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Even though she refers to it as the hardest part of the project, Laura believes including so many of these harrowing experiences adds to the impact of her message – because there is no singular female experience. 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. “The idea that girls and young women think their vagina is ugly and want to change how it looks is just wrong, and sad.” I continued having pain, but I kept being told it was normal. It turned out I have endometriosis, uterine polyps and fibroids, which was a blow on top of a missing ovary. The really big deal was finding out that if I waited too long, I would be unlikely to conceive naturally, if at all. http://gigapeta.com/dl/3772191a115d31 | http://rapidgator.net/file/7f7a0cf28174c 01377d9331c84e7a74b I’m 70 and I still enjoy sex. I see my current partner for extended weekends. For half the week I do my own thing: I look after my grandchildren, I belong to a women’s drama group, I see my friends. I was ready for the menopause to happen. I think we have to come to terms with life’s changes in the most positive way we can. You lose some of your lubrication, but a little bit of spit solves that problem.

The idea that women are turning away from pleasure because they’re worried about what they look, smell and taste like has unearthed a fundamental message for Laura.Over a few weeks, I bled a lot between periods, and also after sex with my boyfriend at the time. I googled bleeding and it came up with lots of different things: an STI, hormonal imbalance, cervical cancer. They are very well done, and I have spent some time analyzing the faces of the women, and their respective pussies. http://gigapeta.com/dl/3778872a9e9bab | http://rapidgator.net/file/a03b58b68160f a30a1dec06ccdd2b474 http://gigapeta.com/dl/3749759aad77f3 | http://rapidgator.net/file/fad94d3ce9fd8 2618b7e5a8bbee4fc17

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Shame is a really big problem for human beings,” she sighs. “Where I’ve found that, generally, men are under pressure to be ‘enough’ – big enough, getting laid enough, rich enough, man enough – women feel like they’re ‘too much’ – too fat, too hairy, too saggy, too female. Frankly, we just need to be as we are. Yes, you can look at the photos and go ‘Wow, we all look really different’, but it’s also about connecting with the honesty of these stories. Because if you find yourself feeling admiration, pride and inspiration for another person, it becomes easier to apply that to yourself, too.”

http://gigapeta.com/dl/4108433a6fcd12 | http://rapidgator.net/file/ad87825090ac9 533853747495a7c07b1 http://gigapeta.com/dl/3770229a1732d8 | http://rapidgator.net/file/e71a12c4831c0 b2138494a7d6957cf30 I was afraid of penises my whole life. First I wanted to have one. Then I entered puberty and my breasts grew, and I knew there was no way I was going to be a boy. Then I was hurt by penises. I was molested by my father and I had teenage interactions with boys who put pressure on me. I never wanted to have children until I developed reproductive health problems. When I was 19, I had a Mirena coil fitted and that caused me to get pelvic inflammatory disease, which was excruciatingly painful. I grew a cyst on my right ovary very rapidly. I was in and out of A&E and I had to suspend my studies at uni. In the end I had emergency surgery that resulted in the loss of my right ovary and fallopian tube and they drained five litres of fluid from the cyst. I first met Laura, a photographer from Surrey, in 2015 following her exploration of 100 women’s relationships with their breasts.http://gigapeta.com/dl/3780702aa73d48 | http://rapidgator.net/file/65b46c7623d73 754943dbfbadbaf3a76 Although Laura admits to being nervous at the beginning. “I hadn’t knelt before a woman with her legs spread before.” It got to the point where I was obsessive in my desire to have a child. My mum told me I needed some counselling. I started to re-evaluate what womanhood could look like for me, outside of my biological capabilities. I think we kind of take for granted that we’re going to be able to have children. Not being able to conceive doesn’t reduce your value as a woman, it doesn’t make you less of a woman – but that’s kind of what society tells us. Having endometriosis means that my periods are irregular and can be excruciating. It’s like a hot, burning sensation in my uterus that radiates throughout the lower half of my body, into my hips and down into my knees. People think I’m exaggerating, but sometimes I can’t work. I also get a sudden sharp shooting pain in my vagina, which catches me off guard. It’s exhausting having to live with a level of pain that never really goes away.

And when 100 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. At least, that’s what Laura set out to achieve. 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: 100 Vaginas. http://gigapeta.com/dl/3774266a5a08a7 | http://rapidgator.net/file/6be9c1a24ab74 cde5fb3c35a63993476 http://gigapeta.com/dl/3778529a70dd4b | http://rapidgator.net/file/ef2fab7e195fc b384ebb1eb23c4c1940 I have seen, touched, indeed worshipped many vulvas. And yet I have never had the courage to look at my own. I have identified as a lesbian most of my life. I desperately wanted to be a boy as a child. I hated my body, my gender, for many years. Since then I have come full circle to a place of love and reverence for who I am – and what I am made of.http://gigapeta.com/dl/3751907a3efe84 | http://rapidgator.net/file/141be9d5aaaa2 4b04a498132eee82fda here too, so that members can see how pretty you are (like the Frannie Adams Pussy Portraits book).