Vagina Obscura
An Anatomical Voyage

One of the questions I found myself asking scientists most often as I reported on this book was: why has it taken until now for science to investigate [insert obvious thing]? For example: What makes a healthy vaginal ecosystem? How does the menstrual cycle actually work? What is the G-spot, reall......more

Open any medical textbook not written in the last five years or so and you will likely see that the vulva, if it is mentioned at all, is referred to by the Latin word pudendum. If your textbook happens to be in German, you will probably see that the labia is labeled as Schamlippen. Do you know why?......more

If I could go back in time and give this book to my 18 year-old self, maybe I could have handled some of the complications in my relationships better. Having been raised in a restrictive, fundamentalist religious environment, my ignorance of women's bodies was even more vast than a typical male's, a......more

FASCINATING. my only complaint was not enough pictures. And WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS I really enjoyed the parts on philosophy and history most, but some of the biological and scientific pieces of information could have benefitted from having accompanying graphs or charts and diagrams. For some of the......more

Vaginas are cool. As a heterosexual cis-gender male, I’ve always kind of dug them, but until first seeing one up-close when I was a sophomore in college, I only ever read about them in books or looked at (air-brushed) photos of them in magazines. Those weren’t accurate depictions either, as they had......more