YOUNG-WOMEN Messages for June, 2002: Re: Women's real bodies: labia/genitals

Re: Women's real bodies: labia/genitals

From: ak (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 7 Jun 2002 08:36:21 -0500 (CDT)

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At Thu, 6 Jun 2002, vw wrote: >
>why is it that loads of gyne books for the popular home user, still
>illustrate women's genitals as neat and small, especially the labia, as
>being smaller than the labia majora? Of all the programmes I have
>watched and all I have seen, and talked to other friends, many/most
>adult women have inner labia that protude out from the majora, including
>myself. This makes endless women ask 'I am normal', which is the msot
>frequent question I ask and discuss and we all feel the same. Only
>Sheila Kitzinger's books go to the trouble of illustrating and sometimes
>showing photos of real bodies. It really irritates me. It also makes
>young women even more embarrassed when they visit the Doctor for the
>first time to be examined, making everything more difficult than it is
>already. Men's genitals are never smartened up, but as usual the
>women's are. Does anyone else feel they have to ask, 'are they normal'?

I am so glad you addressed this. I have also been irritated with the way they portray women's genitals. I mean it makes you so self conscious. Especially when your younger and first experimenting with sex. You think that guys are looking at you like something isn't "right" becasue you don't look like those girls in the books and magazines that seem to look perfect down there! I was always embarressed because i thought i wasn't normal. I still am, even though i know my man doesn't think twice about it. They should make a book for girls/women with all different kinds of pictures of women, just to show that everyone isn't perfect! I know it would've made me feel better and less self conscious growing up. Im glad other people feel the same.

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