Beautiful woman and her vagina

It can help with body image anxiety. Now, her latest work puts vulvas and vaginas in the spotlight thanks to her new book Womanhood: The Bare Reality and forthcoming Channel 4 documentary: Vaginas. And when women share intimate photos and deeply personal experiences relating to their vaginas, the result is a tender yet taboo-exploding message of women reclaiming their womanhood. I think a part of me was shying away from that intimacy because I would have to address my own related experiences. The correct language and understanding of female genitalia is so important to me: the vulva is the whole external package, the vagina is a muscular tube which leads from the cervix the neck of the womb down to the vulva.

A woman, once insecure about her vagina, is now crusading to photograph other women's private parts in a bid to promote body positivity. Ellie Eggwick, from Queensland's Sunshine Coast, Australia, was once made to feel very conscious about her vagina by her former partner. The strong influence of the man even pushed Ellie to inquire about labiaplasty, a surgery to alter the labia minora and the labia majora, the folds of skin surrounding the human vulva, reports Daily Mail. It was only when she visited a doctor, who implored her to do research on women's vaginas that Ellie realised her genitals were perfectly normal. She also learnt that all vaginas are different and that all of them were just fine. Since then Ellie undertook the task of photographing over vaginas for a coffee table book to spread awareness on body positivity.

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The vagina is a fascinating body part—what it looks like , how it smells , even how it changes over time. Chances are, there are probably a lot of vagina facts that you don't know, so we tapped top experts to find out the most amazing—and important—things every woman should know about her vagina. The truth is, the labia majora outer lips and labia minora inner lips look different on all types of bodies. There are several general labia types but even these have plenty of variation : asymmetric inner or outer lips; curved outer lips shaped like a horseshoe ; dangling outer lips; dangling or protruding inner lips; small closed lips and small open lips.