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. The first time I took it, I felt a bit self-conscious and awkward. The first time I looked at it on my computer screen was quite a moment for me. It was big and detailed and I could see everything.

I continued having pain, but I kept being told it was normal. It turned out I have endometriosis, uterine polyps and fibroids, which was a blow on top of a missing ovary. The really big deal was finding out that if I waited too long, I would be unlikely to conceive naturally, if at all.

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I was afraid of penises my whole life. First I wanted to have one. Then I entered puberty and my breasts grew, and I knew there was no way I was going to be a boy. Then I was hurt by penises. I was molested by my father and I had teenage interactions with boys who put pressure on me. 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. 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 have seen, touched, indeed worshipped many vulvas. And yet I have never had the courage to look at my own. I have identified as a lesbian most of my life. I desperately wanted to be a boy as a child. I hated my body, my gender, for many years. Since then I have come full circle to a place of love and reverence for who I am – and what I am made of.Okay, that's not true. In fact, I've mentioned the last woman I dated was almost lipless -- we used to joke that she had the smallest clitoris in the world as well -- yet she was a lovely woman in all other ways, and I gave her over 3 years of my life. So I'm not sure that I see the correlation yet, though I certainly remain open to it. :D 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.”

And after that, Laura considered the project complete. She didn’t think she would do a third series, despite suggestions that vulvas were the next step. http://gigapeta.com/dl/3757594ab64dd9 | http://rapidgator.net/file/d94c80a97347d 48a66938244117fcafa Over a few weeks, I bled a lot between periods, and also after sex with my boyfriend at the time. I googled bleeding and it came up with lots of different things: an STI, hormonal imbalance, cervical cancer. 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.

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