But reading about Female Genital Mutilation, the number of women speaking surgery on their vulvas and the language around how we refer to female body parts made Laura reconsider. When I masturbated when I was younger, I used to hate it when my clitoris got bigger – I thought it looked like a penis. I felt very self-conscious about it. I thought my labia were too big as well. I had to be drunk to have sex and I never let anybody pleasure me. http://gigapeta.com/dl/3774266a5a08a7 | http://rapidgator.net/file/6be9c1a24ab74 cde5fb3c35a63993476 Laat uw merk op authentieke wijze groeien door uw merkcontent te delen met de makers van het internet. Kom meer te weten

Where would you normally see another vulva?” photographer Laura Dodsworth asks me. “Mainly only in porn,” she answers. “Especially if you’re looking online. But there’s a world of difference between how you see vulvas in porn – and how you see them in real life. It’s so important for women to know what vulvas look like. It can help with body image anxiety. We really need to talk about them because many women haven’t looked at their own. They don’t know what’s down there.” http://gigapeta.com/dl/3770229a1732d8 | http://rapidgator.net/file/e71a12c4831c0 b2138494a7d6957cf30 http://gigapeta.com/dl/3746864a8f42e3 | http://rapidgator.net/file/d56a49a5636ce bdfeb2b7e5208d7e189 And when 100 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. At least, that’s what Laura set out to achieve. Even though she refers to it as the hardest part of the project, Laura believes including so many of these harrowing experiences adds to the impact of her message – because there is no singular female experience.I had a stage 1B grade 3, which is small, but nasty. Thankfully it was caught early. I had my cervix removed, the surrounding kind of tissue area and the top third of my vagina and, thank God, didn’t need further treatment, like chemotherapy. I can get pregnant, but because there’s no cervix there’s a high chance of miscarriage or early birth. It’s taken me years to get myself into a safe situation where I can do and say whatever I want. Honour killings still happen, even here in Britain.

I didn’t grow up with my father but I thought he was incredible. When I was a teenager, I’d go and spend the weekend with him. One night he got into bed with me and started touching me. The next day I confronted him. His reasoning was that he wanted me to realise that I had a beautiful body and that sex was a wonderful thing. I was like, ‘You’re not the right person to be teaching me any of this because you’re my father.’ My early experiences of womanhood started with the women who raised me: my nan taught me about enjoying yourself, your body and who you are. My mum is my best friend, there’s nothing that I don’t share with her. I decided I wanted to wax my vulva, and I asked [her] to do it. My mum gave birth to me so there’s nothing that I have that she hasn’t seen. And I trust her. Within a few weeks of putting the call out for participants, Laura had over 100 volunteers but she took some time to choose a range of people who represented different groups of people and different types of stories.It was more that they were ideas that came from the left field. Each time, it hit me over the head and kidnapped me and each time I was surprised that I did it. They are very well done, and I have spent some time analyzing the faces of the women, and their respective pussies.

http://gigapeta.com/dl/3767764a6a648e | http://rapidgator.net/file/34e9da0b7cbd5 899bc65032bf8a060bf Lots of women were looking at themselves for the first time or they hadn’t looked at themselves much. Some of them were very well acquainted with their vulva. My recovery was horrific. I knew there was going to be swelling but it looked like a huge hamburger and I couldn’t even put my legs together. It was very painful. A beautiful, must-have coffee table book from photographer Frannie Adams. The perfect gift for vagina enthusiasts and aficionados everywhere, Pussy Portraits takes you on a tour of some lovely lady parts, with the models faces being published next to the pic of their privates. This concept would also make a great card game, where you could earn points for sucessfully matching the face with the corresponding vagina. Dr Naomi Crouch, chair of the British Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology, has also noticed a “marked increase in girls and young women seeking labiaplasty” over the last few years.”Across the course of a year, Laura took photos of the 100 vulvas for her book Womanhood: The Bare Reality, and spoke to each person about what their vulva means to them. I first met Laura, a photographer from Surrey, in 2015 following her exploration of 100 women’s relationships with their breasts. Having endometriosis means that my periods are irregular and can be excruciating. It’s like a hot, burning sensation in my uterus that radiates throughout the lower half of my body, into my hips and down into my knees. People think I’m exaggerating, but sometimes I can’t work. I also get a sudden sharp shooting pain in my vagina, which catches me off guard. It’s exhausting having to live with a level of pain that never really goes away. 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: 100 Vaginas. I'm sure now more than ever, I will always admire, love, and show affection to the any woman who blesses me with the pleasure and experience of being able to gaze upon, and pleasure her body.