How many holes does a vagina have and what is the use of each one?
On the off chance that this is some sort of troll (hell, any female could tell you the answer, and if you have problems associating with them, there’s always the encyclopedia), I’ll answer the question as posed and then there will be no need for anyone else to follow up and the topic can die off without further ado.
If you mean “holes” as in “exits to the outside of the body,” the vagina has two. One is the end of the urethra and is used for passing urine. The other, larger one is the end of the birth canal and is used for copulation and delivering babies.
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Nurlman: …I’ll answer the question as posed and then there will be no need for anyone else to follow up and the topic can die off without further ado.
Except that your answer is right for the wrong reason.
Nurlman: If you mean “holes” as in “exits to the outside of the body,” the vagina has two. One is the end of the urethra and is used for passing urine. The other, larger one is the end of the birth canal and is used for copulation and delivering babies.
The vagina is the passage leading from the uterus to the vulva in certain female mammals. It therefore has two “holes”: one internal and one external.
The end of the urethra is part of the vulva (the external female genitalia), not the vagina.
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Why would anyone make that question
their first & only post? Strange. Hey, lots of anatomy books around.
Could the entrance to the cervix be considered?
Okay, this is a stretch. But stay with me. If Courtney Love was inside… ahh, nevermind.
Nurlman, you self rightous prick. Maybe if you didn’t spend so much time telling yourself how witty and intelligent you (and the rest of the self appointed troll hunters) are you would have been able to answer this simple anatomical tidbit correctly. But as you couldn’t I can only assume that you’ve never actually seen a vagina, associated with a “female” who does, or don’t own an encyclopedia. Even AWB couldn’t get it right. While the urethral orifice was correctly identified as part of the vulva and not the vagina, the internal hole referred to is actually the cervical os and is part of the cervix, not the vagina. The vagina would have a second hole only if it was removed.
Well let’s consider this in laymen’s terms and what the OP wanted to know. 2 holes, one for passing urine and one for intercourse and where the baby passes out. The pisser is on top.
There are a set of big lips (labia majora), then a set of smaller lips with mucous membranes (labia minora).
I would consider that when you open the labia minora that is the external hole, because the mucous membranes are now exposed to the outside.
Once you open the labia minora there are two holes, the upper one to pass urine and the lower bigger one for intercourse. I wish the Straight Dope was available when I was a kid. BTW, I hope the OP is not under 18.
Oh purleez, since when has description of anatomy been obscene and restricted to over 18s? Anyhow, lets not feed the troll too much.
It’s easier on men, they only have one. On women, I would say a vagina has one too, vagina is the canal:
va•gi•na \ve-"ji-ne\ noun pl va•gi•nae -(’)ne\ or va•gi•nas [L, lit., sheath] (1682)
1 : a canal in a female mammal that leads from the uterus to the external orifice of the genital canal
2 : a canal that is similar in function or location to the vagina and occurs in various animals other than mammals
©1996 Zane Publishing, Inc. and Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. All rights reserved.
Don’t get your panties in a bunch, Jimbo. I assumed the OP was speaking colloquially-- “holes” not being the most precise of medical terminology-- and therefore answered the question with the same casualness. I assume that anyone who has to ask how many openings a vagina has is probably using “vagina” to refer generally to “that whole area down there,” and not to the specific anatomical structure as distinguished from the vulva, labia, etc.
Of course, if you want to assume that the OP is fully aware that the vulva and vagina are anatomically distinct and was only looking for information about the vagina, not the vulva, then yes, I was wrong. And in that case, you’ve likely got some 14-year old kid out there thinking that Mommy pees through the same opening that little Timmy came out of.
Seems to me, the self-righteous one is the person who smugly assumes that everyone shares his level of knowledge and would rather provide a technically correct but practically misleading answer to someone who obviously is not as sophisticated as he is. Physician, heal thyself.
I remind you that I was not the one who answered the OP fearful of some nasty little troll as you did. I simply took his question at face value and answered it. End of story. And if he was some 14 yr old pervert(and i dare anyone here to claim **they ** weren’t)
so what? Act your age, not his. Fact is if you had answered the question correctly to begin with (and without the self rightous indignation that a troll has soiled your beloved SD) I wouldn’t hafta spend my time settin’ you straight and the post count wold have ended at 1.
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*JamesCarroll: Even AWB couldn’t get it right. While the urethral orifice was correctly identified as part of the vulva and not the vagina, the internal hole referred to is actually the cervical os and is part of the cervix, not the vagina. The vagina would have a second hole only if it was removed. *
Topologically speaking, it does have two “holes”. That there is a given name to the structure at the ends matters not. E.g., the stomach has two holes, with named structures at each orifice, the pylorus and the lower esophageal sphincter.
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True, but the question as I read it referred only to the vagina, not other structures it may be connected to. As such, it has one.
I think we may need to use pictures to prove our points.
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FilFil never even wrote another message after his initial question. Hmmmmmm
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