Just like vulvas, penises look different from person to person.
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It's important to note here that vaginas, labia, vulvas, etc.
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Educational illustrations that featured vulvas, breasts, and penises were blocked.
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Add a sex toy Sex toys aren't just for vulvas!
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But IRL, not all people with vulvas enjoy receiving oral sex.
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For many people with vulvas, the answer is a resounding no.
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In Japan, uncensored pornographic images of penises and vulvas are illegal.
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The team strips off to feel more comfortable about their vulvas.
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People all over Insta have been sporting little vulvas on their hands.
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We know there's a wide variation in how people with vulvas experience orgasm.
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For some people who have vulvas, an orgasm doesn't lead to total-body relaxation.
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Sexologists even say that people with vulvas can have 14 different types of orgasm.
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Someone also decorated the ceiling, walls and tablets with images of vulvas and animals.
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There are versions made to cover vulvas as well as versions to lock up penises.
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The photographs that show Mr. Jois with his hands on students' vulvas get explained away.
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This idea of vulvas as gross wasn't just echoed by guys interviewed in the study.
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They open to reveal pink calla-lily type buds, recalling vulvas, surrounded by metal pins.
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For people who have vulvas, getting fully aroused can take up to 20 or 30 minutes.
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Worse, ignorance compounded (and justified by) the squeamish silences around vulvas have made many of them complacent.
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With this in mind, Refinery281 asked our female readers what they think about their own vulvas and vaginas.
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There's no doubt that it's a tribute to vulvas and vaginas everywhere and the people who love them.
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And these are the vulvas of real women, not just the touched up, pink ones showcased in pornography.
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A quick glance through should show you that there are plenty of other vulvas that look like yours.
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Many women, as the episode pointed out, also don&apost know what vulvas look like — different on everyone.
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In people who have vulvas, that extra blood pressure engorges the whole area, including the clitoris and the labia.
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Recently, she's been getting buzz for her project Pussyluminati (NSFW), in which she photographed models' pubic hair and vulvas.
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As it turns out, the women who saw vulvas reported feeling the most positive about their own genitals afterwards.
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Even gynecologists and plastic surgeons often have limited ideas of "normal" vulvas, which they may impress upon their patients.
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Intercourse shouldn't be painful, but a lot of people (particularly those with vulvas) say their first few times hurt.
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She often recommends young women look at unretouched photographs of vulvas, like those in the book "Petals" by Nick Karras.
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Focus on the clit As you have probably heard, for people with vulvas, orgasms are often all about the clit.
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" He sends up the sort of book parties held in art galleries with "high-res photos of vulvas on the walls.
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"Our game should not be regarded as an educational game about pleasuring vulvas," Patrick Jarnfelt writes in an email to Mashable.
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Whereas for people using sex toys who have vulvas, it's fetishized: She's going to have some solo time with her dildo.
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" #ReclaimtheNightMCR last night A post shared by Siân 🌹 (@sianhamer) on Feb 23, 2017 at 10:51pm PST "Vulvas against violence.
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And just like people with vulvas, the needs of those with penises vary from person to person, depending on their anatomy.
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For many (specifically heterosexual) women, their only opportunity to see what other vulvas look like is in porn, soft or otherwise.
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Instead, the product is presented as a way for women who feel uncomfortable with their vulvas to ease into oral sex.
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More young girls than ever before are seeking cosmetic genital surgery to address perceived problems with the appearance of their vulvas.
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The correlation between nature and womanhood as sources of life is idiomatic and pervasive, with plentiful references to butterflies, flowers, and vulvas.
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Most notably, touchscreen video lessons of sexual stimulation techniques allow users to tap and caress a variety of virtual vulvas on-screen.
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As a result, it's possible an even larger proportion of people view post-labiaplasty vulvas are more normal than pre-labiaplasty ones.
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Practice, practice, practice For many people with vulvas, learning to orgasm is a process — and it gets easier (and quicker) with practice.
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First, by exposing women to images of real vulvas, it might help them become more comfortable and confident in their own genital appearance.
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Are there other things that you wish more women did to keep their vaginas happy and healthy — and their vulvas and vestibules too?
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It's hard to imagine a future in which a mother lovingly directs her daughter to a URL to read about vulvas and pillows.
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For people who have vulvas, masturbating regularly can also exercise your pelvic floor muscles and lead to stronger orgasms in the future, Finn says.
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Read more: Slime Girls are the Sticky, Gooey Monsters of Your Wet Dreams So far, DeepCreamPy can uncensor penises and vulvas on still illustrations.
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So when two people with vulvas are having sex, I think a lot of folks don't understand how that works since there's no penis.
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But if regular orgasms are consistently harder to reach for many women, shouldn't "blue vulvas" be even more of a thing than "blue balls"?
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"It's more advantageous for penis owners to go with a lower dose, while people with vulvas have a higher threshold for cannabis," Manta explains.
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Basically, the vulvas we see in porn and other media aren't reflective of the wide variety of ones that exist in the real world.
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Marketed as a "one-of-a-kind erotic digital experience," the game features different vulvas, each with different preferences and responses to user-initiated stimuli.
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Half of the participants viewed images of other women's vulvas, while the other half viewed neutral images, such as photos of art, architecture, and nature.
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Brazilian waxes became very popular — and baldness meant better opportunities for women to actually look at (and, yes, scrutinize) the physical characteristics of their vulvas.
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The first thing viewers will notice about Garner's works is likely the omnipresence of vaginas, vulvas, and the typically concealed insides of human reproductive organs.
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But the sex toy industry has had a hard time designing toys that even kind-of imitate oral sex (at least for people who have vulvas).
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In order to address their own limitations, the two have made it their business to learn everything about the diverse variety of vulvas in the world.
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"It's designed to help people with vulvas experience amazing blended orgasms through simultaneous clitoral and G-spot stimulation, making it the ultimate multi-tasker," Cole explains.
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Legendary sex educator Betty Dodson, now 90 years old, tells Paltrow that porn actors often surgically enhance or bleach their vulvas, something Paltrow hadn't heard before.
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Although not nearly as real as the photographic vulvas featured on OMGYes, HappyPlayTime is like a sexual education video game, something girls at summer camp could play.
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According to Swann, people with vulvas don't have a post-coital refractory period, which means that they remain sensitive to sexual stimuli and can achieve further orgasms.
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In the meantime, the town's PAC plans to clarify its guidelines for future outdoor sculpture applications so that artists can't sneak any more bronze vulvas onto Main Street.
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It's a gap advocates and researchers at Benetech, a nonprofit organization specializing in tech for good, set out to solve by creating these models of various penises and vulvas.
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They can be enjoyed by queer women, bisexual women, pansexual women, or even straight-identifying women looking to explore, as well as non-binary and trans people with vulvas.
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Considered within a larger art historical narrative, however, the unsettling feeling exposes certain presumptions around gender roles, which the artist amplifies by leaving the subjects' vulvas and nipples exposed.
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These vulvas are based on photos of actual women's genitalia and, when you touch them, they respond with audio feedback based on scientific research into what women find pleasurable.
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Vulvas emblazoned with cherry blossoms, roses, butterflies, and irises take their place as wonders of the natural world in Salt Lake City artist Jacqueline Secor's expressive mixed-media paintings.
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When she got back to work after her break, her clients complained about wax flying around the room and about her accidentally bruising and leaving burns on their vulvas.
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As of writing, the tweet has more than 100,000 likes and people are chiming with their own experiences of sexual partners who weren't familiar with the layout of their vulvas.
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In people who have vulvas, it has branches in the clitoris, the anus, and the perineum (the area between the anus and the vulva or the anus and the penis).
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"Women's accounts of oral-vulva contact were dominated by talk about their anxieties about their vulvas being sensed (seen, smelled, tasted), judged, and discussed by men," the study's authors write.
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" Even back then, he always visualized the sort of cinematic life he has now, with several Warhols on the wall, including a triptych of vulvas and a "Big Electric Chair.
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But, there is so much drama unfolding during the set piece that you may not be able to notice that the vulvas come in all different shapes, sizes, and lengths.
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After 1974, her depictions of women ranged from the primordial — with women opening their vulvas to the viewer (a suitably "unsuitable" image, perhaps) — to Greco-Roman (elegant warriors and goddesses).
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There are Sheelas in the collection of the National Museum of Ireland whose vulvas have been worn to a nub from medieval churchgoers rubbing them as part of a religious ceremony.
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For example, in a 2013 study, researchers found that men who sniffed scents obtained from women's armpits and vulvas demonstrated a subsequent rise in levels of the hormones testosterone and cortisol.
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The MTA is prioritizing ad space for tools that make sex better for men/people with penises – but ignoring all of the many benefits of tools for women/people with vulvas.
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Inside the grand matrix sits a three-sided dinner table topped with 39 place settings, most crafted to recall vulvas, and all dedicated to a mythical and historical woman from history.
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Women of color generally have naturally darker labia than white women, who make up the majority of popular porn performers and thus the majority of vulvas that we see in media.
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Introducing sex toys into your relationship can be lots of fun, and vibrators particularly solve the pesky problem that many people with vulvas need clitoral stimulation along with penetration to get off.
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The latest collection, called "My P—y, My Choice," featured over-the-top garments adorned with small and large renderings of everything from vulvas to boobs, adorning boots, gowns, pumps and more.
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For Connell, referring to male masturbation only in terms of penises, female masturbation only in terms of vulvas, and leaving non-binary students out of the equation altogether, teachers can stigmatize trans youth.
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That completely leaves out queer women who are having oral sex with each other, straight or bisexual men who perform oral sex on vulvas, and anyone who's having anilingus (oral sex on the anus).
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These are mostly female spirits and deities like Apsara, Basanti and Yogini, but also audaciously erotic renderings of vulvas and phalluses, which are further redolent of the sacred yoni and lingam from ancient iconographies.
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At this point, it was clear that the battle was over the taboo surrounding periods and menstrual blood; women just didn't want to touch their vulvas and vaginas, making the cup an unattractive option.
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Instead of telling women to steam clean and insert foreign objects into their lady bits to make them better, it emphasizes the message that vulvas and vaginas are great, just the way they are.
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Last year, the interactive website OMGYES launched with a series of instructional videos on female sexual pleasure coupled with unique touchable technology that allows users to interact with simulated vulvas on their smartphones or tablets.
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For instance: vibrators, which by and large are designed for vulvas, but most of the sex toy designers and engineers I'm aware of are men; which isn't surprising given male domination of the engineering industry.
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In this piece, strips of silicone in varying shades of brown replicate breasts, navels, and vulvas taken from the bodies of Black women; Garner has stapled them together to create a monstrous Betsy Ross flag.
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Considering that the vast majority of people with vulvas require external stimulation (or external paired with internal stimulation) to achieve orgasm, it's worth asking yourself if you're giving oral sex the attention to detail it deserves.
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"When young people (especially people with vulvas) learn about their own genitals through self-touch they are much more likely to be clear about what they want and like from and with their partners," Rayne said.
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Thanks to the dismal state of sex education in the U.S., a lot of people — those of us who have vulvas, included — aren't too sure what a vulva actually looks like or where to find the clitoris.
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With cave art, there came sketches of reclining female nudes on walls of the La Magdelaine caves from 15,000 BC. When Sumerians discovered how to write cuneiform on clay tablets, they filled them with sonnets to vulvas.
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Building up one's arousal in this way also allows people with vulvas time to warm up, and increases the chances that they'll have their own orgasm—should their partner decide to grant them one, you kinky birds.
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A world away from violating our vulvas with arsenic and burning ourselves at the follicle, we are getting much closer to lacerating societal ideals about what our bodies should look like in order to be accepted or desired.
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The memory of the girl came rushing back to her, and that's when she started what many think is a shocking project: making portraits of the vulvas of women who've experienced cutting, to expose the practice of FGM.
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When Huda Beauty, the company founded by Instagram beauty guru Huda Kattan, published a blog post instructing people on how to lighten their vulvas, the backlash was immediate and intense: "Vaginal lip darkening is NATURAL," one commenter wrote.
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Because tapping and rubbing one of OMGYes's virtual reality vulvas certainly won't equip you to "blow any woman away in bed," but breaking taboos with conversation might — as long as people can take it off-screen and get real.
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This wasn't a fleeting effect, either—when the researchers followed up with these women two weeks after they saw the slideshow, those who viewed vulvas continued to report more comfort with their bodies than those who saw neutral images.
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Last Friday, all six episodes of her television show, "The Goop Lab," started streaming on Netflix so that our aunts can all learn about the Wim Hof Method, energy healing sessions, and the color palettes of their own vulvas.
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Some vulvas are big (like some cats are big), some are small (like some cats are small), some have a lot of hair (like this fluffy cat) and some don't have any (like this hairless cat.) You get the gist.
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For all three women who were photographed, it was the first time they had ever shown their vulvas to someone (outside of midwives; it is even taboo for husbands to look directly) and the first time they had ever looked themselves.
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"Many young men's accounts of the additional costliness of their giving oral sex to women (compared with the costs for women of giving to men) referred to vulvas negatively — as 'dirty,' 'disgusting,' 'nasty,' 'droopy,' 'messy,' 'saggy,' 'stinking,'" the study's authors write.
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Later, he began to back the canvas with black fabric, so the incisions could be read as entries to dark, intimate interiors (some observers have likened the cuts to vulvas and stigmata) or as portals to outer space, the cosmic Void.
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"We've been in this moment, for about 15 to 20 years, where oral sex is positioned as the height of pleasure for people with vulvas," says Lux Alptraum, author of Faking It: The Lies Women Tell About Sex—And The Truths They Reveal.
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While all orgasms feel pretty amazing to most people and none are inherently better than others, there are some major differences between the types of orgasms people who have vulvas can feel — mainly, that they can come from several different kinds of stimulation.
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"It's actually not uncommon for me to have a patient in their 60s come in to my office having never looked at their vulvas before," says Sheila Loanzon, DO, a board-certified Ob/Gyn and author of the book Yes, I Have Herpes.
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Haddock said four other devices are in the pipeline, one specifically for clitoral stimulation, another for clitoral and vaginal stimulation, one for anywhere on the body and the other, she said, is a different approach to the way people with vulvas masturbate.
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Very Intelligent Ecommerce Inc, the company behind the Autoblow, could easily argue that they're in line with Kickstarter's maker focused philosophy, but their lowbrow marketing strategies—including a penchant for "beauty contests" for vulvas, scrotums, and buttholes—don't quite align with Kickstarter's family-friendly vibe.
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While I admit this is anecdotal data, my years of listening to secret shame about healthy vaginas and vulvas seems to suggest it is largely, if not entirely, male partners who exploit vaginal and vulvar insecurities as a weapon of emotional abuse and control.
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And the exhibition, with its 150 objects — many of them sculptures created in plaster, or from women's stockings and tights stuffed with fluff — is populated with penises and with cigarettes penetrating buttocks, rather than the breasts and vulvas modern artists used to demonstrate their edginess.
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There's a vast variety of vulvas out in the world, and the Dame team quickly realized that a sample set of two—or even a few more, if they recruited some willing friends as testers—wasn't enough to guarantee universal success for anyone interested in their product.
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And this exhibition, with its 150 objects — many of them sculptures created in plaster or from women's stockings and tights stuffed with fluff — is populated with penises and with cigarettes penetrating buttocks, rather than the breasts and vulvas modern artists have used to demonstrate their edginess.
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And this exhibition, with its 7183 objects — many of them sculptures created in plaster or from women's stockings and tights stuffed with fluff — is populated with penises and with cigarettes penetrating buttocks, rather than the breasts and vulvas modern artists have used to demonstrate their edginess.
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And this exhibition, with its 53493 objects — many of them sculptures created in plaster or from women's stockings and tights stuffed with fluff — is populated with penises and with cigarettes penetrating buttocks, rather than the breasts and vulvas modern artists have used to demonstrate their edginess.
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Some people who have vulvas naturally have more hymenal tissue than others, according to Planned Parenthood, so penetrative sex — meaning penis-in-vagina sex, fingering, or using an internal sex toy like a dildo or strap-on — might be more painful for them than others because it can stretch the hymen.
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"Ad space is prioritized for tools that make sex better for men/people with penises — but ignores all of the many benefits of tools for women/people with vulvas (they're a tool for low libido, abuse survivors, and cancer patients, to name just a few!)," she explained in an email.
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"Stieglitz is reading into Brigman's photographs his East Coast brand of modernism, which is very different than her West Coast brand of modernism," said Ms. Wolfe, the curator, pointing to Brigman's "The Cleft in the Rock," a photograph whose prominent gash is reminiscent of O'Keeffe's flower paintings and often compared to vulvas.
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After all those years at "SNL," she's an absolute master at rescuing laughs from overlong sketches that run themselves into the ground — she does more with a lock-pick and a banana in this movie than Henson accomplishes with 50 hypersexual puppets and all the hand-sewn vulvas an R-rating can buy.
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We saw the soon-to-be leader of the free world brush off his hot-mic boasts of sexual assault as "locker-room talk" and the voters who carried him to the White House cheer the death of political correctness, where "political correctness" is the social barrier between America's 156 million vulvas and Donald Trump's tiny hands.
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Sex workers are often asked by laypeople how they navigate emotional vulnerability under trying conditions: clients who start sentences with, "I'm not racist, but"; those who won't stop talking about the "hideous" vulvas of other providers they've seen; guys who spend the entire time you're fucking them in the ass warning that you'd better not think they're gay.
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One part of our bodies – namely our vaginas (interior) and vulvas (exterior) – are a hot topic right now, being the subject of documentaries like Channel 4's recent 226 Vaginas, books such as Lynn Enright's Vagina: A Re-Education (published this month) and some landmark studies confirming that there is no such thing as "normal" labia, they come in all shapes, sizes and colours.
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The same is true for vulvas and vaginas (quick anatomy lesson: "vagina" is sometimes used as a catch-all term for a woman's pelvic area, but it's technically only the muscular canal — the outer parts make up the vulva.) While there are vital ways you should be taking care of your vaginal health, including routine gynecologist appointments, practicing safe sex, and monitoring any unusual bleeding or pain, vaginal self-care can mean anything from laser hair removal to a daily wash to simply wearing a comfortable pair of underwear.
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