A serious question

[trixtah]

I've been reading too much stuff about women, young and old, not having the faintest idea of how women's vulvas and labia can vary, and thinking that there is something wrong with them because one of their labia is 5mm longer than the other or suchlike.

So I'm thinking seriously of starting a website where there are galleries of pictures of as many vulvas as I can get. I would like them to be self-submitted, with some demographic information from the submitters (e.g. age, ethnicity, children, surgery, etc). I know that vaginapagina has lots of pics, but their stuff doesn't really show up in Google searches. There is at least one other site with pictures of vulvas, but it seems to be there to drive traffic to porno sites (and has fucking flowers and people spreading their labia apart in a porno-like fashion. If you like it, fine, but I think there is a time and a place).

So, questions:

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Is creating such a site a good idea?

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Yes
4 (80.0%)

No
0 (0.0%)

Maybe
1 (20.0%)

If "yes" or "maybe", how to solicit contributions?

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Feel free to comment further below. Of course, the ironic part is I probably wouldn't want to submit pictures of my own vulva at all - how to ask people to do something I'm personally not comfortable with? While I would not want to do anything with the pictures other than display them for the stated purpose, how to reassure people of that?

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[trixtah]

Yes, Scarleteen is a cool website. As for the links, yes, some of that is what I'm trying to get at. I do think moar pix would be good, especially the ones that don't have stupid objects in them. Still, perhaps what's out there is actually enough if people look (although I never came across those sites before).

Dilemmas, dilemmas.

[ironed_orchid]

I would prefer those sites if the text was more matter of fact than flowery goddess worshippy or art school stream of consciousness.

I'd actually love a site which showcased the varieties of pubic hair as well, and managed to do it without being judgmental about shaved/non-shaved.

One thing someone mentioned, I think on a locked forum, was that vulva insecurities seemed to be connected to the trend of shaving, in that people can see their vulvas, especially their labia major in detail, rather than it all being hidden behind pubes.

[trixtah]

Yes, flowery goddesses is precisely what I want to get away from. And porn. And yes, I was thinking of categories for hair as well - completely unaltered, trimmed, nude. Although that might be too much in terms of obsessive taxonomy. But if I got a run of nude vulvas, I wouldn't add them until I felt there was a balance.