If Vaginas Could Talk

If Vaginas Could Talk

If Your Vagina Could Talk, It Would Want You To Know This

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Your lady garden has a few things it’d like you to know. And it ain’t all pretty…
Do you know how amazing your vagina is? Let’s go back a bit — do you know exactly where your vagina is? A lot of people say “vagina” to mean everything down there in your lady garden, but your actual vagina is the canal between your cervix and your hymen. The external female sex organs, such as your clitoris, the inner and outer lips, your urethra… that’s your vulva. But let’s go with the familiar, all-encompassing term “vagina.”
Your vagina wants you to know stuff. Know, for example, that there are natural remedies that you should never put in your vagina . And there are other, not-so-natural things that also do not belong in your vagina, such as electric toothbrushes (!). Your vagina also wants your appreciation; it is, after all, an extraordinary asset and there’s probably a lot more you don’t know about it. Here are seven things that your vag wants to tell you.
Should vaginas look a “certain” way? “ There is absolutely no abnormal vagina; unless we are born with a congenital malformation, they are all normal [and] come in all shapes and sizes,” advises Dr. Carolyn DeLucia , a New Jersey-based OB/GYN and advisor to Remedy Review . “The size of the clitoral hood, the size of the clitoris, the size of the labia menorah, the size of the labia majora — all vary from woman to woman. We are like snowflakes. No two are alike.”
It’s true; childbirth can change the way a vagina looks and feels. “The vagina tends to be stretched with childbirth,” DeLucia explains. “Some women will bounce back and it is difficult to tell they ever had a baby. Others will never be the same. Sometimes women will tear or require an episiotomy to aid with delivery.” Physical therapy for your vagina can help with some of these (and other) issues.
Opinion is divided on this, with some believing that putting yogurt in your vagina is a natural fix for yeast infections and others saying that yogurt may not address the type of bacteria that causes your particular yeast infection. “ The way that yogurt can help treat a yeast infection is by supplying us with active cultures of the bacteria that are needed to naturally coat our intestines and then find their way into the natural bacterial biome of the vagina,” says DeLucia. “These are lactobacilli acidophilus. Therefore buying a yogurt with active cultures is the desired type.” Or, you could just buy some over-the-counter remedy, or get a prescription from your doc.
Do you know what your vaginal pH is? You should. “When we refer to vaginal pH we are referring to the delicate balance of acids and bases in the vagina,” says DeLucia, who adds that bacteria in the vagina gently balances the pH levels. “T he healthiest bacteria — called lactobacilli — will produce lactic acid and keep the vagina in a slightly acidic pH. Maintaining this level is what is healthiest for us. When there is an alteration in the pH, we often will feel like we are irritated.”
The answer is… “Almost anything we eat and drink can affect our body’s pH,” DeLucia warns, including an overabundance of sugar, intercourse, and lubricants. “Soaps and perfumes are especially culprits in affecting our pH.” And speaking of which…
Women frequently worry about how they smell “down there” and turn to products like douching to change their natural scent. Don’t! Douches can mess with your vagina’s pH and cause infection — not to mention that douching has also been linked to Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) and bacterial vaginosis.
It does matter. Improper wiping isn’t so much the cause of yeast infections, but “b acterial infections of the bladder and urethra or urinary track infections can be caused by the way we wipe, because we are bringing bacteria that are around the anal area up towards the urethra or the bladder opening,” says DeLucia.
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Where to begin when talking about vaginas? - not that we did all that much of it before 1996, in public or private. Eve Ensler, the little lady who started The Vagina Monologues , changed that with this one-woman-show that she first performed perched on a wooden stool in a downtown Manhattan theater, using 4x6 cards as prompts. I took my sister to one of those early shows, and when Eve finished the operatic monologue, "Reclaiming Cunt," my sister whispered to me, joking, "She ought to be ashamed of herself." Glenn Close sat in the row behind us, as new to the material as we were.
The protean play with that word in the title is a celebration of the vagina and a searing indictment of violence against women in many forms. It's funny, heartbreaking, incendiary, empowering, and it's like nothing you've ever seen. To date, it's been performed some 10,000 times in 45 languages, in 120 countries around the world, each performance a consciousness raising event and a benefit to raise money that goes to fighting violence against women and girls in those communities.
With all this talk of vaginas, would it sound off-key to say that Eve Ensler has balls? She even co-opted Valentine's Day in 1998 -- Valentine's Day, that takes some doing! -- by calling it V-Day and using the day to encourage performances of the play, to raise more money and more awareness about violence against women. V stands for Victory, Valentine, and -- You Know What.
Thursday night was the tenth anniversary of the first V-Day, and because she has a great sense of theater and of history, Eve held the blowout benefit celebration at the sight of the original party, the exceedingly grand Hammerstein Ballroom, where Jane Fonda, Glenn Close, and Brook Shields each did a monologue and hung around for dinner and schmoozing.
It was billed as an anniversary bash and a kickoff to a major event - V To The Tenth - - that takes place in New Orleans, April 11 and 12, and that has the potential to be spectacular, both as theater and as a fundraising enterprise. The woman with the chutzpah to reclaim the word "cunt" is on a mission to do some serious healing and fundraising there - and to reclaim and rename the infamous Superdome, where two days of activism, international networking, theater, and free wellness programs, will earn it the name Superlove. Supercorny, but better than its previous incarnation. Nearby, at the New Orleans Arena, there will be a star-studded performance of the ur-play, with tickets starting at $25.
Eve had no grand ambitions when she began performing The Vagina Monologues , but so many women came up to her afterwards to confide experiences of violence and violation, she kept working the material -- and the material kept leading to new audiences, new adherents, and cascading opportunities. Those little prompt cards have become a global movement that's so far raised $50 million to fight violence against women.
It's hard to write about The Vagina Monologues or the phenomenon that is V-Day -- or the phenomenon that is Eve Ensler -- without sounding sycophantic. But there's no getting around the fact that there is true, deep, and lasting value at the center of what's going on here, and at every point along the way. What's happened as a result of this play is a tribute to the power of one person - one misbehaving woman -- to move the world. And it's a reminder of how unending, how starkly universal this problem is, the problem of men and boys committing acts of violence against women and girls -- rape, beatings, maimings, molestations, genital circumcisions.
Eve Ensler and V-Day are about rewiring men's brains by beginning to rewire women's brains. I'm not sure I believe the party line, that it's possible to end violence against women, not simply reduce it or recover from it. But there aren't too many more worthy goals, even if we can't make it happen any faster than one monologue at a time.
Elizabeth Benedict's novels include the bestseller Almost and The Practice of Deceit. She's also the author of The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers. For a free copy of her recent essay, "What I Learned About Sex on the Internet," please click here: www.elizabethbenedict.com .

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