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Here is the kind of image that many people (read: women) claim they can't stand. But this is a gesture of shameless exposure, and of giving as well. This woman has a gorgeous vulva, I suspect she knows it, and we're blessed to have this view. If you ask me, she has quite the ass to match. The shaved vulva is very popular these days, which I know from visiting Harbin Hotsprings, a nudist resport for progressive-types in the San Francisco Bay area. The debate about whether this is groovy or an expression of immaturity thankfully seems to be over; the women I've spoken to say it just feels good. Personally, I could go either way, and prefer the close-crop best of all. Thanks to porn, we get to see what lots of different vulvas (and assholes) look like. For anyone appalled by these images but supportive of other forms of sex education, I offer this story. Before Betty Dodson was THE Betty Dodson, she had no idea what a cunt looked like -- not her own, or those of other women. An exceptionally gifted fine artist, she said she always drew female genitalia as a little triangle of hair. One night she told her first boyfriend after her divorce that she feared she had deformed her genitals from too much childhood masturbation (her inner lips protrude a bit), at which point he brought out his collection of pussy magazines and showed her that she was perfectly normal -- one of a very wide variety of female private parts. "I was transformed," she said. Her response was to draw lots and lots of vulvas, to have gallery openings and cause a big, huge fuss -- in New York City in the mid-70s! Many feminists were outraged. But she's taught stadium-loads of women to love, appreciate and enjoy their cunts, and to have better lives. That's my kind of feminism. For anyone who loves cunts or is just curious, Joani Blank has put together a magnificent book, called Femalia. |
