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strawberry week?!
We definitely don't menstruate strawberries! This term is used colloquially to refer to menstruation without saying it directly. But why? Menstruation and menstrual blood is the most normal thing in the world. So let's name it as that too. Let's start with menstruation or menstrual period, even periods alone are much better than associating our periods with strawberries. Don't you think so?
M-E-N-S-T-R-U-A-T-I-O-N! Period!
Who menstruates?
Do you know the answer? First of all, it's pretty simple: everyone who has a uterus, a vagina and a vulva menstruates. Your own identity is initially irrelevant. It's not about gender. It's about the sexual organs. However, there are also people who do not menstruate despite having a uterus, vagina and vulva. And the assumption that all women* menstruate is also not true. Not everyone who menstruates are women*. Period!
Inside is VAGINA - outside is VULVA
VULVA refers to everything that is visible from the outside. Specifically, this means: mons pubis, clitoral bead, clitoral hood, large and small vulva lips, urethral exit and vagina entrance. Every VULVA looks a little different! Everyone, absolutely EVERYONE, is normal!
The VAGINA is internal and connects the VULVA to the uterus. The VAGINA is usually depicted with the uterus, but this leads us to refer to the entire organ as the VAGINA , which is categorically incorrect. The sexual organ consists of 3 individual parts:
VULVA - VAGINA - UTERUS !
More than just a..."Scheide"
Do we really want to call it that? This word refers to cultural contexts (many of those that are truly medieval). But since so-called female sexuality was only associated with reproduction, it was reduced to a slot where something could be inserted. But she is so much more than that!
We're also naming it wrong! What is a penis for the so-called male sexual organ is the clirotis for the so-called female sexual organ. This wonderful organ has 8,000 nerve endings!
Down there?!
Down there? Where? This statement also refers to the sexual organs. E.g. What happens down there simply means: What happens in the VULVA. Please let us call them by their real names:
V-U-L-V-A!
Without shame and without taboo and embarrassment!