Knowledge is power, especially when it comes to vaginas. So we put together a bunch of totally true facts about vaginas and vulvas to help you navigate the labyrinth of lies and appreciate your body in all its glory. The vagina is a 3- to 6-inch-long muscular canal that runs from the cervix , the lower part of the uterus , to the outside of the body. The vulva is all the outer stuff — including the labia, urethra, clitoris, and vaginal opening. Language is fluid after all. Sorry, Freud. A little over 18 percent of vagina owners say they can reach orgasm from penetration alone. For the other 80 percent, the key orgasmic ingredient is the clitoris. There are also plenty of perfectly healthy bodies that rarely or never get all the way to orgasm. They may identify as a man or nonbinary.
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The largest vagina ever recorded is thought to have belonged to seven-foot eight-inch Anna Swan , a long-legged Scottish temptress who once plopped out a pound baby, the biggest bambino recorded in world history. The annals of medicine are crammed with accounts of women whose functional adult vaginas were less than an inch in depth. Other women are born with little dents in the pubic area rather than fully developed vaginas. Extensive surgery, lubrication, and patience can help ameliorate this problem.
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The vagina is a fascinating body part—what it looks like , how it smells , even how it changes over time. Chances are, there are probably a lot of vagina facts that you don't know, so we tapped top experts to find out the most amazing—and important—things every woman should know about her vagina. Technically, if you're referring to any of stuff you can see—including the clitoris, urethra, the labia majora and minora outer and inner vaginal lips, respectively , and the pubis—the correct term is "vulva. While smaller in size than the penis, the clitoris actually has twice as many nerve endings—the clitoris has 8, nerve endings while the penis has just 4,
When most people think of the clitoris, they think of the small visible part. But research indicates that it actually has branches that extend down underneath the skin, along either side of the vulva, kind of in a wishbone shape. The vulva refers to the outside, visible parts of your genitalia. It encompasses basically everything you can see — the labia, the clitoris, the urethra, the vaginal opening, and so on — and it's usually what most people mean when they say "vagina. The vagina , on the other hand, is the muscular passageway that connects the vulva to the cervix. All vulva images in this story were created by artist Erin Tobey as part of a Kickstarter project by Dr. Herbenick and Vanessa Schick, Ph.
