Topic: vagina

Winterize Your Vagina: How To Keep Your Lady Bits Healthy This Fall And Winter

Winterize Your Vagina: How To Keep Your Lady Bits Healthy This Fall And Winter

As we start to really get into sweater weather, everyone knows the usual health concerns. Dry skin! Weight gain! Depression! But fall and winter can also be hard on your ‘nether regions. Wrapped up in tight, synthetic clothing (I’m looking at you, tights) and subjected to unhealthy foods (which matter–and we’ll get to why in a minute), your vagina and vulva kind of hate the most wonderful time of the year. Don’t worry, though. There are ways to ward off winter yeast infections and other uncomfortable situations. More »

New Naomi Wolf Book Explores “The Mind-Vagina Connection”

New Naomi Wolf Book Explores "The Mind-Vagina Connection"

Feminist provocateur turned liberal activist Naomi Wolf has a new book coming out this month, called Vagina: A New Biography. Don’t hold the title against her — the underlying premise of the book actually sounds pretty cool, combining neuroscience and cultural history to explore women’s “pelvic neural networks” and the ways our brains, hormones and clitorises are linked. What you should hold against her, however, is that she takes all of this fascinating new science and information and turns into a load of mushy, ditzy, gender essentialist crap. Oh, and she’d like us all to start calling the vagina the “goddess.” More »

Vaginal Rejuvenation Makes Gynos (And Most Sane People) Highly Uncomfortable

Vaginal Rejuvenation Makes Gynos (And Most Sane People) Highly Uncomfortable

Female genital cosmetic surgery. Honestly, I feel uncomfortable typing those words. In the face of vaginoplasty, I would kind of like to bury my head in the sand and pretend it’s not happening. I feel sad just thinking about women who are so insecure about their lady-parts that they choose surgery, and possibly damaging complications, just to gain confidence. But procedures like vaginal rejuvenation, shortening the labia, recreating the hymen, and “G-spot amplification” are becoming hard to ignore. They’re growing in popularity at a rate that’s troubling to many gynecologists. More »

Carefree Said “Vagina” in Panty Liner Ad; People Are Predictably Freaking Out

Carefree Said "Vagina" in Panty Liner Ad; People Are Predictably Freaking Out

Offense at the word “vagina” has officially reached an all-time peak of ridiculousness. Carefree–a company that makes products specifically for the vagina–is being forced to defend a commercial for panty liners that actually said “vagina,” according to ninemsn. But I have a solution. We all need to start saying “vagina.” A lot. More »

Silenced Vagina-Uttering Rep To Perform ‘Vagina Monologues’ With Eve Ensler Today

Silenced Vagina-Uttering Rep To Perform 'Vagina Monologues' With Eve Ensler Today

Last week, Rep. Lisa Brown, (D-West Bloomfield) was barred from debate after using the terribly horrible and offensive actual name for a lady’s naughtybits (prepare yourself: she said vagina) in the presence of men. But that was small vagina-potatoes compared to the number of times she’s going to say it today, when she performs the ‘Vagina Monologues’ on the Capitol steps in Lansing, Michigan, alongside feminist icon, award-winning playwright, and ‘Monologues’ writer Eve Ensler, as well as several other lawmakers. More »

Female Legislator Banned For Using Most Offensive Word: Vagina

Female Legislator Banned For Using Most Offensive Word: Vagina

Can someone please tell me why people get so weird over the word “vagina”? It’s just a female body part, for God’s sake. Not to mention, it’s the anatomically correct description of this beautiful part that makes us proud to be a woman. And yet, some guys–and women–just freak out when someone uses it. Like, yesterday, Jezebel wrote about a female state representative who was banned from speaking on the floor of the House of Representatives because she used this most offensive term ever in her debate.
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8 Ways To Make Your Vagina Love Biking

8 Ways To Make Your Vagina Love Biking

Did you know that May is National Bike Month and this is Bike to Work Week? That may sound like a great idea, you say, if only my lady parts would agree, right? Because, let’s face it, biking is not always kind to our vagina and our butt. In fact, sometimes it’s downright painful. Painful enough to make swear we will never hop on again. But before you ditch your wheels, we’ve pulled together some suggestions to make biking more comfortable. Who knows, maybe they will even help your vagina to love the sport enough that you’ll commute to work on two wheels this week and every week! More »

Why Our Vaginas Hate Bike Seats And What To Do About It

Why Our Vaginas Hate Bike Seats And What To Do About It

To any woman out there who has spent more time fidgeting around on the bike seat during spin class or on a road ride in an attempt to calm that screaming vagina, we feel your pain. Biking can be pure torture on our lady parts. Up until now, studies about the hazards of biking and sexual health have been primarily focused on men and the link to erectile dysfunction, but alas, someone has recognized that the other half of the population has suffering genitals too. And good news–there is something we can do about it. More »

If Your Vagina Could Talk…

If Your Vagina Could Talk...

Just when we thought feminine care products were starting to talk about our periods like grown-ups, Summer’s Eve has to make an ad campaign featuring talking vaginas, and in badly-stereotyped accents and slang targeted at different racial demographics. The commercials not only imply that our lady-parts are dirty, smelly, and need special products to be socially acceptable (just like the rest of our bodies), but they use some pretty shit-astic accents and slang to appeal to “all demographics.” More »

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