Women's Sexuality > The Vagina

How do women feel about their vaginas? It’s hard to tell sometimes – the vagina has been called women’s most disowned body part. Women find it much easier to identify body parts like their breasts, or hair, or skin, or legs, that they would like to change about themselves – but what about the vagina?

Tucked away between your legs, hidden behind the soft pubic hair, the vagina disappears and becomes a sort of secret. Male genitalia is much more open than women’s. Men name their penises; call their testicles ‘the family jewels’ and can admire themselves in mirrors, whereas many women would admit that they have never examined this most intimate part of their own anatomy.

Girls that are taught masturbation is bad and that they must never touch themselves ‘there’ grow up not realizing the beauty of a vagina, in fact believing it is dirty, repulsive to themselves and men. Even Freud believed women were inherently jealous of men because they didn’t have penises - women have instead this hole or absence of something, they lack something compared to men. Freud was wrong. It is hard for women to feel fondness towards their vaginas, but they certainly do not make women inferior.

The word ‘cunt’ is an enormously difficult swear word for people to say or hear. It is a derogatory term when men use it, yet many feminists use it in reference to their vaginas, almost as a challenge, a switch in the use of power. It is said ‘vagina’ has clinical sound to it, much more unwelcoming than ‘penis.’ Other, more everyday, words that refer to the vagina are softer words such as muff, unit and pussy.

In a patriarchal society, the penis becomes a power symbol while the vagina an unmentionable topic. But the vagina is a gateway to life – amazingly capable of stretching as wide as it is long to let a baby into the world. Women need to recognize that the vagina is not the female equivalent to a penis (as in boys have penises, girls have vaginas), that their sexual system is a lot more than ‘just a hole.’

In the 1970’s, women libbers taught others to stand over mirrors and see what their vaginas looked like, and know that their vagina (or ‘yoni’ – the Sanskrit word that refers to the entire feminine sexual system) is beautiful, and unique to them. Today this is what mothers should teach their daughters, don’t be afraid to touch or explore, and share – but only if you feel like it.

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Helen says: i liked your story on the vagina. funny yesterday when i was taking my daughter to the bathroom she pointed to her clit and asked what was it? ( she is 3) i said thats your clitors. she looks at me with a big smile and said i touch it becouse it feels good! i smiled and said good and you can keep on doing that if you want. i feel if more woman knew about their boddies we would not have so many sexual problems in this world! i agree with you on teaching our daughters about their boddies! i feel as mothers we should teach our sons about the female body too!

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