100 Vaginas review – an extraordinary and empowering spread of the legs

It’s not until you see a full set of female genitals filling your TV screen that you realise how little they feature in our culture. Bravo, Laura Dodsworth

Me and my vulva: 100 women reveal all

First things first: the documentary 100 Vaginas (Channel 4) was not about 100 vaginas – it was about 100 vulvas. They were photographed up close and personal by the artist Laura Dodsworth with their owners invited to sit, look and talk about them afterwards as part of a project that follows on from similar ones she has done involving breasts and penises (separately, for the avoidance of doubt). Presumably the powers that be thought calling it 100 Vulvas would lead too many unsuspecting viewers to settle down in anticipation of a programme about the history of Swedish engineering.

It was not. It did what it should have said on the tin. My mother was a gynaecologist for nearly 40 years and I now feel like the Queen Mother felt about the bombed-out East End after Buckingham Palace was hit; I can look her in the eye. Mainly because I’m never looking at anyone anywhere else ever again.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2GSejUg