ONE SMALL SEED MAGAZINE Issue #28 Digital 03 | Page 32

‘IT IS TIME
TO DIG
C**T AND
WOMEN
MUST DIG IT
FIRST’.
The evolution of the vagina has brought
us to the point where anything goes!
The last decade has seen gates open,
and with it ladies’ legs too… You want
to create plaster casts of women’s
vulva’s and exhibit them around the
world, sure. You want to walk into a
Paris Museum and display your vagina
whilst sitting under a famous painting,
absolutely. How about full-frontals
of celebrities in Paper Magazine, no
problem. Well not for some. Whether
it’s on par with clickbait or used in
activism art the ‘V’ word continues to
harvest responses of all sorts! Here’s a
back-to-basics question: can you even
say Vagina out loud? All together now:
VAGINA!

There have been many milestones along
the way. Perhaps starting out with Germaine
Greer’s ‘Vagina Revolution’ manifesto
published in the Penthouse Forum Magazine
in 1973. Greer saying that: ‘Skirts must be
lifted, knickers (which women have only
worn for a century) must come off forever.
It is time to dig C**t and women must dig it
first’.
Cosmopolitan Magazine 45 years after
it’s inception in 1965, published the word
‘vagina’ on their cover for the first time
in 2010: ‘Your hoo-ha handbook: Get a
healthy sexy vagina’. Even facebook’s
nudity policies have been relaxed after the
approval of pictures exposing women’s
nipples while breastfeeding in July 2014.
Have the media hijacked the proliferation
of the vagina in their favour to attract your
attention and provoke your ‘click’ to increase
their views? Or are there still genuine activists
out there trying to make a valid point without
jumping on the sensationalism bandwagon?