Vulva Not Vagina

The Great Wall of Vagina art project, by UK artist Jamie McCartney.

No, because I can’t see it. It’s INSIDE MY BODY. Do you know what your lungs look like?

This is just sad. One woman says “you should know your body better than anybody else”, yet not one of these women knew the proper names of their parts. “The hood of my vagina?”

This was a wasted opportunity to teach women who hadn’t considered their own bodies in this way before.

I don’t think I want you to touch my vagina 16 different ways.

Since Men’s Health actually mentions labia, vaginal opening, and clitoris in these "tricks”, it would help that they tell readers they’re describing the vulva, not the vagina. As a novice reading this list, I would be very confused as to what’s what.

Oh, and please don’t imagine a “wad of gum” when touching my clit.

It’s no real surprise that Cosmopolitan doesn’t care to get this right, but considering 6 of these items aren’t actually about the vagina, they should know better.

Dr. Jen Gunter is also sick and tired of people not getting basic anatomy right, so she created this handy diagram.

Not one man bats an eye when the female interviewer asks them to describe their “ideal vagina”. Was she hoping to catch them with the misnomer, or does she herself not even know the difference?

We’ll kick off this site with a short video by American sex educator, Betty Dodson, drawing the internal clitoris {which includes the opening, or ‘corona’, of the vagina}, followed by the vulva.