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• n  external parts of the female genitalia

• Another hypothesis is that the configuration is meant to resemble a giant vulva, as a means of tribute to an ancient fertility god.
• This is probably too wishy-washy a point for both First Amendment absolutists and people who leap to the barricades at the sight of a hairless vulva, but I'll offer it anyway: the .
• These lingamswhich actually look no more raunchy than rounded bumpsare surrounded by square outlines that represent the vulva, as per Hindu tradition.

News & Articles

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• Scant data on seizure drugs for women's genital pain
  By Kerry Grens NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although doctors sometimes prescribe anti-seizure drugs to treat chronic pain in the vulva, just a handful of low-quality studies have examined the drugs' effects, according to a new review. Based on these studies, "it's very difficult to make definitive statements on efficacy," said Dr. Raphael Leo, the study's author from the State University of New ...
  June 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Marlon Brando in Life Style Extra
  Brando writes: "I'm feeling like a very large turd on a very thin stick. I'm holed up in bed and taking everything from sled dog urine to powdered East Indian vulva - maybe won't work tomorrow if I feel the same. I really feel bad for not showing up...
• Gloria Steinem in New York Times
  I'm hoping that the use of this new word is part of the objection to only saying vagina since it doesn't include all of women's genitalia, for instance the clitoris, in the way that vulva does,Ms. Steinem said.
• Alex Comfort in guardian.co.uk
  The pad of the male big toe applied to the clitoris or the vulva generally is a magnificent erotic instrument,wrote Comfort, words that appear unchanged in the new edition.