On social networks, “vulva maps” are shared by many Internet users. Their goal: to make women better known.
- To better understand the female gender, “vulva maps” are relayed on social networks.
- In France, one out of four 15-year-old girls does not know that she has a clitoris, and 83% of schoolgirls in 3rd and 4th grade are unaware of its role.
Hood, clitoris, vestibule, labia minora and labia majora… Recently, “vulva maps” circulating on social networks, with the aim of making the female sex, still obscure for many men and women, better known.
Vulva mapping
the vulva mapping or the “vulva mapping”, is basically an English-speaking concept, which consists of naming each part of the female sex via schematic illustrations, and in particular allowing it to be distinguished from the vagina.
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According to a report by the High Council for Equality submitted in June 2016, one in four 15-year-old girls does not know that she has a clitoris, and 83% of schoolgirls in 3rd and 4th grade are unaware of its role. In France, more than 1 in 3 women have never observed their intimacy, according to a recent survey by Terpan Prévention. 35% of respondents said they had never seen their clitoris, and another third only once or twice. The reasons for this taboo? “This is not beautiful”, “I didn’t feel the need to watch it.” or “I did not dare”explain the women of the survey.
Lack of teaching of female anatomy
Concerning masturbation, 24% of respondents admit that their first experience took place only around 18 years and over. They are today 45% to have experienced their first masturbation between 13 and 14 years old, 17% between 15 and 16 years old, and 14% between 16 and 17 years old.
For the pollsters, these figures are explained by a lack of teaching of female anatomy. “The representation that we have of the female sex is mainly through porn”, recalls Kamal Yahiaoui, president of Terpan Prevention. “A kind of clitoral obscurantism still reigns today. While the male body and its anatomy benefit from an assumed exposure over time, the female body and its intimacy remain hidden”, concludes Kamal Yahiaoui.
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