THANKS, CASUAL SEX!

I just want to say thank you. As a teenager I was kind of conditioned to believed that my vulva was ugly - by porn... I kept telling myself that I wanted to stay virgin till 18, because I'm "not a whore", and stuff like that. But come on, we all know that was bullshit. Soon I realized that the reason I wanted to stay a virgin is because I was VERY self conscious about my vulva. I honestly thought it was disgusting and never wanted to show it to anyone else. So when I first had sex, I was pretty much shocked. The guy didn't care. At all. The next one. Didn't care. The next one, the next one and so on. They ALL told me I was beautiful, while having sex. And that made me realize, I was normal. Thanks, casual sex!

I am normal, I am beautiful, my vulva is beautiful. And your account is beautiful. THANK YOU for showing women, girls that they are normal and beautiful!

I THOUGHT I LOOKED WEIRD

I just wanted to say that you're amazing. I remember when I was younger I thought mine looked so weird because I thought it was different from some dirty magazine I'd once seen on accident. It was really upsetting and I felt so different. I've learned now that no vaginas are the same, but even still I didn't realise how much I needed to read the things you say in captions until I added you recently. Thank you so much!

EDUCATING MY LITTLE SISTER

Hi there, I'm sure you get so many messages telling you how wonderful your work is, but I wanted to tell you how it has truly made me feel better about myself. I've gotten my young sister to take a look at your page so she can understand and acknowledge there are loads of different vulvas and every one of them is normal so she doesn't grow up ever thinking hers isn't normal as many of my friends and I have.

I think your work is truly incredible so I just wanted to say thank you.

REASSURANCE

Oh my goodness! You are such a gem. Honestly, you've made my day. Thank you SO much for representing vulvas of so many different shapes, sizes, colours, just everything. I've seen a recent post of yours and ..... for the first time ever, I saw an illustration and thought ..... wow!!! That looks just like me!!!!! I've NEVER felt any kind of reassurance from ANY sort of media about that area and the fact that you're dedicating an entire page of Instagram to bringing this feeling of belonging and joy to so many women makes me so happy. You are to be immensely congratulated. It is a feeling like no other. I've always felt that I'm strange, odd even, not rightly shaped down there in certain ways, since my main exposure to vulvas and majority of people's I'm assuming is through porn, which whilst I know is extremely unrealistic grows this feeling inside of you that you're not good enough somehow if you don't look like this prim, proper, perfectly shaven and basically inner labia-less vulvas. But YOU'RE working to change that and it is just so so beautiful that you are, and I cannot thank you enough, not just from me but on behalf of all women who have the privilege of following your page. Hope you have a beautiful day.

THANK YOU

I just wanted to say thank you. Thank you for your illustrations and convincing me that my vulva is perfectly "normal" and not too long, too ruffly, too pinkish brown, or gross. I'm 41, and I can't believe it took me this long to accept myself. I love what you're doing!!

I FEEL BETTER NOW

Thank you for this account. I always feel like my vulva just sort of looks too "big" like the labia are too "out there." But it's because all images are inaccurate representations that make it look like women have cute little vulvas that don't really have any labia. But I feel better now.

BE PROUD OF YOUR BODY

You are amazing. Love your work. I think that whatever size or shape body you have, it’s important to embrace it and get down! The female body is something that’s so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women for being proud of theirs!

VULVA ART MADE ME REALISE I'M PERFECTLY NORMAL

I really appreciate your work! Like so many others I used to think that my vulva was weird and abnormal just because I once read online an article describing how to perform oral sex with something like 'separate the outer labia to get to the inner ones' and I was just thinking WHAT - 'cause my inner labia were so very much on the "outside", so I googled a bit only to stumble upon others in forums who were equally worried about their labia being too much. Sadly some of the comments from ignorant guys got to me, saying that if the inner labia were too visible, they should be hidden by a certain amount of pubic hair... I felt ashamed about it for years, until I eventually came across a wide variety of vulvae presented through art like yours, illustrating that no matter how it looks it's perfectly normal!

I still need to practice my self love in that area, but I'm just so thankful there's people like you making and effort to promote the natural beauty of the female genitalia and inspire us all to love and accept ourselves for who we are. It's so important and your work gives me hope that especially the younger generation will come to realise this truth a lot sooner than I did. So thank you!

- A little side note to my story: in the Norwegian language there is a lot of words describing parts of female genitale consisting of the word 'skam' which translates to 'shame', which obviously is a very negative association to be stuck with from the first time one learns the different names. But apparently our word for cunt (fitte) stems from a word that means wetland, which is pretty nice!

EMBRACE YOUR VULVA

When I was around 13 years old I went to this party with my friend in a smaller town, it was her cousin's social group. This boy walked up to me and asked me if I had "beef curtains" and then the group of them burst into laughter. I didn't originally know what he was talking about until someone explained to me her was referring to my inner vaginal lips. I've got "meat" down there so this absolutely traumatized me that my lips could be dubbed into a mockable category of vaginas. I wondered if he asked me this because I was chubby, or why they would choose me for such a question! I still have bouts of insecurity towards my vagina and have been worried about it being too saggy or long in that nature since then. Thankfully I have had some really healthy partners that have boosted my self esteem in this department. Nevertheless, this affected me very harshly as a growing woman. As self love has taken over, I prefer it! Even in other women I always find bigger minora lips to be more beautiful to me! Embrace your vulva, no matter the size of any of it!

Gender Inclusivity

I love your account so much for so many reasons! It’s a little heartbreaking that so many people, myself included, have spent so many years in feeling that our vulvas are “gross” and should look differently. It took me until this year, when I found your page and entered into a relationship with a great, loving person, that I have actually totally accepted how my vulva looks. Because it’s normal! I also really love that in your posts, you never say “women with vulvas”, you say “people with vulvas”. There needs to be more trans and nonbinary inclusion in body positivity, and you are doing that so thank you so much!