Jessica Pin
1 min readJun 7, 2018

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It isn’t porn who are making women feel like their vulvas are not normal. It is OB/GYNs. Research has shown that far more women get their ideas of normality from medical literature, online medical publications, physicians websites, doctors in person, etc. The influence of porn is exaggerated because they are the easiest to blame.

I personally had no insecurities at all until I started googling “labia minora” and saw what was on doctors’ websites. Then I read the peer reviewed medical literature which told me protruding labia were “unfeminine” and “embarrassing.” I read shaming fallacies such as “may be caused by excess androgens” (false) and “may be caused by excess masturbation” (unsupported).

Had I watched porn, I would have known better. There is actually tons of protruding labia minora in porn. Whoever is saying there isn’t clearly hasn’t watched enough porn and/or is blind.

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Jessica Pin
Jessica Pin

Written by Jessica Pin

Getting clitoral neural anatomy included in OB/GYN textbooks. It was finally added for the first time in July 2019. BME/EE @WUSTL

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