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My early experiences of womanhood started with the women who raised me: my nan taught me about enjoying yourself, your body and who you are. My mum is my best friend, there’s nothing that I don’t share with her. I decided I wanted to wax my vulva, and I asked [her] to do it. My mum gave birth to me so there’s nothing that I have that she hasn’t seen. And I trust her. http://gigapeta.com/dl/3757594ab64dd9 | http://rapidgator.net/file/d94c80a97347d 48a66938244117fcafa As part of the project, Laura took her own photograph, partly to test how it worked, but in doing so, she was able to process some of her own thoughts about being a woman.

Within a few weeks of putting the call out for participants, Laura had over 100 volunteers but she took some time to choose a range of people who represented different groups of people and different types of stories.

Nurse Pussy

It’s taken me years to get myself into a safe situation where I can do and say whatever I want. Honour killings still happen, even here in Britain.

http://gigapeta.com/dl/3770442a061a4d | http://rapidgator.net/file/8e039c91b5ec1 a0c3bcfd40e8b539bcb Across the course of a year, Laura took photos of the 100 vulvas for her book Womanhood: The Bare Reality, and spoke to each person about what their vulva means to them. Although Laura admits to being nervous at the beginning. “I hadn’t knelt before a woman with her legs spread before.” I never wanted to have children until I developed reproductive health problems. When I was 19, I had a Mirena coil fitted and that caused me to get pelvic inflammatory disease, which was excruciatingly painful. I grew a cyst on my right ovary very rapidly. I was in and out of A&E and I had to suspend my studies at uni. In the end I had emergency surgery that resulted in the loss of my right ovary and fallopian tube and they drained five litres of fluid from the cyst. The labia minora are usually first, and sometimes more prominent during the early stages. But it can be hard to find accurate information about this.”Consultant gynecologist Dr Pandelis Athanasias says “there’s no such thing as a normal vagina – they naturally vary in size, shape or colour.” Caption: One of the contributors to the 100 Vaginas project with photographer Laura Dodsworth (right)

http://gigapeta.com/dl/3770229a1732d8 | http://rapidgator.net/file/e71a12c4831c0 b2138494a7d6957cf30 Dr Naomi Crouch, chair of the British Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology, has also noticed a “marked increase in girls and young women seeking labiaplasty” over the last few years.” I didn’t grow up with my father but I thought he was incredible. When I was a teenager, I’d go and spend the weekend with him. One night he got into bed with me and started touching me. The next day I confronted him. His reasoning was that he wanted me to realise that I had a beautiful body and that sex was a wonderful thing. I was like, ‘You’re not the right person to be teaching me any of this because you’re my father.’Lots of women were looking at themselves for the first time or they hadn’t looked at themselves much. Some of them were very well acquainted with their vulva. I feel like I’ve been a creative warrior for women, helping them reclaim their bodies and their stories – and I’m fiercely protective of them. I hope it’s a game changer, especially for young women. If I’d seen and read this when I was 18, I think my entire life would have been different. http://gigapeta.com/dl/3746864a8f42e3 | http://rapidgator.net/file/d56a49a5636ce bdfeb2b7e5208d7e189 I’m 70 and I still enjoy sex. I see my current partner for extended weekends. For half the week I do my own thing: I look after my grandchildren, I belong to a women’s drama group, I see my friends. I was ready for the menopause to happen. I think we have to come to terms with life’s changes in the most positive way we can. You lose some of your lubrication, but a little bit of spit solves that problem. The first time I took it, I felt a bit self-conscious and awkward. The first time I looked at it on my computer screen was quite a moment for me. It was big and detailed and I could see everything.

I had a stage 1B grade 3, which is small, but nasty. Thankfully it was caught early. I had my cervix removed, the surrounding kind of tissue area and the top third of my vagina and, thank God, didn’t need further treatment, like chemotherapy. I can get pregnant, but because there’s no cervix there’s a high chance of miscarriage or early birth. http://gigapeta.com/dl/3749759aad77f3 | http://rapidgator.net/file/fad94d3ce9fd8 2618b7e5a8bbee4fc17

here too, so that members can see how pretty you are (like the Frannie Adams Pussy Portraits book).