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...protest on Monday outside New York City's Manhattan Center for Vaginal Surgery. Two dozen women - ranging in age from teenagers to, ahem, sexagenarians - handed out index cards and held up orange poster boards with the message "No Two Alike," while two members of the group donned giant cloth vulva costumes. New View, which was created in 2000 in response to the introduction of Viagra, is trying to fight what it calls "the medicalization of sex," the idea that there is a physical right and wrong when it comes to all things sexual. Says the group's leader Leonore Tiefer...
...taking an in-depth look at body issues—literally. The largest piece in the show is an over-sized photograph of a vagina, complete with pubic hair and a manifesto. The work, entitled “The Vag Club,” connects final clubs to the vulva and is just one of the many works that illuminates how art can address social issues at Harvard. Every semester the Women’s Center stages an exhibition organized around a certain topic. The subject this spring—the relationship between Harvard and body issues—stems...
Even in a crowded café, Jenna M. Mellor ’08 feels comfortable talking about female genitalia, and more specifically, describing in detail the structure of the vulva. “I enjoy my sexuality. I enjoy my body. I enjoy masturbating and it’s also, I think, politically and socially important to talk about these things,” explains Mellor. Since her freshman year, she has been publicizing and advocating on issues relating to female sexuality. Mellor’s work comes in response to a perceived lack of information amongst her friends...
...percent of sexually active men and women at some point in their lives. Once someone is infected with the virus, he or she may remain asymptomatic or may develop genital warts. The greatest danger that HPV poses is that it may cause pre-cancerous changes in the cervix, vulva, anus, or penis. Pre-cancerous cervical changes (by far the most common among these four) can be detected by a pap smear; medical follow-up can ensure that pre-cancerous changes do not develop into actual cancer. Nevertheless, despite the potential for prevention, each year about 14,000 women are diagnosed...
...could have picked the word "vulva," but it seemed much more difficult. (Laughs.) I believe in the power of language. When I was a child, my father called me a slut all the time. I came to believe that and went out in the world and behaved like that. When I started doing The Vagina Monologues, I realized how impossible it was for women to say the word. I would see the disgust, the shame, the embarrassment. The vagina is smack in the center of our bodies, yet it is a place that most women felt ashamed of talking about...