I am making a coloring book of female genitalia, with a purpose. (to help women love their bodies)
Here is my story and what motivated me to create this coloring book.
When I was a kid I remember showing another girl my vagina after she had showed me hers. She was confused by it because it was different than her own, I had more stuff there. That was the first time I felt weird about my own vagina. I went to my mother to ask her about my vagina a few years later. Unfortunately, she acted weirded out by my explanation of having longer labia and didn't really talk to me about it at all. My disgust for my anatomy started to grow.
A few years later I dated a guy and we broke up. He stalked me and begged me back. I didn't want him. So he went around spreading rumors about my vagina, and the size of my labia. At this point I had a complete hatred for my body and was embarrassed every time I got undressed around a new person and feared they would run away from my totally normal vagina, because I thought it was a freak.
A few years later another boyfriend told the girl he was cheating on me with that my vagina looked like the moth-man prophecies (what does that even mean?) and she told me this in a nasty myspace email. Boys and their egos, right?
I continued to hate my vagina for many years. Until one day I decided to look at a real vagina gallery online I saw so many different vaginas. And many that were just like mine. Couple that with the information that I learned that a huge percentage of porn stars actually had labiaplasty to alter their vaginas to have that no-lip look every pretends is the norm. (Not that havng no visible lips isn't normal, just every woman being expected to have no visible lips is DEFINITELY not normal because vaginas are god damn unique and every one looks different)
So, there it is, the story of my vagina and the fruition of my vagina book.
And here are some pages from the book which is a work in progress that should be out early-mid next month and contain 40 (diverse) illustrations of female genitalia on single-sided paper.
If you want to keep up to date on the project you can follow my art page:
https://www.facebook.com/LauraLemonsArt/?fref=ts
And you can find more of my art or buy some digital sample pages from the vagina book here:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/lauralemonsart?ref=hdr_shop_menu