How true … I would want my daughter to know and respect herself and for my son to respect girls … they are the next generation and need to respect their peers. Cx
Vagina vs. Vulva — There’s a Difference, People | Lorelei Sharkey
A professor of sexology (I can’t remember who) once said in an interview: “Imagine how the world would be different if people were told, starting from a very young age, that the female equivalent of the penis was the clitoris.” (And it’s true: anatomically speaking, the penis is just an overgrown clit.) Chances are, women would bemore fully accepted as active, sexual creatures with their own physical desires, rather than widely thought of as passive objects of desire for hetero men.
My four-year-old daughter has a nose, not a honker. She has eyes, not peepers. When she goes to the bathroom, she wipes her vulva. The hole her poop comes out of is an anus. She knows that I get a period, that all grown women do, and that’s it’s natural and normal. When she asked what that little nubbin of hers was, I told her: it’s a clitoris. (I was horrified to learn that when Em’s daughter first asked her the same question, Em initially panicked and called it a “twinkle.” I’m happy to report that, after seeing McFadden speak in person, she’s come over to anatomically correct camp.) Our daughters may eventually be ashamed of us, but if we have anything to do with it, they will not be ashamed of their bodies — vulvas, vaginas and all!
~ Lorelei Sharkey of “Em and Lo”
Read more: http://www.emandlo.com/
Thanks to page sister Heather Noel for sharing this link!
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☾ Katharine Krueger ~ Occupy Menstruation
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