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  • "Lady garden", "private parts", "vajayjay", "hooha"...just come out and say it. It’s vulva and

  • vagina, okay? Beating around the bush, if you will, is one of the reasons people

  • are still so uncomfortable talking about their bodies, and this has real-world impacts

  • on health and wellness. So strap in—’cause were gonna talk about it.

  • First, we gotta get our words in order. When most folks talk about female genitals, they

  • often say vagina. But the vagina is very specifically just the canal inside the bodyit’s internal.

  • The vulva is where most of the fun stuff is: it’s all the female genitalia on the outside

  • of the body. So let’s explore! First weve got the mons pubis,

  • or the fatty tissue on the outside of the body that protects the pelvis.

  • Then weve got the outer lips, the labia

  • majora. These are fleshy and grow pubic hair, and inside those are the inner lips, the labia

  • minora. Both the inner and outer labia are there to protect the parts underneath them,

  • like the urethral opening, where your pee comes out. And under the surface of the labia

  • are two glands that sit on either side of the vaginal opening.

  • These are called Bartholin’s glands. When someone is aroused, blood flow to the genitals

  • increases, and this can stimulate those glands to produce moisture—a mix of water and proteins.

  • This is what’s happening when people talk aboutgetting wet’—it’s natural lubrication

  • that gives anything entering the vagina a bit of a smoother ride.

  • Speaking of the vagina, this is the perfect opportunity to address a big myth: the hymen.

  • For centuries, people thought that vaginas have a ‘seal’, that the hymen must be

  • brokenwhen something is inserted. It’s all wrapped up in the social concept of virginity

  • (which is a topic for another time) but essentiallythe hymen is just a thin flap of skin inside the

  • vaginal opening. For most people, the hymen has at least one

  • hole in it, usually more, and it doesn’t actually break, it gets stretched: by physical

  • exercise, by using a tampon, or yeahby penetrative sex. But that doesn’t always

  • hurt, there’s not always blood, and most hazy pop culture ideas of what the hymen is

  • are actually pretty far from the truth. Everyone’s hymen is different, and some people don’t

  • have one at all. The world really loves to focus on just the

  • vagina when it comes to sex, anatomy, and pleasure. But it’s not even usually the

  • main source of pleasure for those with vaginas. That is the clitoris.

  • -What's fascinating for me is the way the clitoris, the full internal structure of the clitoris,

  • has come and gone from anatomy textbooks. It was there in the middle of the 19th century,

  • and then it went away. And then it came back. And then it went away again.

  • And I was just reading a sex manual written in 1940 that absolutely included the clitoris

  • as important to sexual pleasure, but it talked about as it's just this, like little nub.

  • -And it’s so much more than that. The clit is a sensory organ filled with blood vessels

  • and an estimated 8,000 nerve endings, about double the number found in the penis. And

  • it’s a heck of a lot bigger than just that little nub we see on the outside. That’s

  • theglans clitoris’, which is connected to a much larger internal structure with clitoral

  • bulbs extending down on either side of the urethral and vaginal openings.

  • And finally there's the pair of crura, they're kind of like the legs of the clitoris.

  • And when you look at it this way, you can see that all genitalia are pretty similar.

  • Both the penis and the clitoris are made of erectile tissue that swells when aroused,

  • and they originate from the same organ structure during fetal development.

  • Despite the similarities, the clitoris is still poorly understood compared to the penis.

  • -The biggest gap is that penises go first and then vulvas come a decade or two later.

  • So for example, full imaging of the internal structures of the penis happened in the 80s

  • and 90s. That happened for the clitoris in the middle 2000s. The first anatomical illustration

  • to my knowledge of the full internal structure of the clitoris was in the middle of the 19th

  • century. So we knew that anatomy was there. But to

  • give it the attention it deserved, to get the funding to be able to do the research,

  • just took a couple decades extra.

  • -Since 1947, only a handful of anatomical papers

  • have been published specifically on the internal structure of the clitoris. In fact, many major

  • medical textbooks still omit internal clitoral anatomy, and still more contain inaccurate

  • depictions of the nerve endings that surround this important organ.

  • This lack of formal knowledge impacts those whose sexual anatomy may need medical attention.

  • Like, when your vulva or just pelvic area in general is being operated on,

  • you want your doctor to know where everything is

  • That lack of up-to-date education and discussion spills over into schools, households,

  • and even relationships. -What talking about sex does is empower people

  • to make choices for themselves. And what ends up happening when we don't talk about sex

  • is that people do not have the information they need, they do not feel empowered to make

  • choices that are right for them. And they're going to end up making choices that are right

  • for somebody else. And that's where boundaries start to get crossed. So communicating about

  • sex is 100% essential in making the world a better place. Like if we want the next generation

  • to have a better experience growing into their sexual selves than we did, the way to make

  • that happen is by talking about it. -Research has shown that many people don’t

  • even know the correct terms for many parts of their own bodies. Lots of folks don’t

  • know that there’s a separate opening for urine, that we don’t actually pee out of

  • our vaginas. One study found a majority of its participants felt uncomfortable using

  • the words vagina and vulva. But if we can’t even say the word out loud, how can we express

  • a problem were having to a doctor, or to a partner?

  • Feeling embarrassed about saying the words just magnifies any shame someone might have

  • about their vagina or vulva in the first place. There can be a lot of insecurity about the

  • way this stuff looks because of how female genitalia is usually shown in media,

  • especially in porn.

  • -Where people get really confused around sexual

  • anatomy of vulvas is in thinking there is a way they are supposed to look that is correct

  • In fact, vulvas just look incredibly different from each other in the shape and size and

  • color of the labia, external and internal, in the shape, size, position of the clitoris

  • and the urethra and the vagina. And all of the variations in how our parts are organized

  • are normal and healthy. The only sickness that a vulva can have is if you're experiencing

  • pain or infection, in which case absolutely seek medical attention.

  • - So, making friends with your body, getting to know where everything is, what it looks and

  • feels like, how it works, can be essential to your sexual and reproductive health. Talking

  • about our bodies without fear or shame, feeling empowered by calling things what they are,

  • and advocating for resources and research into the unique complexity of female sexual

  • anatomy...all of this is so important. I mean, I’m sure youve heard of the g-spot, and

  • most scientists these days don’t actually think it exists.

  • So for closing the orgasm gap. For improving care for those recovering from physical trauma

  • to this area. For catching and treating things like STIs and vulvo-vaginal cancers as early

  • as possible. For your health, happiness, confidence, and sex lifegrab a hand mirror! Say hi!

  • You won’t regret it Thank you all so much for watching Seeker’s

  • Body Language. If you have another topic like this you want us to cover in this series,

  • let us know in the comments, and check out this video here for more info.

  • I’ll see ya next time.

"Lady garden", "private parts", "vajayjay", "hooha"...just come out and say it. It’s vulva and

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The Vulva, Vagina, and Clit, Oh My!

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