Jessica Wynn

We should be as comfortable talking about our vaginas as we are our lower backs.

If you don't know the language of your own body, it makes it harder to advocate for yourself with doctors, in sex ed, in relationships.

No, it can be frustrating how it's used.

But can you confidently describe the difference between the vulva, the clitoris, the cervix and the vagina?

Yeah, you've done your homework.

A lot of people haven't, and most people can't tell the difference, including a lot of women.

Technically, the vagina is the muscular canal inside the body.

Everything external, the clitoris, the labia, the urethra, the parts you can see, that's the vulva.

So using vagina as a catch-all term, it's like calling your entire face your tongue.

And that's just a failure in our education.

It's not really anybody's fault.

You have to take the time to learn all of these things.

But women's anatomy is more complex.

So you've got a penis and testicles and yes, you have a bunch of little, you know, there's other parts, but... It's less complicated, I feel like, generally.

It's less complicated.

And we've got ovaries, uterus, vagina, cervix, clitoris, labia, vulva, because we're designed to gestate life.

And yet boys get clearer language.

Penis balls, their gift, their power.

You never heard the gift.

That's a pretty common one.