Public Service Announcement

[deird1]

Okay. I have seen this in one too many places recently.

*sighs*



Attention Men!

1) Women have a urethra, and a vagina. One is for peeing, the other is for making babies and having sexy fun times. They are not the same thing.

(While one could potentially include the urethra in one's sexy fun times, I can't imagine it being that comfortable.)

2) The vagina is not the vulva. They are different.

3) The clitoris is not internal.

This concludes our lesson for today.

Comments

[klme.livejournal.com]

I am trying to work out what on earth made this relevant to your day?!

[deird1]

Ridiculous conversations...

[alexseanchai]

Please tell me that by 'one too many' you mean 'one'. Otherwise I am going to be even more depressed over the state of supposedly first-class education systems.

[deird1]

Several places - but thankfully only one today. Which you've already seen. :)

[(Anonymous)]

Sadly, I know a few women who aren't clear on those distinctions either. And I may have to hit the next person to use the term "vajayjay".
Sue Ellen

[deird1]

Silly education system... *shakes head*

[unjapanologist]

...Vajayjay? What's that?

I'm internet-sheltered.

[lizbee]

Apparently you're not allowed to use the word "vagina" on prime time TV in the US...

[unjapanologist]

Ooooh.

Fun with anatomy!

[vass]

Actually, no: the clitoris is mostly internal. It's a about the size of a penis, and stretches back along most of the vagina. Only the tip and hood are external, about equivalent to the penis head and foreskin. It is erectile tissue, just like the penis.

When Freud wrote about 'vaginal orgasms' and how they were superior to and more psychologically mature than clitoral orgasms, he was confused: the distinction he was imagining does not exist. But some women do feel the orgasm more internally or more externally.

Other often-neglected features of the region:

Fourchette! The fourchette is the little triangular thing at the back of the vaginal entrance, just before the perineum.

Bartholin's glands (why some man got them named after him I'm not sure, but I'll go with that for now): where ladysauce comes from. Contrary to what most people might expect, they're just next to the vagina, not inside it.

Pubic mound, aka Map of Tasmania.

Re: Fun with anatomy!

[deird1]

*stunned by knowledge*

In this case I was mostly thinking of fic in which people locate someone's clitoris inside their vagina, which no...

[curiouswombat]

Re point one - It is surprising how many women do not realise that the vagina and the urethra are not one and the same.

I know this from practical experience of teaching them self-catheterisation, where I start with the basic anatomy, and am quite often met with amazement - or a sudden realisation of how women who use tampons can pee with them in situ.

I have also met 4 women who did not have a completely separate vagina and urethra, but their urethra actually opened into the top of the vagina beside the cervix... but that is of well over 100 women that I have taught the technique to!

[lyr]

Good grief, yes. When I was doing sex ed lectures, I often had to stop and explain the whole separate urethra thing, because one of the most common questions I got when explaining contraception was "what if a girl has to pee while she has a sponge/diaphragm/cervical cap in?" It made me grind my teeth every time.