The Vagina Chronicles

Vagina, vagina, vagina. It doesn't matter how many times you say the word, it never sounds like a word you want to say.

To the north a doorway led to a vestibule and then to an entrance hall.

Hurry, nurse, bring the vagina.

Women cannot control vagina

You should know, the clitoris of the pig, inside the vagina.

Some of the women who were raped were shot in the vagina.

Its glass domed entrance vestibule had painted ceiling decorations by the Crace family firm, who had also worked on the Barry Rooms.

The minute droplets of fluid were once believed to be important for lubricating the vagina, but research from Masters and Johnson demonstrated that vaginal lubrication comes from deeper within the vagina.

One night on stage, I actually entered my vagina.

She had seen The Vagina Monologues and she was really moved. And as a result, she wore an I heart my vagina button to her high school in Minnesota.

A vaginal delivery is the birth of offspring (babies in humans) in mammals through the vagina.

In the first place, it's not so easy to even find your vagina.

Placed in the vagina before sex, the plastic hardens slightly, and rips upon intercourse.

I think before I did the Vagina Monologues I didn't really believe in happiness.

Other lactobacilli found in the vagina are L. jensenii, L. delbruekii and L. gasseri .

The Latin term impotentia coeundi describes simple inability to insert the penis into the vagina.

There's another woman named Agnes. And Agnes, for me, epitomizes what a vagina warrior is.

Montenegro didn t like the health workers, and she wasn t about to let them look at her vagina.

And so I said to a friend casually, Well, what do you think about your vagina?

But, being a vagina warrior, she kept going, and she kept committing herself to transforming consciousness.

She had this amazing box that she carried and it had a torso of a woman's body in it, a half a torso, and she would teach people, everywhere she went, what a healthy vagina looked like and what a mutilated vagina looked like.

The fluid may slightly moisten the labial opening of the vagina, serving to make contact with this sensitive area more comfortable for the woman.

In this test, a needle is inserted into the space at the very top of the vagina, behind the uterus and in front of the rectum.

And that woman said something more amazing, and then the next woman said something more amazing, and before I knew it, every woman was telling me I had to talk to somebody about their vagina because they had an amazing story, and I was sucked down the vagina trail.

We were having a conversation about menopause, and we got onto the subject of her vagina which you'll do if you're talking about menopause.

One is seeing what's right in front of you, and talking about it, and stating it. I think what I learned from talking about the vagina, and speaking about the vagina, is it was the most obvious thing it was right in the center of my body and the center of the world and yet it was the one thing nobody talked about.

Because before the Vagina Monologues, I will say that 80 percent of my consciousness was closed off to what was really going on in this reality.

And what happened through the course of the Vagina Monologues and this journey is I think I have come to understand a little bit more about happiness.

If you use it during sex, trying to be politically correct, Darling, would you stroke my vagina, you kill the act right there.

Maybe a coming of age in the American sensual darkness, never seeing an unsmudged nipple, an uncensored vagina, has left me forever infected with an unquenchable lust of the eye.

Bleeding through the vagina, called overt or external bleeding, occurs 80 of the time, though sometimes the blood will pool behind the placenta, known as concealed or internal placental abruption.

A vagina warrior is a woman, or a vagina friendly man, who has witnessed incredible violence or suffered it, and rather than getting an AK 47 or a weapon of mass destruction or a machete, they hold the violence in their bodies they grieve it they experience it and then they go out and devote their lives to making sure it doesn't happen to anybody else.

one story about one man, at least, putting chili powder in her vagina, one man taking a cigarette and burning her, one man whipping her.

And I was thinking about how being with these extraordinary people on this particular panel that it's beneath, beyond, and between, and the vagina kind of fits into all those categories.

Now this seems like a fairly, you know, frivolous, but what happened as a result of that, is that that school now is forming a sex education class. It's beginning to talk about sex, it's beginning to look at why it would be wrong for a young high school girl to talk about her vagina publicly or to say that she loved her vagina publicly.

And I wanted to stop doing the Vagina Monologues because it felt too daunting. I felt like a war photographer who takes pictures of terrible events, but doesn't intervene on their behalf.

Brenda Drummond, 29, of Carleton Place, Ontario tried to abort at 9 months on 28 May 1996 by introducing a pellet gun in her vagina and shooting her fetus in the head.

So she really struggled with this, what to do, because she was a senior and she was doing well in her school and she was threatened expulsion. So what she did is she got all her friends together I believe it was 100, 150 students all wore I love my vagina T shirts, and the boys wore I love her vagina T shirts to school.

But I want to talk a little bit about happiness and the relationship to this whole vagina journey because it has been an extraordinary journey that began eight years ago.

I want to talk about three particular people that I've met, vagina warriors, who really transformed my understanding of this whole principle and species, and one is a woman named Marsha Lopez.

Eve Ensler, creator of The Vagina Monologues, shares how a discussion about menopause with her friends led to talking about all sorts of sexual acts onstage, waging a global campaign to end violence toward women and finding her own happiness.

And I've been thinking a lot about what I have learned over these last particularly 11 years with V Day and The Vagina Monologues, traveling the world, essentially meeting with women and girls across the planet to stop violence against women.

The report stated that there were several cigarette burns on her right thigh and hand, bruises on her wrist, a small incised wound on her right finger, a bluish mark on the back, and bleeding from the vagina and over the vulva.

But every single country I have been to and in the last six years I've been to about 45 countries, and many tiny little villages and cities and towns I have seen something what I've come to call vagina warriors.