Whoosh!
(I think the first hand reporting referred to uh, exploration of the body parts pictured in the article by the reader…)
I considered that, but posted anyway. If the subject was masturbation…
I guess it could be first-hand (and second hand and tool) from the OB/GYN’s perspective.
Sorry, I was seaching for the right term, I wasn’t trying to be clever. The article described the writer’s subjective experience at the GYN. Unlike an article which describes, say, is what a visit is generally like – a more objective approach – this article was specific in describing the experience of one person, and how that persona felt at various steps in the process.
eleanorigby: I have a filthy mind, but you just gave me too much credit. I honestly wasn’t thinking anything along those lines when I posted my question.
I’m laughing at it now, but the joke is yours, not mine.
I wonder if she can be convinced that Carrie was a documantary. 
So that explains the confettini and band playing every time I get laid! 
Like our business card says, we’ll play anywhere, anytime.
Ok, but the clown and the balloons are a bit too much.
Hell, if that magazine was dirty, then medical textbooks ought to be waaaaay up on the top shelf with Hustler at the gas station!
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Unbelieveable. So many things in the world progress at breakneck speed, and yet Western culture still can’t get past the Puritanical view of the body being shameful.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
Is the East doing that much better?
Preferably several times a day.
Can’t be too safe these days.
Indeed. danceswithcats, having met me, you of all people should know that I consider laying siege to be a good thing!
The attitude brought up in OP, however, is not a good thing. I’m still trying to wrap my head around them. Is it honestly better to let young women suffer from easily treatable diseases rather than teach them about what they are and how to treat them? I’ve had a yeast infection; it’s dead uncomfortable, but easy to get rid of. So, I gather are urinary tract infections. I know Christianity has long taught that women are inherently more sinful and dirty creatures than men (thank you, St. Augustine and St. Paul :rolleyes: ) but I’d hoped those attitudes were passing. Would the mothers who called for the banning prefer that their daughters learn about what vulvas look like by looking at Playboy or Penhouse? Are they honestly incapable of distinguishing between illustrations of genitalia used for education and pictures of genitalia used to induce arousal? I admit the former can also induce arousal, but that wasn’t the intention of the article and, having been a horny but prudish teenage girl, I can assure you so can a lot of other more innocuous things. Then again, I suppose I shouldn’t be suprised. I’ve read that there are parents who oppose giving their daughters the new HPV vaccine because, by preventing a sexually transmitted disease which causes cervical cancer, they feel it might be responsible for increased promiscuity. There ain’t enough :rolleyes: in the world!
CJ
See, my mother had a whole bunch of medical textbook on a high shelf. Having read every other book in the house (and I mean EVERY other book) I finally got around to them aged about 9.
A 1960s illustrated OB/Gyn textbook which ascribed to the Freudian theory of “immature” clitoral orgasms and “mature” vaginal orgasms and called lesbians “perverts” was not a great introduction the the inner workings of the female body. It left an indelible impression on me, mostly because even at that age I realised that those weren’t particularly healthy ideas…the pictures didn’t really affect me much.
Thank Og I took it to my mother who went through it with me, and told me that the men who wrote it were very old with very odd ideas and I should just ignore them.
Mrs Rosa, your daughter’s getting good, objective, up-to-date advice that isn’t going to scare her or make her feel like a freak. What the hell is your problem?
You’re probably one of those women who think you pee from your vagina…
Siege, actually, there WERE pictures of vaginas, not just illustrations. Someone at an LJ discussion community posted scans-there were two showing the differences in various labia sizes, and one that had a close up of a yeast infection (so close, in fact, you really couldn’t distinguish what part of the body it came from), in order to show what abnormal discharge looks like.
Trust me, they were anything but arrousing.
The link in the OP is broken… here’s a fixed link.
But you can be two safe!
My letter to Albertson’s:
:smack: Luckily I fixed the spelling of Albertsons before sending it.