Vaginas: size and variation

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Vaginas: size and variation
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Tue, 07-06-2004 - 4:53pm
I'm starting this conversation after reading humpdaddy's poll below about "how much penis is too much?" It's interesting, because it does vary. The popular official answer that experts give about women's anatomy is that vaginas are pretty much created equal and vary in size very little. They'll demonstrate that a vagina can stretch tremendously as in childbirth and then shrink again.

But, if you ask a man that has had a few lovers, he KNOWS that women vary in size and capacity as much as men's penises vary in size...and we all know that men do vary in size quite a bit. Quoting humpdaddy: "In my experience vaginas come in different depths just as penises come in different lengths."

I know this from talking to other women, too. I have a friend who told me (embarrassed) that if a penis isn't huge, she almost can't even feel it, and the only penises that satisfy her are enormous. (She had two vaginal births.) I'm the opposite. Although I'm 5'6" and not small-boned (more like average in overall size), I'm very tight and small down there. (I've had one c-section birth so no baby has passed through.) Men have exclaimed about the tightness several times in my sexual experience. My hubby, most especially. I never knew this about myself (or ever would have thought it) until former boyfriends said it. The first time we made love, he looked amazed and wide-eyed and said, "You are as tight as an 18 year old!" He still comments on it to this day. His ex's vagina was loose/bigger.

So, I've wondered for years...does childbirth sometimes, or maybe often, change a woman's vaginal size? Often, breasts sag after nursing, we all know that. What about the other?

I wonder if some young women and/or never-had-babies women sometimes have bigger vaginal canals, too?

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Mon, 07-12-2004 - 4:37pm
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This can be related directly to tongue peircing. I know, it sounds totally off topic but I have a point, I promise. LOL When you get your tongue peirced, it is usually done with a 14 or 12 gauged needle. MANY people then stretch out the muscle and put much bigger gauged barbells in, some going to as big a size as a doule zero; which is probably about as round as your finger. *But* if the tongue ring is taken out, within an hour or two, it is closed up to either as small as it was peirced with or it will close up completely. If you (or the person with the peircing) didn't gauge it up at all, it would close up without a second thought within one hour. I imagine the muscles in the vagina work in much of the same way considerng muscle is muscle and everyone knows the tongue is no more than just a muscle itself.

Edited to add: It doesn't matter how long a person has had their tongue peirced either, it will still close up or shrink just as fast.


Edited 7/12/2004 4:39 pm ET ET by sweetbutterfly36

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Mon, 07-12-2004 - 7:10pm
The cervix opens up during labor - that takes on different a different size. And yes, the vagina opens up wider but only because the baby's head is forcing it to. It doesn't change in size or shape until the baby is actually in the vaginal canal. The cervix dilates, not the vagina. It just yields to the pressure of a baby moving down.

If you've been too 'long' for some women, it's not the size of their vagina per se, it's probably that their cervix is situated a bit lower and so you bump it. And the position of the cervix can even change from week to week, during a woman's cycle. I know there are times when DH hits mine and times when he doesn't, even in the same positions, during ovulation.

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