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Vulva Vitality and Care. Without shame-free sex education as the baseline, it’s hardly a surprise that vulva care and health in general remains in the fringes of women’s health.

Vulva Vitality and Care

The western medical model has catch-all phrases like “vulvodynia” or “vulvovaginitis” but lacks clarity in offering real solutions or even getting to the root of any genital health issues. Most women don’t consider their own vulva vitality or relationship to their own genitals until there is a problem or until they intend to give birth. We can change that by learning about vulva vitality and care. Vaginal Steaming 101. So you want to give vaginal steaming (aka pelvic or yoni steaming) a try!

Vaginal Steaming 101

Why not right? It’s accessible and very low risk with many potential benefits. This post is meant to give you the basic information you need to get started. It’s a good idea to work with a practitioner who has training in this modality if you’re not sure about how it could help you or what herbs to use. Vagina Museum events — Vagina Museum. Your Cervical Mucus Is Beautiful. When Pilar Vigil peers through her microscope at the sight above, she feels like she’s swimming through a moonlit kelp garden.

Your Cervical Mucus Is Beautiful

“It’s like going under the sea,” says Vigil, an OBGYN and a professor at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. “You see all these little stars and seaweed-like appearances.” 8 Vulva Illustrations Every Woman Needs To See. Every day for the last year and a half, Hilde Atalanta has painted a picture of one vulva.

8 Vulva Illustrations Every Woman Needs To See

At first, inspiration came from her imagination; then, from the internet; and, most recently, from women who send her photos of their goods. For the Amsterdam-based illustrator who also paints full bodies and faces, vulvas are compelling portrait subjects. “You have some people who have big noses, some have small noses, but in all those standard sizes, you have a lot of these tiny differences in character—it’s the same with vulvas,” she says. A vulva, by the way, is the name for the visible part of what most people just dub "vagina. " Body Diversity is Beautiful. Warning: This article features illustrations of vulva that may not be safe for work.

Body Diversity is Beautiful

Many, many beautiful illustrations of vulva. According to illustrator Hilde Atalanta, “all vulvas are amazing and beautiful just the way they are.” Overview of the Female Reproductive System. The female reproductive system, also known as the female genital system, is made up of external and internal sex organs.

Overview of the Female Reproductive System

These sex organs and their complex functions work together to provide the female body sexual pleasure and reproductive abilities. This article offers an overview of the female sex organs and their functions beginning with external anatomy before moving on to internal anatomical structures. 1. 100 Vaginas: Laura Dodsworth. OMGYes.com - The Science of Women's Pleasure. The Labia Library. The Vulva Gallery. Treating the Incredible Shrinking Vagina. So, vaginal atrophy.

Treating the Incredible Shrinking Vagina

What’s that about? I (very tentatively) asked my general practitioner about how the whole “vagina after menopause” thing works and she was basically “yeah, that’s right, it will atrophy.” So what can be done about it, if anything? Frankly, I’m a bit sad. — Shrinking Violet. PUSSYPEDIA. Yoni Healing. — ‘This was the first time we had done Yoni Massage as part of my healing journey.

Yoni Healing

It had taken months before we did this, releasing so many other patterns. After the experience, I saw why I had done it so slowly. There was so much else I needed to see and heal before we went here. Untitled. Untitled. How Celery Juice Helps Heal UTIs, Bladder & Yeast Infections. Urinary tract infections, bacterial vaginosis, bladder infections and yeast infections...you might be wondering why these conditions are being grouped together here.

How Celery Juice Helps Heal UTIs, Bladder & Yeast Infections

The reason, as you'll discover below, is because they all have the same cause. In Medical Medium Celery Juice: The Most Powerful Medicine of Our Time Healing Millions Worldwide, I share the true cause of these conditions and how celery juice can help you heal from them. In Medical Medium Celery Juice, you'll also find out the true causes of almost 200 other chronic illnesses and symptoms and exactly how celery juice works in the body to help each one of them. You'll also read specific instructions on how to consume celery juice to ensure you receive its full benefits, plus learn additional guidance to help you move forward with healing.

A Case for Cliteracy: Sophia Wallace. Your Pussy is Not a Sheath: horizontal with a vagina whisperer — horizontal with lila. 50. your pussy is not a sheath: horizontal with a vagina whispererWelcome back to horizontal!

Your Pussy is Not a Sheath: horizontal with a vagina whisperer — horizontal with lila

I missed you. This is the podcast of intimacies recorded while lying down, wearing robes. It aims to make private conversations public in order to dispel shame, diminish loneliness, and alchemize connection. The Vagina Whisperer. Beautiful Cervix Project - Love Thy Cervix! The case for renaming women's body parts. Take a tour of the female pelvis, and you’ll encounter a few incongruous people along the way.

How did James Douglas end up tucked behind the uterus? What is Gabriel Fallopian doing hanging around the ovaries? Why is Caspar Bartholin the Younger attached to the labia? The Psychology of Stress, Orgasm, and Creativity. “The more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’” philosopher Alain de Botton argued in his meditation on sex, “the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.”

But in his attempt to counter the reductionism that frames human sexuality as a mere physiological phenomenon driven solely by our evolutionary biology, de Botton overcompensates by reducing in the opposite direction, negating the complex interplay of brain and biology, psychology and physiology, that propels the human sexual experience. That’s precisely what Naomi Wolf, author of the 1991 cultural classic The Beauty Myth, examines in Vagina: A New Biography (public library) — a fascinating exploration of the science behind the vastly misunderstood mind-body connection between brain and genitalia, consciousness and sexuality, the poetic and the scientific. CYCLES+SEX : Vaginal Tenting. It’s all about AROUSAL. And vaginal arousal comes in many forms and from many players. Anatomically speaking, there’s Clitoris, and her long, beautiful legs aka the Vestibular Bulbs and then there’s our swellers Urethral Sponge and Perineal Sponge.

They all live on the outside. And they can be stimulated for pleasure! Vulvar Anatomy - The Pudendal Nerve. The vulva is the external part of the female genitalia. It protects a woman’s sexual organs, urinary opening, vestibule and vagina and is the center of much of a woman’s sexual response. The outer and inner ‘lips’ of the vulva are called the labia majora and labia minora. OB/GYNs don’t learn the nerves and vasculature of the clitoris. There are certainly exceptions, but the lack of this anatomy in OB/GYN literature indicates a gap education.

Modern OB/GYN textbooks only show the course leading up to the clitoris (except in most recent Williams Gynecology and Williams Obstetrics, where it is shown in minimal detail but not described). Nerves (large, not difficult to dissect) and vasculature in the clitoris itself are omitted. Here is a photo of the extent of vulvar anatomy covered in the most popular gynecologic surgery textbook (Te Linde’s Operative Gynecology): If anyone doubts the accuracy of my claims, the nerves and vasculature of the clitoris are missing from every single one of these textbooks (with the exception of Williams, only as of 2016), as well as all the countless others I have checked: Beautiful Cervix Project - Love Thy Cervix! Learn the True Power of Your Lady Bits. How Happy Are Your Lady Parts? - Pelvic Pain Relief. 5 Ways To Keep Your Vagina Healthy. The Overdue, Under-Told Story Of The Clitoris.

This NSFW Instagram Account Will Change How You See Your Vulva. Clitoral Stimulation Is Important, New Research Shows. A Hidden Heart Beat: The Lesser Known ‘Vaginal Pulse’ The Clitoris: This Adorable Animation Explains Clitoris Like No One Else. Pussy Project - Healing The Feminine. Cliteracy: 21 Things Millennials Should Know About the Clitoris. Untitled. The Internal Clitoris. Womb Illumination: 7 Yoni Gateways. The Pussy Talks. Artist's Unapologetic Vagina Paintings Are A Force Of Body Positivity. The Internal Clitoris. Laüra Hollick's Yoni Art Gallery. What does “Yoni” mean to you? How to Have a Happy Vagina. Original Wondrous! Vulva Puppets - Creator of the Original Vulva Yoni Vagina Puppets/Pillows.

The Clitoris!

Vagina Dispatches episode one: the vulva – video. Vaginal Ecology: An Owner's Guide to Care & Maintenance (part 1) 'The Vulva Gallery' is a bold statement against body shamers. Vaginal Massage - How to Heal Your Sexual Being by Yourself. Youtube. The Vagina - Should It Smell This Way? - David Avocado Wolfe - DavidWolfe.com.