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Vagina. Kegels. Vulva. Clitoris. Labia. Female genitalia.
How do you feel when you hear these words? Skirmish? Icky? Giggly?
Growing up as an Asian Canadian, talking about vaginas wasn’t exactly a dinner table topic. It was a word used in textbooks, by the school nurse, the family doctor and maybe it was heard in that episode of Sex and The City if your parents somehow had HBO and let you watch TV past 8 pm.
I still remember the first time I got my period. My mom opened up a pad, quickly demonstrated how to put it on, then closed the pad up, just like the conversation.
No talk about hormones, what menstruation was, and obviously, nothing about the emotional cycles associated with a monthly period.
By Katharine ChanVagina. Kegels. Vulva. Clitoris. Labia. Female genitalia.
How do you feel when you hear these words? Skirmish? Icky? Giggly?
Growing up as an Asian Canadian, talking about vaginas wasn’t exactly a dinner table topic. It was a word used in textbooks, by the school nurse, the family doctor and maybe it was heard in that episode of Sex and The City if your parents somehow had HBO and let you watch TV past 8 pm.
I still remember the first time I got my period. My mom opened up a pad, quickly demonstrated how to put it on, then closed the pad up, just like the conversation.
No talk about hormones, what menstruation was, and obviously, nothing about the emotional cycles associated with a monthly period.