disgustinghuman, I’ve probably Googled and gone through more images of naked ladies than a horny 13-year-old in the past week for my thesis research. I did do a search for more Anna Sophia shots, but found nothing, so I still don’t know what was airbrushed and what wasn’t.
I did acknowledge in my original post that her vulva could look that way naturally as evident in the link to the other photograph. Even if it didn’t, I would never think of a woman’s vulva as “disgusting.” I’m conducting all this research and looking at porn sites in order to show women there’s nothing wrong their god-given genitalia. I’m trying to find out what parts of the vulva are airbrushed out of photos and how often it’s done. That is why I posted the photo of Anna Sophia.
I constantly get messages from girls comparing their own genitalia to nude models and wondering if theirs look normal. As one plastic surgeon states, “Many women bring us Playboy and say that they want to look like this.” It’s like bringing a photo of a celebrity to a hairdresser and saying you want their haircut. If Anna Sophia’s vulva was airbrushed, then it’s no wonder girls are insecure with their own’s appearance and considering female genital cosmetic surgery.
I know I sound very defensive, but this research is basically why I’m attending graduate school to begin with. I’m very passionate when it comes to the way a woman’s vulva is portrayed in adult entertainment and the insecurities it creates. I’m scared of the growing possibility plastic surgeons have in deciding what the normal vulva looks like. The truth is, there is no normal. It’s sad we have to wonder what’s real and what’s Photoshoped on nude models. If magazines and websites continue to brush out labia, clitorises, urethras, etc., then we are starting to create a normal vulva appearance.
For anyone wishing to learn more about the case of the disappearing labia, please read “The ‘Designer Vagina’ and the pathologisation of female genital diversity: Interventions for change” by Virginia Braun and Leonore Tiefer and ”In the Pink” by Todd Spivak. And of course we can’t forget Heather Leach’s documentary The Perfect Vagina.
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