Labiaplasty is on the rise. Boys and men continue to worry that their penis is too small. Every other week there seems to be a new treatment promising to make your penis longer and harder or your vagina tighter, smoother, and more sparkly. Instead, you see smoothed, Barbie-perfect versions of vaginas and whopping great penises that stay erect for hours in porn. You see blurred out images online or dainty flowers, or bananas and crude doodles to illustrate their place. Students should see longer labia, different skin tones, penises that are short and fat, penises that are long and lean. Seeing these images before we start having sex or having the power to make changes to our bodies through surgery or other means is incredibly important.

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It can help with body image anxiety. Now, her latest work puts vulvas and vaginas in the spotlight thanks to her new book Womanhood: The Bare Reality and forthcoming Channel 4 documentary: Vaginas. And when women share intimate photos and deeply personal experiences relating to their vaginas, the result is a tender yet taboo-exploding message of women reclaiming their womanhood. I think a part of me was shying away from that intimacy because I would have to address my own related experiences. The correct language and understanding of female genitalia is so important to me: the vulva is the whole external package, the vagina is a muscular tube which leads from the cervix the neck of the womb down to the vulva. Later, a BBC report about girls as young as nine seeking labiaplasty — surgery that involves the lips of the vagina being shortened or reshaped — because they were distressed by its appearance, had Laura reaching for her camera again.
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To view this content you need to create an account or log in. The best projects will move the world. Martin describes the project as an attempt to capture the difference between how a woman and her partner view her body. But it shouldn't be, as it's a pervasive issue among women that's been swept under the rug. Everyone should feel comfortable in their own skin, and trying to reverse these statistics is a very noble cause. It's not about how many megapixels your camera has, how big your aperture gets, how few clothes your subject is wearing. Those are all merely tools and incomplete building blocks.
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