Vagina Watching Is A Thing
We're not talking men, tube socks, and Jergens, either.
Check out this headline from VICE -- and P.S. These are a woman's words:
I Stared at Strangers' Vaginas at a Vulva Watching Workshop
Right. Technically, it's the vulva they're watching -- the name for the outer parts you can see. But I try to write the way people talk, which sometimes means ditching what's correct.
Rebecca Baden writes at VICE:
According to a study by the German Society of Intimate Surgery and Genital Aesthetics, roughly half of all women completely dislike their genitals. "We live in an over-sexualized society," Jasmin tells me. "Our generation watches a lot of online porn, and from that, we're taught what a perfect pussy is meant to look like. Which is bullshit." Laura hopes that through these workshops, women will learn to approach their bodies more openly, confidently, and beyond mainstream porn and gender stereotypes.Back in Laura's living room, we are preparing for the vulva watching session. "I've never really looked at my vulva," one of the participants admits to nods of agreement. Two minutes later, we are all naked.
I lay down on my back with my hands on my belly, and Jasmin kneels in front of me. After a few moments, I realize that being naked doesn't really bother me that much. I know and like my vulva--we've stared at each other through a mirror a lot. I can't really relate to the other women who haven't inspected their own because I was 7 years old when I first became curious about my body. I've even encouraged ex-boyfriends to have long, un-sexual exploration sessions with my vulva. Allowing a stranger to inspect it almost feels like a natural next step.
I don't "dislike" my genitals. I don't give them the slightest bit of thought. And I've seen plenty of porn and dirty pictures.
I just realize that a guy who wants to have sex with you will not get you all undressed, only to go "What the hell is that thing?!!"
There's something really weird that's happened to women. While shouting, "Crack that glass ceiling!" so many have become these emotionally fragile little baby bird people. Some women are so pathetic in their emotional neediness, you want to offer them an incubator to sleep in.
I suspect the supposed emotional fragility a form of attention-getting. (It's easier to have all of these special needs that must be dealt with than to go out there compete in the marketplace and make something of yourself.)
More from the piece:
Two hours later, the workshop is over. By the end, everyone admits they feel that their boundaries have become a tiny bit more flexible. For some, it was being naked in front of strangers that did it; for others, it was talking about their feelings, while a few had initially found it hard to keep their eyes open while staring at another woman's vulva.I left feeling both satisfied and with a newfound respect for feminist projects focused on making women feel more beautiful and valued. "We all want to be visible," Jasmin summarized later. "That can be a challenge at first, but it can also be healing."
If you need to talk about your vagina (and/or vulva) and have a little MAACO inspection session with other women to feel okay about yourself, you really need to do some volunteer work or something. Because while your head isn't technically up your ass, it's in close enough proximity for its exact location to not make all that much difference.
via @CHSommers
♫♪ Nothing could be finer
Than to be in her vagina
In the mooooooornin' ♪♫
Meh. Doesn't work.
Patrick at June 23, 2017 10:58 PM
You should try it again, Patrick.
Crid at June 24, 2017 12:53 AM
Recently, I've come to think that virtue-signaling explains a lot. But that was signaling to others of the Right Sort.
Is there virtue-signaling to oneself? Is there such a thing?
Richard Aubrey at June 24, 2017 6:08 AM
It used to be about relationships and feelings, now it is "my vajayjay this and my vajayjay that".
I just realize that a guy who wants to have sex with you will not get you all undressed, only to go "What the hell is that thing?!!"
I'm sure more than a few transwomen have heard that.
I R A Darth Aggie at June 24, 2017 6:39 AM
Meh. Doesn't work.
Patrick at June 23, 2017 10:58 PM
Worked well for me :)
Michelle at June 24, 2017 6:57 AM
Crid:
I know what you did there, Crid. And you're a jerk.
I wish someone could impress upon you that it just doesn't work that way. There is no mental game or medication I could take that could grant me the ability to have penetrative sex with a woman. Just the thought of it induces the flaccid reign.
Before gay marriage was made legal by the stunning instance of judicial activism known as Obergefell v. Hodges, how well I remember your simplistic (and frankly ignorant) comments on gay marriage.
"You wanna get married? Kiss a girl!"
You really think it works that way? You really think there's some switch in my head I could flip, and the weenie will wax rigid at the thought of making love with a beautiful woman?
The sad part of it is, some guys actually do as you suggest, and the results are disastrous. You'll find them at gay clubs. You can tell because of the tan lines on their left ring fingers.
That is, when they're not getting arrested for lewd and lascivious conduct because they did something ... inappropriate in their gym's steamroom.
If their poor wives only knew. Ladies, do you have husbands that spend three and a half hours at the gym every night, and they're not taking anabolic steroids and look more like the Michelin Man than Schwarzenegger in his prime?
Do you ever wonder why it takes so long for them to get a workout in, when a properly focused workout should only take 45 minutes tops?
I can tell you why that is, but you might want to sit down for the answer.
Just as an aside, I love the law's fixation with redundant terminology like "lewd and lascivious conduct."
I realize that the words have certain nuance that distinguishes them, but the overlap in the definitions is so abundant, that it simply isn't possible to be lewd without being lascivious, or vice-versa.
"Your Honor, my client was lascivious, but he was not lewd!"
Patrick at June 24, 2017 7:29 AM
If you're going to a "vulva watching workshop," you're likely not going to "crack that glass ceiling" anyway. The upper reaches of the corporate world are not for the faint of heart. Both the men and women I've met who made it there, were not fixated on hating or learning to like their own genitals. They had more important things to do. And, if they were, they kept it to themselves.
Conan the Grammarian at June 24, 2017 8:01 AM
If there isn't a ladybit that looks more alike from one specimen to another, I don't know what it is.
Well, navels, maybe. But I suspect they've graduated from gazing at theirs, or other peoples'.
Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail dot com) at June 24, 2017 8:51 AM
Pattybunny, you humorless little dwarf: The distinctive characteristic of your persona is infantilism, not preference. Somebody drops a (conversational) biscuit on the sidewalk, and you whip out a checkered tablecloth and a candelabra, because you're eager to sit down and call it an intimate dinner... You've been waiting all day to tell people how your sexuality works in excruciating, witless detail, apparently presuming that [A.] other adults are as fascinated with your interiors as are you in your 4th-grade oblivion, and that [B.] they have none of their own... You seriously believe you discovered sexual identity.
And get this: To whatever extent there is such a thing as a "gay culture" in American life, this narcissism typifies it perfectly:
> you might want to sit down
> for the answer.
Child, the rest of us see not a daring, courageous, resilient contingent of renegade truth-tellers, but a stilted, mundane klatsch of needy-ninnies.
For nearly fifteen years on this blog, you've been stumbling this way. You've gotta be closer to fifty than fifteen at this point, and you really oughta grow out of it.
SHIT, pilgrim. Get over yourself.
Crid at June 24, 2017 8:53 AM
And as always, when confronted by someone who tells him that the world is not what he thinks it is or should be, Crid has a tedious hissy.
The more aggravated he is, the more flowery and long-winded his rhetoric becomes. Has anyone else noticed that?
Just giving his comment the cursory once-over (which is once over the amount it deserves), his latest reads like it was written on vellum with a peacock quill dipped in perfume.
Patrick at June 24, 2017 9:17 AM
I must be utterly (or should I say, Udderly) out of touch with other women in the USA. I cannot imagine wanting to gaze at any woman's private parts, and yeah, I've watched plenty of porn in my day.
Sexuality is only a tiny part of our lives. It is no more important than spirituality or creativity or any other part of our beings.
And I must admit, I only looked at my privates in a mirror one time, many years ago, when some asshole boyfriend said I should shave my pubic hair off.
What a freaking nightmare that was! Itched for a month afterwards. Gah.
Beth Donovan at June 24, 2017 9:55 AM
The more aggravated he is, the more flowery and long-winded his rhetoric becomes. Has anyone else noticed that?
Yes, as I recall I referred to it as a gossamer lattice work of bullshit
lujlp at June 24, 2017 10:46 AM
I hope they didn't actually spend money on this nonsense.
Pirate Jo at June 24, 2017 11:01 AM
Yes, as I recall I referred to it as a gossamer lattice work of bullshit.
I know I don't often say this to you, lujlp, but that is brilliant.
Patrick at June 24, 2017 11:08 AM
"MAACO inspection session" made me laugh. Thank you.
Kevin at June 24, 2017 12:42 PM
Then there's the classic: "I Went to a Female Masturbation Class":
https://www.thecut.com/2012/11/i-went-to-a-female-masturbation-class.html
A bunch of guys sitting in a circle jerking off - weird. A bunch of women sitting in a circle jerking off - apparently not weird but empowering, if the article is to be believed.
Snoopy at June 24, 2017 3:05 PM
"I wish someone could impress upon you that it just doesn't work that way."
How can you spend so much time on here and not know when you're being trolled?
Newsflash: Crid knows that. Just in case his reply didn't say it plainly enough.
I'm guessing you're having a tough time recently. Sorry about that, really I am.
Radwaste at June 24, 2017 9:02 PM
Raddy: Props. ☑
This is a tough room sometimes... Neither sincerity nor irony will cut through to some people.
Crid at June 24, 2017 10:33 PM
> It is no more important than
> spirituality or creativity or
> any other part of our beings.
These judgments need not be made in haste. Let's think it over for a couple thousand more generations, then we'll talk it over.
M'kay? Patience, reflection.
Crid at June 24, 2017 10:37 PM
Hi Patrick.
It wasn't until nearly twenty hours later that I saw that your goofiness was exactly the topic of Amy's blog post. All of life's a circle, you know? Fractal truths, eternal mysteries.
Crid at June 24, 2017 10:50 PM
No, Crid wasn't trolling, sweetcheeks. He had a meltdown. And Crid can speak for himself about what he knows.
I don't think Crid really wants you as his apologist. I know I sure wouldn't. Frankly, your sycophantic attitude toward him is repulsive and mildly creepy.
Patrick at June 25, 2017 3:37 AM
I dont find vulvas attractive, either, but as Im not their target audience, it has never worried me.
Momof4 at June 25, 2017 9:05 AM
I wonder if these classes are ADA compliant. "I'm visually impaired so I will be needing the accommodation of feeling what others are staring at." (pondering)
BlogDog at June 25, 2017 11:39 AM
"Frankly, your sycophantic attitude toward him is repulsive and mildly creepy. "
Crid? Meltdown?
Not in evidence. Please also note that I can admire prose without agreeing with the content. Maybe you have trouble with that. Maybe you have trouble noting that I agree with many things each of you have said while wondering aloud what lunacy would lead you to another opinion on a different issue.
Obviously you're having memory problems... Sorry about that as well. Not the first time this has happened... I remember a dispute about Silver Stars.
Radwaste at June 25, 2017 11:54 AM
{"You should try it again, Patrick."} = meltdown?
See? Doesn't work.
Radwaste at June 25, 2017 11:55 AM
No, Rad, you perpetually clueless and boring twit. I'm referring to long, tedious, excessively flowery post that followed. Objectively, a meltdown.
As for the rest of your tripe, I'm not interested enough to bother responding to it. You may go back to fellating Crid.
Patrick at June 25, 2017 12:01 PM
Your responses are so often belated, theatrical, incompetent and self-defeating.
Crid at June 26, 2017 12:02 AM
That's nice, Crid. Go away.
And just an FYI: You can put links in your posts directed at me, but I'm not going to click on links given to me by someone who hates me, y'know?
That would be stupid.
Patrick at June 26, 2017 5:01 AM
"I dont find vulvas attractive, either, but as Im not their target audience."
I LOL'ed, because I am aware that some ladies are now having surgery on those bits to get them "perfect". I'm not at all sure what the concept of "perfect" is, other than that it seems to consist mainly of removing anything that is externally visible, I guess so that one can be a perfect nude Barbie doll with no apparent genitals at all. And they'll blame it on men, but I can assure you that that is not what men care about. Men are like: "Oh hey, there it is! Let's go!"
Cousin Dave at June 26, 2017 7:05 AM
C.D., one would hope so, but there's plenty of gossip, at least, to suggest that, just as American men are now repelled by female underarm hair in a way they didn't used to be 50-60 years ago, so they also expect women to shave down there all the time because that's what porn models now do. It's not that hard to imagine that surgery would be the next step - especially for those women who have given birth even only once.
And even when women DO shave (or at least bathe daily), again, the rumor is that plenty of heterosexual American men are still repelled by the idea of giving oral sex, even though there's no choking factor involved, unlike with the male version.
lenona at June 26, 2017 9:41 AM
> That would be stupid.
In other words, you peeked.
Crid at June 26, 2017 6:56 PM
You did, right, Pattles?
You totally did.
I knew you would.
Crid at June 27, 2017 1:10 PM
"No, Rad, you perpetually clueless and boring twit."
Really? Hmm.
Check the last few comments. That's just one example.
Radwaste at June 28, 2017 4:22 PM
Lenona, I don't refute your take on the reading you've done.
I'm just writing to say, quite literally, for fucks sake, any woman worried that her secretions aren't going to be pleasing is not in a good position to enjoy sex.
Sweat happens, hormones happen, showers can also happen, and the odds of good sex ensuing are better if at least one person in the pair has the confidence and diplomacy to suggest a shower where a fresh start might be the best start.
If you have to pretend that a vagina is a sterile environment, "do not pass go, do not collect $200," you are not going to win at this.
Michelle at June 28, 2017 11:34 PM
I'm just writing to say, quite literally, for fucks sake, any woman worried that her secretions aren't going to be pleasing is not in a good position to enjoy sex.
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I would hardly deny that. Plenty of women, in the 60s and 70s, used to be brainwashed into believing that douches (which are NOT good for women) were necessary if they wanted men to touch them at all. (Of course, they weren't used for the purpose of oral sex - I'd guess they taste terrible.)
My point was that of course everyone should assume, unless told otherwise by the one you want, that regular showers are mandatory if you want men OR women to be attracted to you. BUT...there's only so much discomfort anyone should be forced to suffer, and anyone knows that shaving down there is highly irritating for days, which would clearly interfere with enjoyment of sex. (I remember that even Bill Maher spoke out against women who shave that way - he just said it was a turn-off for him, IIRC.)
lenona at June 29, 2017 11:06 AM
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