Get Rid of a Partner Who Tells You Your Vagina Is Too Big
How often have you said to yourself, “My vagina is fantastic”? Follow-up question: How many negative reports of vagina and vulva have you received in your life? For example: is he too fluffy, too smelly, or too loose?
I guess the ratio here is not what we want. And Jen Gunter, an obstetrician-gynecologist who obviously knows quite a bit about vaginal health, wants to draw attention to this fact. Gunther, in an essay for the New York Times, tells the stories of many patients who cried on her exam table because their partners (usually men) told them something was wrong with their (healthy, normal) vulvas or vaginas. … She recalls her own story of breaking up with a guy who criticized her unearthly regions, which was the final straw in a series of helpful self-improvement tips.
This story of dumping someone criticizing her vagina has garnered more attention from commentators than even her articles on second trimester abortion. The New York Post took it up, heading it with a completely upside-down headline: “My Boyfriend Dumped Me Because of My Cunt Smell” (hmm, it’s all because she dumped him ). These people – Gunther invented the plural ‘rash’ as in the ‘common crowd’ – were eager to write ugly emails, poke fun at her supposedly rough vagina, or simply let her know how women can better prepare their vulvas and vaginas for the pleasure of men.
For anyone who has ever stood in the aisle with a shower and wondered if she should try one, or thought about paying $ 75 to have a silent woman throw her leg over her head and smear hot wax on her tender parts. no wonder. Gunther reminds us that exploiting women’s insecurity in their genitals is a lucrative strategy that Lysol is known to use. And apparently the climax is that Gwyneth Paltrow is in favor of vaginal vaping, or all of these products on summer’s eve, or some random internet suggesting Vicks Vapo Rub applied locally in places where the topic should never come up. … (I’ll save you a click: don’t put Vicks Vapo Rub on your vulva.)
But Gunther calls this imposed insecurity an indicator of more than a convenient profit model:
While I admit this is anecdotal evidence, my years listening to covert shame about healthy vaginas and vulvas seems to suggest that much, if not entirely, male partners use vaginal and vulvar insecurity as a weapon of emotional abuse. and control.
Women who feel insecure are at a disadvantage. This applies to all insecurities: your appearance, your mind, your weight – everything. If you think you are not good enough, you will not defend yourself; you’re going to take less than you deserve. This applies to all areas – professional, social, financial and even the most intimate areas of your genitals, whether they are good enough or not. So if your partner (of either gender – power games aren’t limited to heterosexual relationships) is trying to tell you such nonsense, take a page from Gunther’s book and cut it out. And find a partner who tells you that your vagina is fantastic .