This week, Planned Parenthood launched its new YouTube series "How to Take Care of Your Pussy," a show narrated by comedian Sasheer Zamata that uses actual felines to talk about reproductive anatomy and care down there. The first episode specifically looked at two parts of the female reproductive anatomy that people often confuse: the vagina and the vulva. Contrary to popular belief, these two terms are not interchangeable and instead refer to two different parts of the human body. The vulva, as the video states using diagrams and cute cats , includes the outer labia, inner labia, clitoris, urethral opening, and vaginal opening. Meanwhile, the vagina is the "soft, stretchy tube inside your body, between your vulva and cervix. Planned Parenthood also points out that there's no such thing as a "typical" vulva; every person's vulva may come in different shapes, sizes, and colors, and it's each person's choice what to do with the hair on the vulva.
Your Vulva Is Not Your Vagina — Here's the Difference
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