Have you ever noticed how difficult it is to look at a vagina? I mean really look. It's true that they're not running around all over the place getting into trouble most of the time. They don't need to be put away or adjusted or anything, they just hide out most of the time, and are really quite reclusive. Even so, I am surprised, now that I think about it, that the only one I've really seen up close and personal, so to speak, is my own. Some people who have them never even bother to look, and those who don't possess their own may never get a chance to really see one face to face.
Even in establishments where it is theoretically possible to pay for the privilege of looking at one you still never really get a good look. They're always performing complicated evasive maneuvers of one sort or another. As far as I can tell the only people who really get to look are gynecologists, and they have to have years of education, loads of fancy equipment, and a sheet so that whoever the vagina belongs to can't see that they are really looking at it. Billions, of people have buried their faces in one at some point, but how many people have actually been able to really see one in a non sexual context where they could really explore?
Even in contexts when you are allowed to explore another person's vagina by touch, it seems (to me at least) to be much more invasive to ask if you can look at it. In my experience, this has not been the same case for penises. Perhaps it is because it is so much more difficult for one to look at one's own vagina that it is to look at one's own penis. If I were unsure of what mine looked like I would be very hesitant to let anyone else see it. In any case, it's an odd discrepancy. If you have a vagina, would you consider showing it to a partner? If your partner has one, would you ever ask to look at it? Just food for thought.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Created for the real people
Everyone is getting real people blogs, and I'm jumping on the band wagon. I don't know what the content of this thing will be yet. Perhaps it will have something to do with travel, or sexism, or just sex, or science. Or a little bit of all of it. In any case, I probably won't write much. We'll see what real things I have to say.
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