Guys talk dick size all the time, but my big vagina isn't something I'm supposed to be cocky about. The first time I knew my vagina was bigger than it was supposed to be was when my mom tried talking me through my first tampon. I'd been menstruating since the fall of 5th grade. I wore pads with fair to middling success. Most mornings during my period I'd wake up and it would be that scene from The Godfather with the horse's head in the sheets. Sure, no fillies were harmed, but many innocent cotton sheets lost their lives. Now it was summer, and my family was headed to the beach. I considered quietly bleeding into my suit or avoiding the water altogether, but in the end told my mom.
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When it comes to the vagina, there are a lot of myths and misconceptions. Some people, for example, believe that vaginas can lose their elasticity and become loose forever. Your vagina is elastic. This means it can stretch to accommodate things coming in think: a penis or sex toy or going out think: a baby. Your vagina may become slightly looser as you age or have children, but overall, the muscles expand and retract just like an accordion or a rubber band. Tight vaginal muscles, then, could make a sexual encounter painful or impossible to complete. Extreme vaginal tightness could also be a sign of vaginismus. This is a treatable physical disorder that affects 1 in every women, according to the University of California, Santa Barbara. Vaginismus is pain that happens before or during penetration.
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Worried about the size, shape, colour or appearance of your vagina? If you've ever knelt over a mirror and been shocked by what you saw or compared yourself unfavourably to pictures on the internet, you are not alone. Anyone with a vagina has at some point questioned if their triangle fits the mould. We speak to Dr Vanessa Mackay of the Royal College of Gynaecologists and Dr Shirin Lakhani, aesthetic doctor and owner of Elite Aesthetics , about the ins and outs of vagina size to put your mind at ease:. While most of us know roughly what a penis looks like by our teens, vaginas are notoriously mysterious and, from birth, women are taught to be secretive, shy and even ashamed about what sits between our legs. The tightly packed and hairless labia portrayed in porn films do nothing to help the cause, leaving women feeling insecure - and men with unrealistic expectations about female genitalia. Vaginas come in all shapes and sizes and from odour to elasticity, there is no such thing as normal. But vaginas, or labia if we're being anatomically correct, come in all shapes, sizes and colours and unless you're in pain in which case, make an appointment with your GP then chances are, your vagina is completely normal.
Do guys care about vagina size? Do most guys have a preference of large or small? My vagina is a little on the larger side, and I'm a tad self-conscious about it. Does each vagina feel different? Of course. So do hands and thighs and feet and noses. But while most straight guys don't fetishize noses or hands or thighs or feet, every straight guy loves what's between a woman's legs. So relax. Every body is different.