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Size Vagina
Penis size varies more than I ever believed.
When a man agrees to play a more passive role, a woman can concentrate on her needs.
T he typical depth of a woman’s unaroused vagina ranges from 2.75 to 3.25 inches . When she becomes aroused, her vagina lengthens to measure from 4.25 to 4.75 inches .
Surprise, surprise — just like a man’s penis grows in length when he’s sexually excited, a woman’s vagina grows in depth.
Her vagina also dilates , and her clitoris and vulva increase in size . Her cervix lifts slightly to accommodate an erect penis being inserted inside her.
The average length of an erect penis is 5.16 inches long . A vagina can accept an even larger penis though.
This is because the vagina is “like a balloon,” says Lissa Rankin, MD , author of What’s Up Down There?
“Remember, the vagina was made to birth babies,” says Dr. Rankin, “so it’s exceedingly elastic.”
Christine O’Connor, MD , Director of Well-Woman and Adolescent Care at the Institute for Gynecologic Care at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, agrees.
Of the vagina, Dr. O’Connor says: “It doesn’t stay one particular size. It changes to accommodate whatever is going on at that time.”
The idea that a vagina can become permanently stretched out from too much sex is a myth used to shame sexually liberated women.
“Intercourse does not permanently stretch the vagina,” writes Michael Castleman , a sex and health writer, in his article on Psychology Today entitled, “ The Rare Truth About ‘Tight’ and ‘Loose’ Women .”
Instead, just like a penis returns to its non-erect length once a man is no longer aroused, a vagina also returns to its unaroused size.
Castleman adds: “This process, loosening during arousal and tightening afterward, happens no matter how often the woman has sex.”
Even childbirth does not stretch out a vagina permanently. While giving birth, a woman’s vagina stretches to allow a baby to pass through it. Afterward, the vagina eventually shrinks back to its pre-pregnancy state.
Still, some women report feeling “loose” after giving birth.
“The vagina can feel looser, softer and more ‘open’,” says Dr. Suzy Elneil , consultant urogynecologist and uro-neurologist at University College Hospital, London. As a means to make a vagina feel tighter again, Dr. Elneil adds, “We always recommend pelvic floor exercises.”
Pelvic floor exercises , called Kegel exercises, help tone weak muscles to create a less loose-feeling vagina.
“Kegels do, indeed, tighten the vagina, but they have nothing to do with the vaginal muscles. They strengthen the pelvic floor muscles that surround the vagina.”
The exercises also allow for more flexibility. Ellen Barnard, MSSW , co-owner of A Woman’s Touch , recommends Kegels for that reason:
“Otherwise you may find that these muscles are stiff and inflexible, which will also get in the way of comfortable penetration when you are ready to have it.”
Unfortunately, some women still buy into the myth that vaginas “stretch out” after childbirth. They allow themselves to be sold dangerous procedures by plastic surgeons, such as vaginoplasty , that promise to “tighten up” a vagina.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, however, warns against cosmetic procedure s such as vaginoplasty.
“Absence of data supporting the safety and efficacy of these procedures makes their recommendation untenable. Patients who are anxious or insecure about their genital appearance or sexual function may be further traumatized by undergoing an unproven surgical procedure with obvious risks. Women should be informed about the lack of data supporting the efficacy of these procedures and their potential complications, including infection, altered sensation, dyspareunia, adhesions, and scarring.”
Because there’s no conclusive evidence that vaginoplasty can even tighten a vagina, women should steer clear of such procedures. This is especially true, seeing that vaginoplasty is dangerous and unnecessary.
If a woman is feeling “loose,” she should just do Kegels.
Even more disturbing is the practice of the “husband stitch” — an extra suture that doctors have been known to sew into the vaginal opening following an episiotomy.
An episiotomy is a procedure that allows the baby’s head to push quickly through the vaginal opening during birth. The doctor makes an incision into the posterior wall of the vagina to create a larger opening.
When the doctor sutures the incision after the birth, some physicians put an extra stitch to tighten the vaginal opening. This is ostensibly to create more pleasure for the father, though there’s no conclusive evidence that a smaller opening fulfills that purpose.
Instead, women have complained of excruciating pain as the result of being sewn too tight after an episiotomy.
According to Stephanie Tillman, a midwife at the University of Illinois at Chicago and blogger at The Feminist Midwife :
“The fact that there is even a practice called the husband stitch is a perfect example of the intersection of the objectification of women’s bodies and healthcare. As much as we try to remove the sexualization of women from appropriate obstetric care, of course the patriarchy is going to find its way in there.”
Dr. Heather Rupe , a board-certified OB/GYN in Tennessee, also warns against the practice of stitching up a woman’s vaginal opening after an episiotomy to be smaller than it is naturally.
“Sexual function is not related to the tightness of the skin, but rather, the underlying muscle tone of the pelvis. So, adding unnecessary tension to the skin at the vaginal opening is not going to improve anyone’s sexual satisfaction — it’s only going to cause the woman pain.”
So again, to “tighten” a woman’s vagina after birth, Kegel exercises are the answer, not a “husband stitch.”
Sometimes a woman’s vagina can be “too tight” though. This is typically the case when a woman isn’t aroused enough.
According to Michael Castleman in his article on the subject :
“Most women require at least 30 minutes of sensuality — kissing, hugging, and mutual massage — for their vaginas to relax enough to allow the penis to slide in comfortably.”
Otherwise, when a man penetrates a woman, she will be “too tight” and this will cause pain for her.
Unfortunately, the mythical “tight” vagina of the virgin female has more to do with her fear of being penetrated for the first time than it does with her vagina’s structure.
Men should not aim to penetrate a woman until she’s ready.
“A man who attempts intercourse before the woman is fully aroused — before her vagina has relaxed and become well lubricated — is either sexually unsophisticated or a boor.”
Though vaginal size does vary between women, just like penis size does for men, satisfaction during sex has more to do with communication between partners than it does with the size of either partner’s genitalia.
Size doesn’t matter. Adequately turning on your partner and selflessly helping them to achieve orgasm does.
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While there's tons of info out there to help you figure out if your breasts are normal (not to mention visual evidence), vaginas are pretty mysterious. It’s difficult to get solid facts about your lady-garden. So we turned to Brook McFadden, M.D., assistant professor in the division of female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery at The Ohio State University, to get the scoop.
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The thing that makes it hard to figure out how you compare: Barely anyone has studied va-jay-jay sizes. McFadden, whose focus is on how vulva measurements can influence body image, is on a mission to change that. In her most recent research, she replicated scientist Jillian Lloyd’s study " Female genital appearance: normality unfolds " from the May 2005 issue of the British Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology . It measured the private parts of 50 women who were going to the gynecologist for reasons other than pelvic dysfunction. To build on that research, McFadden studied 168 women, median age 57 years, using the same technique as Lloyd—so the scientific world can start to bank important information about women’s bodies. Here’s what the abstract of her study, which appeared earlier this year in Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology , has to say about what's up down there (the full study text isn't available yet since it hasn't been published).
These are the smaller, inner lips that surround your vaginal opening. When it comes to width, McFadden (who prefers her research be noted in centimeters) found that the left labia minora was an average of 2.1 centimeters wide, with a range of 0.4 to 6.4 centimeters. The right was an average of 1.9 centimeters wide, with a range of 0.3 to 7.0 centimeters. And how long were they? The left labia minora was an average of 4.0 centimeters long (about the size of a baby carrot) with a range of 1.2 to 7.5 centimeters, while the right labia minora was an average of 3.8 centimeters long and ranged from 0.8 to 8.0. Notice anything interesting there?
For starters, labia minora come in wildly different lengths from woman to woman. Second, the two sides aren’t the same! “There is a statistically significant difference between the left and right labia minora, which shows that it’s normal if yours are different sizes,” says McFadden. The only time you should really worry about yours is if you experience a lot of chafing or rubbing to the point where you become uncomfortable. “That’s the time to go in and get evaluated,” says McFadden. If you’re considering a surgical labia modification for cosmetic reasons, researchers don’t even know if it improves self-image. “There’s no valid data on that, so it’s a very controversial topic,” says McFadden.
These are like the parentheses around your labia minora. As the outer lips, they bookend the awesomeness that is the rest of your external reproductive anatomy. The participants’ labia majora were both an average of 8.1 centimeters long (about the size of a bottle of nail polish), with a range of 4.0 to 11.5 centimeters. As you get older , your labia minora and majora both become smaller, according to the abstract. Interesting, right?
Much like the rest of your anatomy, there’s a pretty broad variation when it comes to your pleasure button . In McFadden’s study, clitoral width ranged from 0.2 to 2.5 centimeters with an average of 0.8. Participants had a clitoral length of anywhere from 0.4 to 4.0 centimeters, with an average of 1.6 centimeters (a bit smaller than the button on your jeans). One especially interesting finding is that “increased clitoral width was associated with likelihood of orgasm during intercourse,” says the abstract. So if you’re hitting the jackpot almost every time, you may have been blessed with a wider clitoris than women who have an easier time getting off in other ways.
Your Vaginal Canal
McFadden’s findings on the vaginal canal haven’t been presented yet, but in the meantime, she thinks it makes sense to follow the guidelines for length from the 2005 study. They found that the average length of a vagina is 9.6 centimeters (about the length of a tube of lip gloss), while the range is between 6.5 and 12.5 centimeters. As for the width, the most recent research is from a 1995 (yes, seriously!) paper in Obstetrics & Gynecology called “ Vaginal anatomy and sexual function .” Still, even though it isn’t recent, McFadden is comfortable with its assertion that the range for vaginal diameter is 2.1 to 3.5 centimeters. “One thing to note is that only two women with diameters of 2.1 were sexually active, and both had pain with intercourse,” says McFadden. Unless you’re experiencing pain with sex or an inability to use tampons or even get your period, you likely fall into the normal range for both width and length. And of course, your vagina’s width and length adjust during events like intercourse and birth to better accommodate what your body’s dealing with.
The bottom line is that unless you’re experiencing some kind of discomfort or interruption of sexual function, it’s likely your goods fall in the regular range. While outside influences can affect whether you think you’re "normal," chances are everything you’ve got looks fine and is in good working condition. The abstract even concludes that while measurements vary from woman to woman, "they do not correlate with body or genital self-image." Still not sure everything checks out down there? Schedule a chat with a doctor. That’s what they’re there for, after all!
