# Do larger women have deeper vaginas?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-larger-women-have-deeper-vaginas/413534
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [July 28, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-larger-women-have-deeper-vaginas/413534 "2007-07-28T22:20:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-larger-women-have-deeper-vaginas/413534/1 "2007-07-28T22:20:44Z")
Inspired by this [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=429886) , I began to wonder. Now it is to the point that I am willing to ask a truly stupid question (regardless of what my first grade teacher said). I would also appreciate any posters not posting Spinal Tap lyrics until the question has been answered.
I would assume the depth of the vagina varies woman to woman, so would a baseline have to be taken and then another measurement made as the woman gains or loses weight?
Any ideas?
SSG Schwartz
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### Author:  [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2007, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-larger-women-have-deeper-vaginas/413534/2 "2007-07-28T22:32:56Z")
I know some dimension of the vagina changes with weight. If you use a diaphragm for contraception, you’re supposed to get the fit re-evaluated if you gain or lose more than 10 pounds.
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### Author:  [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2007, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-larger-women-have-deeper-vaginas/413534/3 "2007-07-28T22:40:09Z")
[QUOTE=cwthree]
I know some dimension of the vagina changes with weight. If you use a diaphragm for contraception, you’re supposed to get the fit re-evaluated if you gain or lose more than 10 pounds.
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Thanks, Chief, but is one of the dimensions that changes depth, or is it that the penetration depth is changed because the belly gets in the way?
SSG Schwartz
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### Author:  [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2007, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-larger-women-have-deeper-vaginas/413534/4 "2007-07-28T22:42:13Z")
In my high wire days, I was with a number of women.
Larger women (Size, not weight) have a greater depth. With one "smaller"woman, I commented that I could feel her diaphram at the end of my unit.
Not bragging, just saying
FML
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### Author:  [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-larger-women-have-deeper-vaginas/413534/5 "2007-07-29T00:09:35Z")
Well, like I’ve said in the previous post, I am just under 5’ 9" and overweight. Twice, I’ve been told that I have exceptionally tight vaginal walls. That is, um, by qualified doctors. Once, the doctor mentioned that I had a very long vaginal vault.
Really, about that only way to measure such things is to stick something up there, and I’ve found that unless it’s in highly romantic circumstances, I really don’t enjoy it all that much.
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### Author:  [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-larger-women-have-deeper-vaginas/413534/6 "2007-07-29T00:14:55Z")
[QUOTE=phouka]
Well, like I’ve said in the previous post, I am just under 5’ 9" and overweight. Twice, I’ve been told that I have exceptionally tight vaginal walls. That is, um, by qualified doctors. Once, the doctor mentioned that I had a very long vaginal vault.
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Er, did you say “thank you”?
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### Author:  [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-larger-women-have-deeper-vaginas/413534/7 "2007-07-29T00:15:36Z")
[QUOTE=phouka]
Well, like I’ve said in the previous post, I am just under 5’ 9" and overweight. Twice, I’ve been told that I have exceptionally tight vaginal walls. That is, um, by qualified doctors. Once, the doctor mentioned that I had a very long vaginal vault.
Really, about that only way to measure such things is to stick something up there, and I’ve found that unless it’s in highly romantic circumstances, I really don’t enjoy it all that much.
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I just read your post in the other thread. Thanks for your input, but only by field research can we truly fight ignorance. So how does wine, roses, a bathroom scale, and a tape measure sound?
SSG Schwartz
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### Author:  [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-larger-women-have-deeper-vaginas/413534/8 "2007-07-29T00:18:59Z")
[QUOTE=Sgt Schwartz]
I just read your post in the other thread. Thanks for your input, but only by field research can we truly fight ignorance. So how does wine, roses, a bathroom scale, and a tape measure sound?
SSG Schwartz
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Don’t forget the thermometer.
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### Author:  [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-larger-women-have-deeper-vaginas/413534/9 "2007-07-29T00:21:33Z")
Uh… in what order? And the roses are for atmosphere, _right?_
And, **Kneepants** , by the time she was done, I wanted her bludgeoned to death and her corpse fed to the dogs in the street as a warning to others. Do not compliment a woman in that manner and then call for the “extra large” speculum.
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### Author:  [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-larger-women-have-deeper-vaginas/413534/10 "2007-07-29T00:26:54Z")
[QUOTE=phouka]
Uh… in what order? And the roses are for atmosphere, _right?_
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Wine first, always wine first, then roses with the thorns plucked and waxed, for atmosphere of course, heh, heh, heh. You will then step on the scale to the sounds of the Velvet Fog, finally, a tape measure will be used.
SSG Schwartz
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### Author:  [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-larger-women-have-deeper-vaginas/413534/11 "2007-07-29T00:33:02Z")
To step on a bathroom scale in front of a man, I would have to be well and truly drunk.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-larger-women-have-deeper-vaginas/413534/12 "2007-07-29T02:42:36Z")
Ok, how about this: I sweep you into my arms, and then I step on the bathroom scale. Then, shortly after I set you down, I discreetly step onto the scale by myself. Drunkenness on your part is optional.
Better?
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### Author:  [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-larger-women-have-deeper-vaginas/413534/13 "2007-07-29T15:17:51Z")
[QUOTE=Sgt Schwartz]
Wine first, always wine first, then roses with the thorns plucked and waxed, for atmosphere of course, heh, heh, heh. You will then step on the scale to the sounds of the Velvet Fog, finally, a tape measure will be used.
SSG Schwartz
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Sounds like something taken from Smoove B’s repertoire.
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### Author:  [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-larger-women-have-deeper-vaginas/413534/14 "2007-07-29T15:20:32Z")
[QUOTE=fisha]
Don’t forget the thermometer.
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And the chocolates, don’t forget the chocolates
why are you now SSG Schwartz, used to be SG \<\\>
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### Author:  [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-larger-women-have-deeper-vaginas/413534/15 "2007-07-29T15:55:06Z")
Well, since it is for science…_take me!_
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### Author:  [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-larger-women-have-deeper-vaginas/413534/16 "2007-07-29T16:22:21Z")
[QUOTE=chowder]
And the chocolates, don’t forget the chocolates
why are you now SSG Schwartz, used to be SG \<\\>
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[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=427227&highlight=staff+sergeant](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=427227&highlight=staff+sergeant)
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### Author:  [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-larger-women-have-deeper-vaginas/413534/17 "2007-07-29T16:23:43Z")
[QUOTE=phouka]
Well, since it is for science…_take me!_
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“He blinded her with science…”
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### Author:  [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-larger-women-have-deeper-vaginas/413534/18 "2007-07-29T18:14:25Z")
[QUOTE=fisha]
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=427227&highlight=staff+sergeant](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=427227&highlight=staff+sergeant)
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Thanks and congrats to SSG Schwartz.
“Sir, yes sir” 😛
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### Author:  [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-larger-women-have-deeper-vaginas/413534/19 "2007-07-29T19:51:44Z")
Hey, I remember reading that thread. Congrats, Sarge! (Must refrain from bad staff jokes.)
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### Author:  [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2007, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-larger-women-have-deeper-vaginas/413534/20 "2007-07-30T13:52:01Z")
[QUOTE=chowder]
Thanks and congrats to SSG Schwartz.
“Sir, yes sir” 😛
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Thanks, **chowder** , and FTR, I work for a living. (No, sir)
And thank you, **phouka**. Do not ask to see my Staff however. 😃
SSG Schwartz
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