Let me start by saying how much I’ve been enjoying thumbing through Lissa Rankin’s WHAT’S UP DOWN THERE. After all, it’s all about one of my favorite topics. Kind of like an owners manual for your vagina. Haven’t read it cover to cover yet, but so far it’s been funny, candid and full of useful information. However, I did stumble across something that kinda bugged me. Something I want to address.
I don’t fault her for this at all, because this is something I’ve seen again and again in articles written by women talking about labia size. Here’s what she says:
“Seems that all porn stars have neat little labia tightly tucked up between their legs…”
Many smart and well meaning articles I’ve read online even went so far as to claim that porn stars are specifically chosen because they have smaller labia. I see angry women posting to defend their large labia, claiming “I don’t have a porn star pussy!”
Um… I think you better tell that to the ladies on this list:
Nina Hartley
Vanessa Del Rio
Jada Fire
Amber Lynn
Lauren Phoenix
Alexis Texas
Lena Ramon
Eva Angelina
Tori Black
Lexi Belle
That’s right kids. All of the famous porn stars on that list have what is classified in the biz as an “outie.” That means long labia, ladies. And men pay them for the privilege to look at those long labia every single day. Nobody thinks they’re ugly or not good enough or in need of “corrective” surgery. (Well, sure there are plenty of people out there who think long labia are ugly, but there are also tons of people who think small ones are ugly. That’s the glory of the internet. Something for everyone.) Anyway that’s just an off the top of my head list. There are hundreds, if not thousands more. In fact, you can search many adult sites for “outie pussy” and be directed to nothing but photos and movies of chicks with long labia.
What I suspect Rankin, and many of those other well-meaning, long labia loving ladies are talking about when they say “porn” is actually just Playboy magazine. But you see, Playboy airbrushes out any protruding labia. Not because they are ugly, but because they are too racy, too sexy. Playboy is a very mild “girlie” magazine, so heavily stylized that it’s barely considered porn. They want photos that are more suggestive than overtly sexual and so they try to minimize any visible hint of actual girly bits.
My point is this: somehow this teeny tiny “porn star pussy” myth has gotten blown way out of proportion. It’s important for women to love their bodies no matter what shape or size, but it’s also important to really analyze anything that gets people all whipped up. Don’t automatically blame the porn industry. Look at where this really coming from. Need a hint? Who stands to profit from this hysteria over long labia? Because I’ll tell you what, women who feel bad about their labia don’t go out and buy dirty DVDs featuring tiny labia. They go out and pay a plastic surgeon to cut them off.
So don’t spend your money on dangerous, traumatic plastic surgery you don’t need. Spend it on Nina Hartley movies and see just how beautiful and sexy long labia can be.