leaves women looking like little girls. Why do we want women to look like little girls?
But at the same time, Australia has also banned porn with women with small breasts because it's too much like child porn...
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I check livejournal at work and around family members, so I'd rather not have a naked woman show up on my screen.
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Oh Jesus, I'm really afraid I'm going to dream about that tonight... :S
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b) despite the fact that i have a vagina that would be the "ideal" for this review board (ie. my labia are not visible at all, and my vagina would be considered "closed"), i hate my labia just the same. my right one is significantly (well, significant to me, my partner doesn't care) longer than the other. however, i'd never do anything. perhaps this is only because mine are not too visible in general.
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I also read that if u are premature born, the labia minora is not completely covered by the majora, I don't know if that is the scientific reasoning behind having protruding inner lips, never really asked a doctor, but I was 3 months premature so that is how I make sense of it my head. thou I don't like hearing girls not happy w how they look I am glad there is some attention on this topic.
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It's very interesting, if somewhat disturbing. I never used to like my labia minora and used to want to have surgery, but thankfully found VP and their EBP before I decided to have anything done cosmetically. This further compounds my decision that no knife is ever going near my genitals.
Also, yes, please cut this, there are many reasons why people would not want this showing up on their friends page.
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Also, the misuse of the word vagina is very annoying. It's not vagina, it's vulva.
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-sigh- This world makes me sad what it does to women and anyone who owns a vagina. :(
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And its a shame a false economy is being built on a needlessly constructed fear in making some people think a barbie doll ideal is something that should be got, over the experience of a more sensual endowment.
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I would kill to have my vulva resemble hers. I have difficulty accepting my genitalia for a number of different reasons, and I have considered surgery, but I won't, for monetary reasons. Yet, I'm hard-pressed to see another person's vulva and feel even an eighth of the distaste that I have for myself. I find it sad, somehow, because I was conditioned this way, I know.
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But at the same time, Australia has also banned porn with women with small breasts because it's too much like child porn...
so in conclusion, Australia is fucked up.