# Learning about vaginas - not safe for work (and not funny) video **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 13, 2007, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-about-vaginas-not-safe-for-work-and-not-funny-video/426299 "2007-11-13T23:03:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-about-vaginas-not-safe-for-work-and-not-funny-video/426299/41 "2007-11-14T06:02:38Z")
[QUOTE=BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed] 3 holes?! :eek: oh… you mean the all-encompassing “down there.” …or have I been missing something? :dubious: [/QUOTE] I think she meant urethra, vagina and anus. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-about-vaginas-not-safe-for-work-and-not-funny-video/426299/42 "2007-11-14T06:04:42Z")
I’ve always liked the mouth, left nostril and urethra best, myself. If you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go bang my head against the wall until that thought bleeds out of my forehead. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-about-vaginas-not-safe-for-work-and-not-funny-video/426299/43 "2007-11-14T06:19:38Z")
[QUOTE=Flander] My birthday is Saturday. I’m going to order this for my birthday dinner. 😃 [/QUOTE] Good luck, man! I’d eat it every day if I could 😛 ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-about-vaginas-not-safe-for-work-and-not-funny-video/426299/44 "2007-11-14T06:56:28Z")
[QUOTE=Cat Fight] The irony is, except for this episode, Tyra is not exactly a friend to women’s bodies. She had a show recently about women who looove sex and pretty much concluded that they all had problems. You can tell the woman’s never had an orgasm in her life. [/QUOTE] Tyra Banks, in her previous career, was the number one model in the Victoria’s Secret stable of lingerie hotties. In her present incarnation, she loves all of you, and she feels your pain. It’s a talk-show thing. “I understand what you’re going through, even though you aren’t lovely like me.” ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-about-vaginas-not-safe-for-work-and-not-funny-video/426299/45 "2007-11-14T07:00:24Z")
Tyra Banks is not lovely. I’ll grant that she may well have been lovely during her modeling days (I’ll believe it when I see it), but she is a hideous beast now. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-about-vaginas-not-safe-for-work-and-not-funny-video/426299/46 "2007-11-14T08:07:07Z")
She creeps me out…something about that overly made up face. She just screams dragon lady to me now. Twiggy looks older (as she is) and not as in your face–clearly not the young waif she once was–but I’ll take her any day over Tyra. Even Janice Dickinson I prefer–she’s an uber bitch but she’s not a bitch pretending to be your best friend and being their for “her girls” on “Top Model” the way Tyra Banks is. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-about-vaginas-not-safe-for-work-and-not-funny-video/426299/47 "2007-11-14T08:54:09Z")
[QUOTE=whiterabbit] My vulva smells like…vulva. Clean vulva. [/QUOTE] Frankly, I’m just impressed you can get your own nose so close to it! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-about-vaginas-not-safe-for-work-and-not-funny-video/426299/48 "2007-11-14T09:17:28Z")
[QUOTE=NinjaChick] I’ve never understood the kind of militant attitude that ‘we must educate women about their bodies or else we’ve failed as a society!’ Women are going to understand the practical applications (so to speak) of their hardware. Why do you need to know more? I mean, I have no idea what exactly my spleen or kidneys look like, but that doesn’t effect my ability to use or enjoy them. [/QUOTE] I think this kind of education is more for women who don’t know anything about their genitalia, whether willfully or otherwise. And I think it’s good. The whole (haha) empowerment thing. It helps fight the “female genitalia are mysterious and dirty and if you are menstruating you are shunned from the village” mentality that has served to oppress women and female sexuality for, oh, 5000 years or so. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-about-vaginas-not-safe-for-work-and-not-funny-video/426299/49 "2007-11-14T13:11:49Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] If I recall correctly, a while back, we had a thread about the vulva puppets, and someone made a parody of the Muppet Show theme, only with the “vulva puppets”. And you can have [one](http://www.yoni.com/gifts/healing-gifts/the-wondrous-vulva-puppet-27.html) for your very own! [/QUOTE] “Feed me, Seymour… Feed me all night long.” ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-about-vaginas-not-safe-for-work-and-not-funny-video/426299/50 "2007-11-14T13:32:10Z")
[QUOTE=NinjaChick] I’ve never understood the kind of militant attitude that ‘we must educate women about their bodies or else we’ve failed as a society!’ Women are going to understand the practical applications (so to speak) of their hardware. Why do you need to know more? I mean, I have no idea what exactly my spleen or kidneys look like, but that doesn’t effect my ability to use or enjoy them. Also, what was the context for this? I’ve never had any urge to do naked yoga in front of a mirror to take a gander - what possible talk-show premise created this clip? [/QUOTE] First, I have to think that my daughter will have an easier time getting the care she needs when she says to a doctor, “My urethra burns when I pee,” or “my vagina itches,” versus a friend of hers who will be saying, “My tootie is bothering me.” Ditto for later sexual satisfaction - if you can’t tell your partner what to do, don’t expect to have a great time. (And yes, my 4yo knows “vulva,” “clitoris,” and “vagina” already.) As for needing to take a look down there, here are examples just from my life: I once had a suspicious mole in my interlabial sulcus (that was a fun biopsy!), so I was damn glad I was familiar with the area, noticed something felt wrong, and had the comfort level to take a look. I also had to learn to catheterize myself after a bladder injury during childbirth. Oh, and speaking of that, knowing how to check cervical mucus, and even find your cervix and judge its firmness and position, is a very useful tool in getting (and not getting) pregnant. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-about-vaginas-not-safe-for-work-and-not-funny-video/426299/51 "2007-11-14T14:06:01Z")
[QUOTE=Zsofia] I’m so torn [/QUOTE] You should have that checked. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-about-vaginas-not-safe-for-work-and-not-funny-video/426299/52 "2007-11-14T14:08:19Z")
I’m not that flexible, **Mangetout**! But I think it’s a safe guess, since I bathe and all. I’m not asking my ex-boyfriend! I sure as hell didn’t mean to bring up the risotto thing. _ulp_ And yes, by three holes I was including the anus. “Down There” to my mind sort of encompasses the whole area. “Vulva” is the specifically girly part. “Vagina” is…well, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-about-vaginas-not-safe-for-work-and-not-funny-video/426299/53 "2007-11-14T14:27:53Z")
[QUOTE=Unauthorized Cinnamon] I also had to learn to catheterize myself after a bladder injury during childbirth. [/QUOTE] You had to catheterize yourself? I’m going to have nightmares now. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-about-vaginas-not-safe-for-work-and-not-funny-video/426299/54 "2007-11-14T14:31:50Z")
Uck, that is going to give me nightmares, too, and I am speaking as one who had to wear a catheter. Once. (No, I’m not doing the joke.) I was 8 or 9 and had urinary tract problems and it was TORTURE. I find it amusing though, that a vagina thread on the boards can turn into a Tyra hijack. Whoever Tyra is. **NinjaChick** , I know you don’t think one needs to know anymore. But you seem to at least be able to know when something’s wrong. If you have never even looked at yourself you have no idea. Plus I don’t like the idea of all those girls growing up to think they’re dirty somehow. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-about-vaginas-not-safe-for-work-and-not-funny-video/426299/55 "2007-11-14T14:38:30Z")
[QUOTE=whiterabbit] I’m not that flexible, **Mangetout**! [/QUOTE] In my imagination you are. Forever. Just kidding. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-about-vaginas-not-safe-for-work-and-not-funny-video/426299/56 "2007-11-14T14:58:52Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] You had to catheterize yourself? I’m going to have nightmares now. [/QUOTE] It’s worse than that. For a moment I read that as “cauterize”. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-about-vaginas-not-safe-for-work-and-not-funny-video/426299/57 "2007-11-14T15:02:45Z")
Now why did you all have to go and call it a Muppet Vagina? Now I’ve got that stupid song stuck in my head. Only except now instead of picturing cute little muppets; I’m picturing singing vaginas! - It’s time to play the music It’s time to light the lights it’s time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight. It’s time to put on makeup It’s time to dress up right It’s time to raise the curtain on the Muppet Show tonight…\* Oh, God the laughter! It hurts! Make it stop! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-about-vaginas-not-safe-for-work-and-not-funny-video/426299/58 "2007-11-14T16:11:50Z")
[QUOTE=AskNott] Tyra Banks, in her previous career, was the number one model in the Victoria’s Secret stable of lingerie hotties. In her present incarnation, she loves all of you, and she feels your pain. It’s a talk-show thing. “I understand what you’re going through, even though you aren’t lovely like me.” [/QUOTE] Oh I know exactly who she is- the woman who keeps letting one or two plus-sized models onto America’s Next Top Model then cutting them when they lose weight or aren’t confident enough compared to their ‘regular-sized’ housemates. ---
**Author:** ![5que](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/3bc359/32.png) [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-about-vaginas-not-safe-for-work-and-not-funny-video/426299/59 "2007-11-14T17:10:55Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] OTOH, I do not get the attraction to Tyra Banks _at all_. Not one single bit. She seemed a little too affectionate with the woman to her left, too. [/QUOTE] I’m glad I’m not the only one who heard the _wonka-wonka_ porno music in my head when Tyra put her arm around the waist of that blonde. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-about-vaginas-not-safe-for-work-and-not-funny-video/426299/60 "2007-11-14T17:40:26Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] Sorry, folks. I haven’t had cable for several years now so I don’t have the faintest idea who Tyra is. Sorry she’s annoying. [/QUOTE] Cable has nothing to do with it. She’s usually on major networks. In your area, she’s on Fox23 at 10am. I have never seen her show. And I never will. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-about-vaginas-not-safe-for-work-and-not-funny-video/426299.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-about-vaginas-not-safe-for-work-and-not-funny-video/426299.md?page=4)