The Vagina Chronicles

Hurry, nurse, bring the vagina.

She said, It was a big hurdle just to get farmers to touch underneath the vulva.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

And I really haven't gotten off it. I think if you had told me when I was younger that I was going to grow up, and be in shoe stores, and people were going to scream out, There she is, the Vagina Lady!

According to the campaign's page, about half of the babies born in Puerto Rico are products of caesarean procedures where the baby is delivered through an incision made in the mothers abdomen and womb instead of a vaginal delivery.

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.

Doctor Kinsey had heard and there was a theory kind of going around at the time, this being the 1940s that the force with which semen is thrown against the cervix was a factor in fertility.

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.

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.

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.

And I feel, in the last eight years, that this journey, this miraculous vagina journey, has taught me this really simple thing, which is that happiness exists in action it exists in telling the truth and saying what your truth is and it exists in giving away what you want the most.

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.

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.

NEW YORK Has there really been a sexual revolution? One of the themes that I explore in my new book, Vagina A New Biography, is that the West s supposedly sexually liberated societies, in which sexual images and content are available everywhere, have not really been all that liberating for women.

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.