Your vagina isn’t where you think it is, bet?

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Your vagina isn’t where you think it is, bet?

Some people are probably thinking: My goodness, what are they doing around the corner with? As if we didn’t know. BUT that’s the big problem: A lot of women know very little about their bodies. This is mainly due to deep-seated basic assumptions from school, insufficient education by parents and old taboos.

No, that’s not your vagina

It’s really scary how dark it suddenly gets when we talk about our private parts. Not only do our private parts have various strange names, but what is even more frightening: We learn misnomers – from our parents, at school, everywhere. People also like not to talk any further about what actually exists between our legs, apart from a black hole into which a man can first put his penis and through which a baby will be pressed into the world when the time comes. And that ignorance is evident in a new study that finds a quarter of American women don’t even know where the vagina is. Now some might think: “Yes, America is so prudish too…”, when I talk to my friends here, unfortunately it doesn’t look much better.

This is just unreal!

The British market research company “OnePoll” asked 2,000 women about their private parts. The results are jaw-dropping: 46% of American women don’t know where the cervix is, over half of women couldn’t identify the uterus, and a quarter have no idea where the vagina is. This is both frightening and sad, because the fact that many of us women know so little about the sex organ has reasons worth considering.

“hands out of pants”

The taboo below is something we are born with. As soon as we realize that there’s something between our legs, we’re taught that it’s something unclean that we’d rather not look at too closely and that, for reasons that aren’t explained, is something shameful. While boys happily swing their penises, draw them on walls and talk about them in the schoolyard, girls’ genitals are almost non-existent. As if they didn’t exist or that there was something down there that you shouldn’t touch under any circumstances. The icing on the cake is the naming of our genitals. Because even in school, our children still learn today that what we see down there would be called the vagina. While one is an absolutely stupid term implying that the hole between our legs is just waiting for a sword to fill it, the term vagina for the external genitalia is flat out wrong. So that this finally changes, let’s clean up here and explain what’s where.

Here are the facts:

The vagina

One of the internal sex organs. It is an approximately ten to twelve centimeters long, muscular and flexible tube that connects the external sex organs to the uterus.

The vulva

Correctly designates what most of us have mistakenly learned as a vagina: the external genitalia, i.e. everything we see and often mistakenly call a vagina. The vulva includes the inner and outer vulval lips, the mons pubis and the clitoris.

Ergo: vulva outside, vagina inside.

The uterus

Is the center of our female sex organs. This is where the egg cell migrates when it is ready for fertilization. If it is fertilized, the baby grows inside the uterus.

The ovaries

The ovaries are located in a woman’s pelvis. They are responsible for the formation of egg cells and 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 to the uterus.

The cervix

Is the lower part of the uterus that merges with the cervix into the vagina. The cervix also produces a thick, sticky mucus that acts as a barrier to sperm on the infertile days. On the fertile days, the mucus produced by the cervix becomes permeable. Depending on the phase of the cycle, most women can also feel the cervix. It feels a bit like our nose.

the cervix

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

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