Your vagina is not where you think you bet, bet?

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Your vagina is not where you think you bet, bet?

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Some people are probably thinking: My goodness, what are they doing around the corner. As if we didn't know. BUT exactly that is the big problem: very many women know very little about their bodies. This is mainly due to deep-seated basic assumptions from school days, insufficient information from parents and old taboos.

No, that is not your vagina

It's really terrifying how dark it suddenly gets when we talk about our private parts. Not only that our genitals have various strange names, but even more terrifying: We learn wrong names – from our parents, at school, everywhere. People don't like to talk about what actually exists between our legs, except for a black hole into which the man can put his penis and through which a baby is then pressed into the world at the appropriate time. And this ignorance is shown in a new study that found a quarter of American women do not know where the vagina is at all. Now some might think: "Yes, America is also so prudish …", when I talk to my friends here, it just doesn't look much better.

This is just unreal!

The British market research company "OnePoll" asked 2,000 women about their intimate areas. The results are hair pulling: 46% of U.S. women don't know where the cervix is, over half of women have been unable to identify the uterus, and a quarter have no idea exactly where the vagina is. This is terrifying and sad at the same time, because the fact that many of us women know so little about the genital organ has reasons to be considered.

"Hands out of your pants"

We are born with the taboo below. As soon as we realize that there is something between our legs, we are taught that this is something unclean, that we prefer not to look at it so closely and that for reasons that are not explained is something of shame. While boys happily swing their penises, paint them on walls and talk about them in the schoolyard, the genitals of girls are hardly existent. As if it didn't exist or if that was something down there that you definitely shouldn't touch. The icing on the cake is the naming of our genitals. Because even in school, our children are still learning today that what we see down there would be called a vagina or vagina. While one is an absolutely stupid term that implies the hole between our legs is just waiting to be filled by a sword, the term vagina for the external genitals is downright wrong. So that this finally changes, let's clean up and explain what's where.

Here are the facts:

The vagina

Belongs to the internal sexual organs. It is about ten to twelve centimeters long, muscular and flexible tube that connects the external genital organs with the uterus.

The vulva

Denotes the external sexual organs, i.e. everything we see and often incorrectly call the vagina. The vulva includes the inner and outer vulval lips, the mons pubis and the clitoris.

female genital organs

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The uterus

Is the center of our female genital organs. This is where the egg cell migrates when it is ready for fertilization. If it is fertilized, the baby will grow in the womb.

The ovaries

The ovaries are located in a woman's pelvis. They are responsible for the formation of egg cells and the female sex hormones. The fallopian tubes are also located in the woman's pelvis. They ensure that the egg cells are transported from the ovary towards the uterus.

The cervix

Is the lower part of the uterus that merges with the cervix into the vagina. The cervix also forms a tough, sticky mucus that forms a barrier against sperm on the infertile days. On the fertile days, the mucus formed by the cervix becomes permeable. Depending on the phase of the cycle, most women can also feel the cervix. It feels a little like our nose.

The cervix

The cervix is ​​the opening of the cervix into the cavity of the uterus. During pregnancy, the cervix is ​​tightly closed to prevent germs from entering.