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3 myths about your vagina you need to unlearn

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Far too many women know far too little about their own vaginas. Who is to blame? Well, almost everyone.

From well-meaning parents intent on keeping their children ignorant about their bodies in order to “protect” them, to schools only teaching a very limited amount of the truth, to churches telling youngsters that sex, and therefore genitalia, is something dirty and only reserved for the wedded. 

Even medical science isn’t completely faultless here.

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