Bodies

If it’s about a system or a part of the human body and how they work, you’ll find it here. Anatomy, body function and whole systems explainers – about all kinds of bodies, and usually presented through a gender-neutral lens – myth and misnomer debunking, help navigating sexual, reproductive and other physical healthcare: it’s all in here.

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  • Heather Corinna

A person’s height has no relationship to the size of their genitals – or, in your case, the length of the vaginal canal. The vaginal canal in any person isn’t even one static size, anyway: it changes. When we’re less aroused, the vaginal walls are tighter, and the back of the vagina and cervix are…

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  • Sarah Riley

You can tell your partner that he’s incredibly misinformed. You might want to check out my answer to another question about vaginal tightness. But the short answer here is that your partner is woefully confused about sexual anatomy and arousal. The vagina does not permanently change due to inserting…

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  • Heather Corinna

The membrane you’re referring to is the hymen, also called the vaginal corona. When fully or partially present, the hymen consists of thin folds of tissue that partially cover the vaginal opening. However, the hymen is something that usually gradually wears away – rather than “breaking” – over…

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  • Sarah Riley

Actually, you sound perfectly normal. Contrary to what we are encouraged to believe by various media, porn, and certain plastic surgeons, labia normally come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. There are any number of completely normal variations. Labia can be large or small. They can be pink, reddish…

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  • Heather Corinna

The way to check if you’re still a virgin is to ask yourself how you define virginity, and see if or how your definition matches up with your experiences. In other words, there is NO – and I mean none, zero, nunca, aucun, keine – physical way to determine if someone is a virgin, because virginity…

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  • Heather Corinna

Well, the first place I’d start is by having a good look at these four pieces here and sharing them with your spouse: Yield for Pleasure Sexual Response & Orgasm: A Users Guide First Intercourse 101 From OW! to WOW! Demystifying Painful Intercourse Why did I link you to that first piece? In part…

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  • Sarah Riley

Well, first off, it’d be good to toss out the whole idea of the “cherry.” There are no fruit of any sort on or in one’s genitals (unless of course you decide to put some down there, in which case you’ll want to avoid anything with sharp edges, clean it first, wrap it in a condom, and not stick it…

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  • Heather Corinna

A guy thinking that would be similar to someone from one culture looking at someone of another, who looks different or unfamililar, and presuming that because someone looks different from what they look like, or what they know or expect, that that person isn’t normal. Just as when that’s the case…

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  • Heather Corinna

I’m sorry you had such a bad experience. However, please understand that that bad experience did not likely cause permanent changes to your vulva or vagina. While certainly, if you were tense or underlubricated, that could have caused a tear to the tissue of the vaginal corona, which may cause mild…

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  • Heather Corinna

It’d actually be pretty atypical for a regular period to fall on the same numeric dates for a long time. Let me explain why that is. The number of days in each calendar month is not the same: it varies from month to month. Menstrual cycles, on the other hand, when they’re regular, are a given number…