What is a pretty pussy

Pussies come in all sizes and forms: hairy, neatly trimmed, smooth, bumpy, floppy, lopsided, brown, pink…. Still, having a pretty pussy is something that women would love to have, or maintain, primarily for their own sake. In itself, the vagina is a beautiful thing. It holds a lot of secret and power.

It can help with body image anxiety. Now, her latest work puts vulvas and vaginas in the spotlight thanks to her new book Womanhood: The Bare Reality and forthcoming Channel 4 documentary: Vaginas. And when women share intimate photos and deeply personal experiences relating to their vaginas, the result is a tender yet taboo-exploding message of women reclaiming their womanhood. I think a part of me was shying away from that intimacy because I would have to address my own related experiences. The correct language and understanding of female genitalia is so important to me: the vulva is the whole external package, the vagina is a muscular tube which leads from the cervix the neck of the womb down to the vulva. Later, a BBC report about girls as young as nine seeking labiaplasty — surgery that involves the lips of the vagina being shortened or reshaped — because they were distressed by its appearance, had Laura reaching for her camera again.

Last month, reports emerged that a sex toy manufacturer was launching a worldwide competition to find the world's most beautiful vagina. We have an answer. That's it. It's nothing less, it's nothing more.

You know the saying "No two snowflakes are exactly alike? There is no one right way for a vagina to look, meaning that there's no such thing as a perfect one. If anyone should know that, it's an OB-GYN who's been seeing patients, and their vaginas, for nearly three decades. The only qualities that make a vagina "perfect" are good health and confidence. Here is an overview of what normal anatomy looks like for the female external genitalia.