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The Little Book of Vaginas: Everything You Need to Know
Vajayjay. Lady bits. Notorious V.A.G.
It’s time we talked about vaginas. This pocket-sized book is here to debunk the myths and help you gain a better understanding of everything you were never taught,
The amazing things the vagina does from puberty to menopauseAdvice on the most common complaints and how best to alleviate themThe vagina in pop culture – from the page to the stageThis succinct and celebratory guide separates fact from fiction and will change the way you think and talk about your wonder down under.
It’s time we talked about vaginas. This pocket-sized book is here to debunk the myths and help you gain a better understanding of everything you were never taught,
The amazing things the vagina does from puberty to menopauseAdvice on the most common complaints and how best to alleviate themThe vagina in pop culture – from the page to the stageThis succinct and celebratory guide separates fact from fiction and will change the way you think and talk about your wonder down under.
123 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 11, 2021
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September 25, 2022
I am disappointed by the lack of visual aid in this audiobook.
January 27, 2022
After over 40+ years on this earth, I saw this book and thought, what don't I know about the vagina? It will be good to see what they didn't teach in school. I am not sure if this book should be classified as non-fiction or fiction. It certainly is providing some interesting facts, even though there is zero annotation for the quotes, statistics, and some of the claims. The book started up really well and I liked how it tried to dispel the myth of some words. Unfortunately, I couldn't really find good sources to validate the author's claims.
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January 31, 2023
4 Stars
This is a BRILLIANT little book for anyone that wants to get to know a bit more about the vagina! It is obviously not a very detailed book but it has enough detail for young people with vaginas to learn more - I wish I had read this book when I was 16. It is small but packs a punch and so I think every young person should read it no matter what their gender.
The book is split up into 6 main sections which are all very interesting and hold some decent information. As a 34 year old woman with severe endometriosis, I didn't learn anything from this book apart from a few interesting statistics but that is okay as I am hardly the target audience for this book.
It us split up into:
1) The History of Vaginas
2) Anatomy of the Vagina
3) Periods
4) Sex
5) Vaginas in Culture
6) Love your Vagina
All the sections were well done and in a light enough tone that teenagers would want to read on.
I do think that more information should have been included about illnesses such as endometriosis, PCOS, vulvodynia, interstitial cystitis and fibroids. A few were touched upon but I think they needed a bit more information as they were quite vague.
Overall, a very good start to gynae education and young girls should definitely read this. However for those already with general knowledge about the Vagina and gynae issues, other books would be much better.
Please note that I was gifted this book in exchange for an honest review.
This is a BRILLIANT little book for anyone that wants to get to know a bit more about the vagina! It is obviously not a very detailed book but it has enough detail for young people with vaginas to learn more - I wish I had read this book when I was 16. It is small but packs a punch and so I think every young person should read it no matter what their gender.
The book is split up into 6 main sections which are all very interesting and hold some decent information. As a 34 year old woman with severe endometriosis, I didn't learn anything from this book apart from a few interesting statistics but that is okay as I am hardly the target audience for this book.
It us split up into:
1) The History of Vaginas
2) Anatomy of the Vagina
3) Periods
4) Sex
5) Vaginas in Culture
6) Love your Vagina
All the sections were well done and in a light enough tone that teenagers would want to read on.
I do think that more information should have been included about illnesses such as endometriosis, PCOS, vulvodynia, interstitial cystitis and fibroids. A few were touched upon but I think they needed a bit more information as they were quite vague.
Overall, a very good start to gynae education and young girls should definitely read this. However for those already with general knowledge about the Vagina and gynae issues, other books would be much better.
Please note that I was gifted this book in exchange for an honest review.
July 14, 2025
The Little Book of Vaginas – Everything You Need To Know by Anna Lou Walker can make you do this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/u...
8 out of 10
This is a book that should or must be read by women, for it provides ‘everything you need to know’, but seeing that it is only 144 pages long – would make one wonder if it really has all about it, with hindsight, it has things I do not really need to know – it could be helpful for others…this reader does wish he had had this in his hands decades ago, when he was a teenager and knew nothing about this, and many, actually most other subjects…
Therefore many, if not most men would be well advised to read this (perhaps better, still, there might be quite a few other works on the subject that could be more entertaining and subtle, imaginative and more rewarding) and find some of what they want to know about the women they want to live with…
Some passages could be said to be of use for those who have a vagina, in that they are technical, refer to the means to deal with menstruation – it could be pointed out that there is an environmentally friendly means, using a cup inside the vagina, which ca be reused, thereby avoiding the incredible waste that the tampons represent after months and years, we are talking truckloads of mostly non degradable refuse – the perils associated with removing the pubic hairs, which seem to be the norm everywhere now…
Putting up a note on a Little Book of Vaginas as a male reader could be controversial and if I were to have more of an audience, it could backfire, with vicious comments and cancel calls from women, men and other, as it is, the two or three people that go beyond the first line are hardly expected to protest, unless I bring in…Trump – the couple of negative comments I have had (out of maybe twenty in all) recently related to the fact that I hate the sob and there is a reference to him when monsters are mentioned.
In this case, the orange clown is infamous for the Hollywood tapes, made public before his catastrophic election of 2016, wherein he says something like ‘when you are famous, they let you do anything, you can grab them by the pussy’ and for his despicable behavior in regards to women – and all in general, except the cronies, lackeys and those who would submit to his will unconditionally and stay loyal, even after they are thrown to the wolves – making the eejit a symbol of the male chauvinist pig
Where the Little book of Vaginas is very good if you ask me would be in the chapters that look into the history, the origin of the name which is actually insulting, for it comes from Latin and it meant ‘a sheath or scabbard", a scabbard into which one might slide and sheath a sword…The "sword" in the case of the anatomic vagina was the penis’ confirming the secondary role that women had played throughout history.
Their vital, private parts were defined just repository for the male organ…we learn from the book that the vagina – or was it the clitoris – has twice as many sensitive nerves as the penis and it is a magical organ, albeit I do not agree with the author that it is the most important and perhaps the call to ‘love it’ is somewhat exaggerated and theatrical, understandable in light of the fact that in past centuries and millennia in fact, the treatment that vaginas received was abominable, just like women had been kept low…
Some roman senator said that ‘woman is a temple built on a sewer’ and others were even more disgusted and disgusting in their view of women and vaginas in particular…the issue of cunnilingus (and pleasure, orgasm and masturbation involving vaginas) is brought up and the infamy that men involved in the act would face, for it had been considered for most of history, in most parts of the world that this is debasing and men that do that are not virile, impotent, and these and other attitudes show a fear of vagina (sometimes portrayed as having teeth, powers that are supernatural) that persist to this day in parts of the world…
The film where Ryan Gosling performs cunnilingus is mentioned, together with the much lesser known French marvelous motion picture Portrait of a Lady on Fire, wherein lesbian love is depicted and celebrated – incidentally, searches for lesbian interaction on porn sites are very high on the list, The Netherlands have very high percentages for searches with that word, only in centuries past, in that country and others, women that loved other women have been tortured and executed, so were gay men for that matter.
Quite a few of the details in the book could repel a common reader, it did so for the undersigned, in that the color of discharge and the other details connected with diseases and fluids seem too clinical, but hey, this is because I do not have a vagina – this notion could be challenged in the future, just as gender is fluid now, we have non binary, Two Spirits, quiver gender, we find that ‘gender is the big lie of civilization’, transformations have taken place and we find more about that from the Co-Winner of The 2019 Booker Prize Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/06/g... - and thereby I am not worried about its health.
This would have been such a blessing in my teenage years, when I knew nothing about female body, pleasure, urges, and alas, this was true for long, long years – some details are new now, such as discharges are normal, and vary from woman to woman, menstruation does not attract sharks, in spite of what people can deduct from the classic Spielberg film Jaws- http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/06/n... - indeed, I still feel that sharks could be looking for a prey that is losing blood, if by natural causes or accident, for they have that excellent sense that tells them when there is ‘blood in the water’ – and the knowledge provided by this Little Book of Vaginas by Anna Lou Walker would have been such a game changer, only hey, we lived in the communist regime that I helped change in 1989, when I took to the streets and helped overturn the vile tyrant Ceausescu, as you can read in this Newsweek article covering the Romanian Revolution:
http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
8 out of 10
This is a book that should or must be read by women, for it provides ‘everything you need to know’, but seeing that it is only 144 pages long – would make one wonder if it really has all about it, with hindsight, it has things I do not really need to know – it could be helpful for others…this reader does wish he had had this in his hands decades ago, when he was a teenager and knew nothing about this, and many, actually most other subjects…
Therefore many, if not most men would be well advised to read this (perhaps better, still, there might be quite a few other works on the subject that could be more entertaining and subtle, imaginative and more rewarding) and find some of what they want to know about the women they want to live with…
Some passages could be said to be of use for those who have a vagina, in that they are technical, refer to the means to deal with menstruation – it could be pointed out that there is an environmentally friendly means, using a cup inside the vagina, which ca be reused, thereby avoiding the incredible waste that the tampons represent after months and years, we are talking truckloads of mostly non degradable refuse – the perils associated with removing the pubic hairs, which seem to be the norm everywhere now…
Putting up a note on a Little Book of Vaginas as a male reader could be controversial and if I were to have more of an audience, it could backfire, with vicious comments and cancel calls from women, men and other, as it is, the two or three people that go beyond the first line are hardly expected to protest, unless I bring in…Trump – the couple of negative comments I have had (out of maybe twenty in all) recently related to the fact that I hate the sob and there is a reference to him when monsters are mentioned.
In this case, the orange clown is infamous for the Hollywood tapes, made public before his catastrophic election of 2016, wherein he says something like ‘when you are famous, they let you do anything, you can grab them by the pussy’ and for his despicable behavior in regards to women – and all in general, except the cronies, lackeys and those who would submit to his will unconditionally and stay loyal, even after they are thrown to the wolves – making the eejit a symbol of the male chauvinist pig
Where the Little book of Vaginas is very good if you ask me would be in the chapters that look into the history, the origin of the name which is actually insulting, for it comes from Latin and it meant ‘a sheath or scabbard", a scabbard into which one might slide and sheath a sword…The "sword" in the case of the anatomic vagina was the penis’ confirming the secondary role that women had played throughout history.
Their vital, private parts were defined just repository for the male organ…we learn from the book that the vagina – or was it the clitoris – has twice as many sensitive nerves as the penis and it is a magical organ, albeit I do not agree with the author that it is the most important and perhaps the call to ‘love it’ is somewhat exaggerated and theatrical, understandable in light of the fact that in past centuries and millennia in fact, the treatment that vaginas received was abominable, just like women had been kept low…
Some roman senator said that ‘woman is a temple built on a sewer’ and others were even more disgusted and disgusting in their view of women and vaginas in particular…the issue of cunnilingus (and pleasure, orgasm and masturbation involving vaginas) is brought up and the infamy that men involved in the act would face, for it had been considered for most of history, in most parts of the world that this is debasing and men that do that are not virile, impotent, and these and other attitudes show a fear of vagina (sometimes portrayed as having teeth, powers that are supernatural) that persist to this day in parts of the world…
The film where Ryan Gosling performs cunnilingus is mentioned, together with the much lesser known French marvelous motion picture Portrait of a Lady on Fire, wherein lesbian love is depicted and celebrated – incidentally, searches for lesbian interaction on porn sites are very high on the list, The Netherlands have very high percentages for searches with that word, only in centuries past, in that country and others, women that loved other women have been tortured and executed, so were gay men for that matter.
Quite a few of the details in the book could repel a common reader, it did so for the undersigned, in that the color of discharge and the other details connected with diseases and fluids seem too clinical, but hey, this is because I do not have a vagina – this notion could be challenged in the future, just as gender is fluid now, we have non binary, Two Spirits, quiver gender, we find that ‘gender is the big lie of civilization’, transformations have taken place and we find more about that from the Co-Winner of The 2019 Booker Prize Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/06/g... - and thereby I am not worried about its health.
This would have been such a blessing in my teenage years, when I knew nothing about female body, pleasure, urges, and alas, this was true for long, long years – some details are new now, such as discharges are normal, and vary from woman to woman, menstruation does not attract sharks, in spite of what people can deduct from the classic Spielberg film Jaws- http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/06/n... - indeed, I still feel that sharks could be looking for a prey that is losing blood, if by natural causes or accident, for they have that excellent sense that tells them when there is ‘blood in the water’ – and the knowledge provided by this Little Book of Vaginas by Anna Lou Walker would have been such a game changer, only hey, we lived in the communist regime that I helped change in 1989, when I took to the streets and helped overturn the vile tyrant Ceausescu, as you can read in this Newsweek article covering the Romanian Revolution:
http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
September 16, 2024
This is an amazing book for anyone that wants to learn more about their, or their partner’s body. There’s a lot of information, including some brilliant history crammed inside this tiny book. I have definitely learned a few things. I would have really benefited reading this as a young teen.
It has opened my eyes to how the contraceptive pill really helped lead to so much female empowerment. It’s so easy to bash it, and although i don't agree with it now, and it would've been amazing to have found something more natural and sustainable - it really has led to a lot of good.
Thankfully, every day we are learning more and more about women and our bodies, becoming even more empowered and having even more freedom and choice. The future for us is so bright. 🌸🙏🏼💌
5⭐️
It has opened my eyes to how the contraceptive pill really helped lead to so much female empowerment. It’s so easy to bash it, and although i don't agree with it now, and it would've been amazing to have found something more natural and sustainable - it really has led to a lot of good.
Thankfully, every day we are learning more and more about women and our bodies, becoming even more empowered and having even more freedom and choice. The future for us is so bright. 🌸🙏🏼💌
5⭐️
July 26, 2022
The debate on Roe v Wade lead to what Men know about the Vagina. So I got informed. Learned as they say direct from the source.
A very interesting topic and even though over 50% of the population have them we are always a little behind the curve. Anna Lou Walker makes it interesting and it flashes by way too fast. What can I say highly recommended.
A very interesting topic and even though over 50% of the population have them we are always a little behind the curve. Anna Lou Walker makes it interesting and it flashes by way too fast. What can I say highly recommended.
September 29, 2022
This felt somewhere between a panfletaria and a preaching lecture. I don't think the information (interesting as it was) was presented in a compelling manner and the preaching tone felt forced and put of place. At least to was short.
October 7, 2024
I picked up this short read via audiobook when I needed something to get me through the rest of the work day, and this was definitely an interesting little read!
I feel like this book would be best suited for those who are either in their teens and looking for sex-ed, or older folks who perhaps weren't able to get sex-ed when they were teenagers. There are a lot of basics in here that I remember learning in school (I was very lucky to have comprehensive sex-ed in my Northern English school) as well as some extras that I've learnt just living life.
The book is split into six sections:
1) The History of Vaginas
2) Anatomy of the Vagina
3) Periods
4) Sex
5) Vaginas in Culture
6) Love your Vagina
The writing is never serious, it's all in a playful tone so that younger readers aren't as likely to get bored. Some of the quotes from this are iconic and it could never be called dull.
This book, truthfully, wasn't for me. And I'm kind of grateful for that? Because this is fantastic for those who need to learn more about the female anatomy and aren't able to get that information from a trusted adult or education. I'm glad this is available for folks to read, and that someone cares about making sex-ed interesting and accessible.
I feel like this book would be best suited for those who are either in their teens and looking for sex-ed, or older folks who perhaps weren't able to get sex-ed when they were teenagers. There are a lot of basics in here that I remember learning in school (I was very lucky to have comprehensive sex-ed in my Northern English school) as well as some extras that I've learnt just living life.
The book is split into six sections:
1) The History of Vaginas
2) Anatomy of the Vagina
3) Periods
4) Sex
5) Vaginas in Culture
6) Love your Vagina
The writing is never serious, it's all in a playful tone so that younger readers aren't as likely to get bored. Some of the quotes from this are iconic and it could never be called dull.
This book, truthfully, wasn't for me. And I'm kind of grateful for that? Because this is fantastic for those who need to learn more about the female anatomy and aren't able to get that information from a trusted adult or education. I'm glad this is available for folks to read, and that someone cares about making sex-ed interesting and accessible.
September 4, 2022
This book does contains what you need to know and it is interesting - unfortunately there is nothing new and it’s all pretty factual and mostly biology based
October 7, 2024
Everybody should read this book!
December 12, 2024
The human cunt is a spectacular organ !
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