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Bodies without evidence

( Between sport, tampons and changing cultural values, the hymen has disappeared, physically and symbolically, from modern life, writes Bettina Arndt. )

First entry

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Hello! I am new.

A brief biography: My name is Jennifer, I am 16 years old, and I -heart- my vagina. My boyfriend, Charles, treats it very well. :-)

I would like to take this time to recommend a book, Vinnie's Giant Roller Coaster Period Chart Journal and Sticker Book.

This book is the greatest. It includes a year-long calendar on which you can chart your period (and you do not have to start at the beginning of the year, or anything crazy such as that). To chart your period, the book contains different sorts of stickers. One set for PMS days, one for the first day of your cycle, stickers for the rest of the days of your cycle, craving stickers, and also stickers to chart your friends' periods. The back of the book contains excellent cramp remedies (The Krazy Kiwi Smoothy is what Vinnie recommends). And you also get a cute tampon case!

I could go on about this book for ages! Buy it!!!

Parsley Infusion

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I tried drinking an infusion of parsley today to hopefully speed up my period a bit. It's been trying to start for a few days, and I figured trying a bit of parsley tea couldn't hurt. I made it by filling my teaball with dried parsley and steeping in two cups of water for about 5 minutes. Then discovered it tasted horrible, so I threw an apple tea bag in with it, which helped tremendously. I know this has been discussed before, but has anyone had real success with this method? I'll update with my results, if any.

Yoni Power!

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Recently, I took a poll in my own journal about the words people preferred for various "taboo" body parts. Surprisingly, only one person besides me chose the word Yoni for the female genitals.I love the word yoni. It's just right. It's not crude. It's not disprespectful. It's not clinical. It doesn't offend anyone that I've ever noticed.

If you read the Kama Sutra (and I don't advise it, as most if it has nothing to do with sex, really... ) but if you read the Kama Sutra, the word Yoni is used there. Its counterpart is the lingam, which is the penis. I got confused by this when I first learned these words long ago, because to me, lingam looked like it had the same "ling" root as linguistic, etc. Meaning tongue. As in cunniLINGus. So I looked it up, and I believe it had a different linguistic root.

So anyway *reminds self that other people are not as word-obsessed*

I've long called my own yoni a yoni, and I wonder why it's not a more popular word. I mean, why use those derogatory words (*MY* pussy purrs and enjoys catnip, thank you very much) or those words that make you feel like you're getting a pap smear ("Please lick my vulva, honey?") when there's this lovely word. It's got the -i ending so it sounds affectionate when you say it. Yet it's got a long, respectful, dignified, dare I say WORSHIPPED history. It's a very powerful word.