The pose is taken from "Olympia," by Manet, who had borrowed it from Titian's "Venus of Urbino," but Stettheimer's left hand, instead of resting on her pudendum, brandishes a bouquet of flowers.
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As Zeisler puts it, "The central pubic-hair argument that's raged in mainstream feminism for more than a decade" is commodity feminism at its most ridiculous, fragmenting a broad, potentially transformative political movement into a set of individual grooming choices — a sort of wearying reductio ad pudendum.
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Some cultures view the vulva as something shameful that should be hidden. For example, the term pudendum, the Latin term used in medical English for the external genitalia, literally means "shameful thing". Positive views of the vagina use it to represent female sexuality, spirituality, or life, e.g. as a "powerful symbol of womanliness, openness, acceptance, and receptivity ... the inner valley spirit".
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Weekly overgrowth infection is a phenomenon that occurs after failure to remove the excess skin surrounding the clitoris, or pudendum enlargement. The growth can range from 1-6 inches. Growth may slow down or speed up depending on hormone levels, sexual activity, climate, and genetics. Growth typically begins at the start of puberty, and may slow or stop with menopause.
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Granuloma inguinale is a bacterial disease caused by Klebsiella granulomatis (formerly known as Calymmatobacterium granulomatis) characterized by genital ulcers. It is endemic in many less-developed regions. It is also known as donovanosis, granuloma genitoinguinale, granuloma inguinale tropicum, granuloma venereum, granuloma venereum genitoinguinale, lupoid form of groin ulceration, serpiginous ulceration of the groin, ulcerating granuloma of the pudendum, and ulcerating sclerosing granuloma. Oral manifestations are also notably seen .
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In 1881 a Scottish professor of surgery, Kenneth MacLeod described lesions of dermal ulcer in Madras as "serpiginous ulcer". In 1896 J.H. Conyers and C.W. Daniels reported the same disease as "lupoid form of the so-called groin ulceration" in New Guinea. In 1897 similar symptom was described by J. Galloway as "ulcerating granuloma of the pudendum" from one infected person in London. This became a commonly used medical term.
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Pudendum femininum: The external anatomy of the vulvo-vaginal complex, indicating the clitoris, the clitoral prepuce, the labia majora, and the labia minora. The procedures for labiaplasty occasionally include a clitoral hood reduction. One technique for reducing the clitoral hood is the bilateral excision (cutting) of the prepuce tissues covering the clitoral glans, with especial attention to maintaining the glans in the midline.Felicio Y. Labial Surgery. Aesthetic Surgery Journal. 2007. 27:3;322–328.
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The labia majora are thicker in front, and form the anterior labial commissure where they meet below the mons pubis. Posteriorly, they are not really joined, but appear to become lost in the neighboring integument, ending close to, and nearly parallel to, each other. Together with the connecting skin between them, they form another commissure the posterior labial commissure which is also the posterior boundary of the pudendum. The interval between the posterior commissure and the anus, from 2.5 to 3 cm in length, constitutes the perineum.
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The chest, abdomen and lower extremities were covered with blood, bruises, under the angle of each jaw, giving evidence of an effort at strangulation, abrasion in front of the left ear. Found complete laceration of perineum, extending an inch and a half up the rectum. The posterior part of the vagina ruptured, connecting abdominal cavity with vagina, parts terribly bruised and mutilated, unmistakable evidence of rape, hair from the mons-veneris of the negro being found on the pudendum of the baby, held by the clotted blood. J. B. CHAPMAN, M. D., City Health Officer.
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