When did you first find out you had a vagina????

I don't remember how old I was, but I just had another one
of "these" talks today with my 10 year old daughter.
She inquired about menstruation and how often one has
to endure such inconveniences (she originally thought once
a year). When it came to mentioning "wa-china" she
asked what the Chinese had to do with it?

That's the same girl who thought breast feeding was gros
as the milk would turn sour after day 10.

Funny story...I told this girl that it was the hell hole, and that my @$@## was the devil, and then all she wanted to do was put the devil back into hell like a good Christian.

I found out I had a vagina while playing with a candlestick ...but the clitorous, well that came much latter

Re: When did you first find out you had a vagina????


Not really. 35 is not very young.

Odd...it's usually the other way round....

Re: When did you first find out you had a vagina????


I do not get this bit of byplay.



I was most certainly NOT 35 whan I gave my virginity the heave ho!

Lol!!


I told the troupe of boys who were my friends about menstruation.

They had all been told the same dirty joke.....which they did not really understand, but which really traumatised them. They felt too shy to ask their mums, so asked me.


We all rode off to a park on our bicycles, and I sat on a swing, while they sat in a circle around me, and I gave them very calmly and sensibly what I had just received from my mum in The Talk, which was luckily fresh in my mind, to their great relief.


I was never able to understand any shyness or funny feelings about periods. I thought it was great when mine arrived!


I had a badly infected finger, which needed a doctor to do awful and painful things to. When the pain had finished, my mum said to the doctor: "Poor girl! She's got her first period, too." The doctor was suitably sympathetic.

I got really indignant and said I thought their attitude was terrible, and that I welcomed this sign of womanhood with open arms.

Well I don't have a vagina, but this whole thing was something I just sort of absorbed from society long before my mother gave me "the talk," which probably came when I was about 9 or 10.

Yes, I suspect now is a more "discover your vagina" friendly time, in general, than it was when I was little....though I am sure individual family culture played a part in my ignorance.

Most little girls I see seem to have some idea that they have one - but not all by any means.



I am most impressed by those of you who found theirs unaided.....especially those who went looking with candles or water faucets.


Christine Columbuses all!



What about the fellas? How did you find out, and how did you feel?

That may not have been the best way to ask that question.....

Hehehe....

I'm glad you've finally asked the men to get involved, Dlowan, as I feel that we can add to this pooled knowledge in an adult, yet informative and interesting way.

I first discovered that women had a different anatomy when I walked into the bathroom, just in time to see my mother standing there, drying herself off.

I pointed and said "Mummy, what's that?"

She replied "That's where Daddy hit me with an axe, dear"

"Bloody good shot" I responded "He got you right in the c*** "

That so didn't 'elp us.

I'd guess I was six or seven--I'd learned during my bath to use it for blowing bubbles.

My first period was commemorated with my first compact.

In my mother's day--the early 20's--young women were usually stuffed into corsets on the menarche. The Flappers had reason to Roar.

My mother's family always referred to periods as "the curse"--not that we were damned but we were royally inconvenienced.

I found out all about it from my friend Jana. Her parents were strict Baptists but they did a very good job informing her and arming her with truth. My parents were very bohemian but they didn't talk about it much.

Our understanding was further enhanced by stumbling upon her brother's stash of porn which we explored like little scientists.

Mo is well aware of the difference between boys and girls -- mostly because we use the family locker room at the swim center. He has a same age cousin and they like to play in the tub together.

We try to be honest about body parts and funtion around here.

He calls his penis his penis or his "pecker" thanks to Mr. B who coaches in stand up pee methodology.

He has also been known to call it his "jellyfish" but that is in another context entirely!

He also knows about vaginas and wombs as I had to explain how our neighbors baby did live in her stomach or come out of her mouth. Typically he calls the entire part of the female anatomy her "po". I'm not really sure where that come from but I haven't really bothered to correct it since I'm not sure he really needs "labia', "clitoris", etc. in his vocabulary at this point.

I have a vagina ? ! ? ! ?

Who knew ? ! ? ! ?

I knew an Indian with a vagina:

Don't think i'd like to dine there . . .

You are not used to the world, Set...

(Dinning in a vagina).

Far too tempting . . . but i don't discuss my sexual predilections publicly . . .