By Carly Stern For Dailymail. These days, young single women know all too well the feelings of horror and disgust that come from opening up a text from a potential date and finding an unsolicited picture of his genitals. Far from being met with the same shock and revulsion that many women express in similar situations however, the Los Angeles resident was surprised to find that every single one of the men who responded wanted to meet her, with several returning gross and often hilarious replies. Pretty pics: Kerry Quinn sent a vagina picture to 40 men on the dating app Bumble to test their responses. The results: The Los Angeles resident was surprised that 37 of the men had positive reactions and wanted to meet, while three didn't answer.
2. Mind your lighting.
What happened:
Across the course of a year, Laura took photos of the vulvas for her book Womanhood: The Bare Reality, and spoke to each person about what their vulva means to them. Some of the women involved have also been featured in a film for Channel 4 called Vaginas. Then she examined masculinity by photographing penises for Manhood. And after that, Laura considered the project complete. But reading about Female Genital Mutilation, the number of women speaking surgery on their vulvas and the language around how we refer to female body parts made Laura reconsider. The vagina is internal, leading from the cervix to the vulva. Laura told Metro. Each time, it hit me over the head and kidnapped me and each time I was surprised that I did it. I felt very tender, proud and protected.
1. Don't worry that it's not "pretty enough."
As the female gaze comes to the fore, artists are beginning to examine and explore the possibilities of what exists, what it is to be a woman looking at the world outside of her self. For American artist Dani Lessnau , the gaze opened the door into uncharted realms in search of the things that a camera can capture that the human eye might otherwise miss. Each photograph is made with an exposure lasting between a minute and two and a half minutes, an extremely long time for both Lessnau and her subjects all of which gave consent to hold still in order to create the photograph. After recovering from a protracted illness during her late teens and early 20s, in , Lessnau began to use photography as a form of healing and a way to get in touch with her body. Looking at the ways in which vulnerability can be empowering, both for herself and her subjects, her work explores the female body as a vessel for creation, literally, while simultaneously examining the extraordinary space that exists between us when we are alone, together, and naked. Here, Lessnau speaks with us about the discoveries she has made along the way, about herself, her body, and the power of photography to say the things that cannot be said. Dani Lessnau: We are just beginning to scratch the surface of the possibilities of perception there because I feel we "gaze" with our entire bodies, not just our eyes. Our gaze is as individual as the sensations of our body.
Dick pics are a dime a dozen unsolicited or otherwise. You can't throw an iPhone without hitting one. More rare, and therefore more awesome, is the illusive vagina pic. They are less common in part because knowing how to take a vagina picture can be a tough skill to mater, but also because of the way folks are socialized to be ashamed of their vaginas, says Lola Jean , sex educator and mental health professional. The way it smells, tastes, looks, or the state of pubic hair. Here's the thing: Your V is amazing , and totally worthy of being shown off — that is, if you so desire. But if you decide you want to take that special selfie, you probably want it to look amazing, which means you're going to want to know your angles. I'm a firm believer that there is no wrong way to have a vagina, but there may be wrong ways to take a vagina picture.
