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Author: Lynn Enright

Lynn Enright

A Re-education

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What’s in it for me? Re-educate yourself about a part of the body shrouded in confusion and myth: the female genitalia.

Half of the human population possesses a vagina. A quarter of the world menstruates. And yet, the female sex organs have long been misunderstood, ignored, or shamed. Sex education classes in school teach very little about sexual health; when they do, it’s likely tangled in misinformation. Even usage of the word “vagina” is a linguistic error – what we usually mean is the “vulva.” And as feminist psychologist Harriet Lerner wrote, “What is not named does not exist.”

Examining everything from the hymen to menopause, author Lynn Enright set out to disentangle fact from patriarchal fiction while also offering her own stories of womanhood. These blinks don’t always present clear answers because even today, most of the medical research available is based on studies of men, by men. Instead, they teach us how to reacquaint ourselves with the female anatomy and reveal how women’s relationships with their bodies have been influenced and distorted by culture and society throughout history.

And just a quick disclaimer before we begin: Blink 3 describes an incident of sexual assault.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

what the hymen really is;
why heterosexual culture has mistakenly put the vaginal orgasm on a pedestal; and
everything you never knew about menopause.

Sex education curriculums around the world are flawed, which can lead to dire consequences.

In the Middle Ages, many of the tens of thousands of women killed in the European and American witch trials were midwives. They were killed for providing contraception, abortion care, and sexual health information to women. And with a male-dominated medical profession, female healers were seen as a threat to patriarchal systems.

Knowing about women’s health and sexuality has always been transgressive. The field of medicine has only recently opened up to include women, but there is still a severe lack of research on female sexual health. The author found that even a simple Google search often showed results laced with lies, myths and mistruths. So even when women are actually “educated” on their own sexual health, most of what they think they know might not be true.

Take one 2016 study of a thousand British women for example. Forty percent were unable to correctly identify the vagina, and 60 percent were unable to identify the vulva. Ignorance can be harmful. If a woman doesn’t know what a normal vulva looks like because she doesn’t know what the vulva is, how can she be aware of any potentially dangerous changes?

The key message here is: Sex education curriculums around the world are flawed, which can lead to dire consequences.

At the moment, countries that have sex education programs in schools tend to focus on contraception. This centers around the male orgasm, teaching only how to deal with its fallout. Lucy Emmerson, the director of the UK’s Sex Education Forum, calls this the “period, pills, and pregnancy” approach.

According to Emmerson, the state of sex education in English schools is dismal. She estimates that only around 1 in 15 schools teach the subject in a sex-positive way, discussing both female and male pleasure with accurate lessons on anatomy. But this is usually thanks to the initiatives of one particularly dedicated teacher or health worker – not a countrywide policy. And in the US, the state of sex education is far worse. Only 13 of the 50 states even require sex education to be medically accurate.

Sex education should be thorough and complex, opening up discussion about consent, gender roles, LGBTQ+ sex and relationships, fertility, and women’s pleasure. So does a model of such a curriculum exist?

It does! In the Netherlands, sex education is sex-positive. Children begin learning about relationships, their anatomy, and how to keep their bodies safe at age four. Later, students also learn about pleasure and equality, as well as reproductive health. Because of this approach, teenagers are reportedly having sex later. The country’s pregnancy rate is eight times lower than in the US and five times lower than in the UK. What’s more, a study that looked at the early sexual experiences of 400 American and Dutch women from similar backgrounds showed that American women are more likely to feel pressured into having sex for the first time, while Dutch women are more likely to first be in a respectful and loving relationship.

We must learn about our sex organs to combat widespread misinformation about women’s health and sexuality.

So what exactly is the vulva? Usually mislabeled as the vagina, the vulva comprises the clitoris, the mons pubis, the inner and outer labia, and the vaginal and urethral openings.

Many women are unaware of this difference, or they’ll say “vagina” since it’s more common. Even the author used to say “vagina” instead of “vulva” because she felt the latter was just a little too pedantic. But she reconsidered her own erasure of the word. She decided that using “vagina” in place of “vulva” reduced all of a woman’s sexuality to a hole. Feminist psychologist Harriet Lerner referred to this as a “psychic genital mutilation.”

The misrepresentation of the hymen disempowers women.

As a teenager, the author was frustrated with her vagina. She was unable to insert a tampon; even though she’d been taught that she had a protective hymen covering her vaginal opening, it didn’t feel right. The prospect of asking her doctor to inspect her vagina felt impossible. She lived in Ireland, a Catholic country that wouldn’t legalize abortion for another two decades – a country that viewed women’s sexuality as something shameful.

She remained ignorant about her body and avoided physical intimacy all throughout her teens. Then, when she was 19, she fell asleep drunk at a party and was sexually assaulted.

In a society that discourages women’s pleasure, the clitoris has long been neglected or brutally eliminated.

The clitoris is often omitted in sex education classrooms and has been brushed off by scientists as a frivolous subject of research. As a result, many women don’t know about the sex organ that provides them sexual pleasure. In addition, the clitoris has been subjected to violence around the world.

Millions of women had long been aware of their clitoris, but it was only given its scientific name in the seventeenth century. It took another 200 years for the inner and outer clitoris to be drawn comprehensively, with its visible glans and clitoral hood and the shaft underneath the vulva’s tissue that split into two legs, or crura.

Talking about the female orgasm can free it from mystery and neglect.

For the author, orgasms were wrapped up in various iterations of shame for most of her life. It started with being ashamed of wanting an orgasm. There was no discussion of the female orgasm or of female masturbation at school. She began to experiment with touching herself despite a female peer telling her “girls who masturbate are sick.”

She continued to masturbate, but she couldn’t manage an orgasm; this triggered another reason to feel ashamed. Finally, as she got older and successfully orgasmed through clitorial stimulation, she felt shame for being unable to achieve what the world considered the “right kind” of orgasm – a vaginal orgasm.

People with vaginas endure unnecessary shame and suffering caused by taboo, ignorance, and oversight.

In 2017, the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, or NICE, formally declared that doctors must listen to women who have symptoms of endometriosis. Endometriosis is an agonizing disease in which tissue similar to the endometrium, which lines the uterus, grows outside of the womb. Every month that a woman isn’t pregnant, the tissue bleeds, causing her chronic pain.

The physical suffering caused by endometriosis can wreck a woman’s life. It can affect her career and her relationships. It can also cause depression and anxiety. If left untreated, her organs can become fused and cause infertility. And yet, as highlighted by the advisory deemed necessary by NICE, women’s pain often isn’t taken seriously. In fact, it takes an average of seven to eight years to be diagnosed with endometriosis.

Life will improve for the almost two billion people who menstruate if we tackle the stigma around periods.

For many girls, getting their period for the first time is an unnecessarily traumatic experience. In 2017, 1 out of 4 girls in the UK felt totally unprepared for the start of their period while 1 in 7 didn’t know what was happening to them.

Even girls who are prepared and informed are often upset the first time they menstruate. But maybe a girl’s first period feels especially horrible because it represents an induction into a culture bound by strict gender roles. It marks the loss of innocence and the beginning of being seen as a sexual object or a vessel for carrying babies.

The current conversation surrounding fertility and pregnancy undermines women.

If you’ve ever taken hormonal contraception, you’re probably familiar with the possible side effects. Weight gain, depression, a decreased libido, the possibility of developing potentially deadly blood clots, and an increased likelihood of getting breast cancer are only some of the things that might await you if you choose to take it. But sometimes, it can feel like there’s not much of a choice.

After all, the only forms of male contraception that currently exist are condoms – which most couples in long-term relationships prefer not to use – or vasectomies. These are meant to be permanent and are only advisable for men who don’t want children in the future.

The conversation about women’s sexual health must be inclusive of all people with vaginas.

A recent study found that a quarter of women have considered leaving their jobs due to menopausal symptoms. Is menopause really that bad? Bad enough to quit your job? For some women, it can be. Coupled with ageism, misogyny, and a lack of discussion, many women feel unsupported and embarrassed in the workplace.

Consider the fact that, as women age, we hear their stories less often. This means that we rarely hear about menopause at all.

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Vagina (2019) aims to offer a greater understanding of the female sex organs, which have been misunderstood and neglected by science, education, and culture at large. From debunking the persistent myth of the hymen to exposing the economic and social forces that make getting your period even more of a nightmare, Lynn Enright explores and illuminates everything we weren’t taught about women’s sexual health.

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We have been taught far more about shame than about our anatomy.

—Lynn Enright

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Über den Autor

Lynn Enright is an Irish-born, London-based journalist. Her work has appeared in Vogue, the Independent, BuzzFeed, the Guardian, the Irish Times, Elle, the London Evening Standard, and the Financial Times.

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