A question...

[red-spot.livejournal.com]

Where is my cervix?
I know its at the end of my vagina, but all the charts I see show the vagina as a straight tube, and I just don't buy it. Please, help me find it!!!

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[palegothic.livejournal.com]

I looked this up and got this picture (hopefully it shows up for a while)



The vagina is not a straight tube. It varies with each individual woman, but essencially that is what it looks like.

[red-spot.livejournal.com]

thank you, but that's the type of drawing I was talking about that doesn't help me. I need like a side-view instead of frontal. Or a more graphic depiction that shows how a vagina moves and how the cervix is placed, if that's the right wording.
But thank you for the effort, really. Thanks very much.

[c4bl3fl4m3.livejournal.com]

Some cervixes are tipped up. Some are tipped down. If you like, you can put your fingers inside of you and feel around for a smooth, round thing (you'll feel the difference in it from your vaginal walls).

If you can get your hands on a speculum and a mirror and a flashlight, you can put the speculum in (use some lubricant on it, or get yourself wet first), shine the flashlight inside, and use the mirror to let yourself see it.

[red-spot.livejournal.com]

Will I know the difference when I feel it? Isn't really, really far back? What if I can't touch it?

Cervix talk

[c4bl3fl4m3.livejournal.com]

You'll know the difference... it's smooth and slippery... the rest of your vagina (well, at least the rest of my vagina) is kinda bumpy.

It is pretty far back, but not as far as you think.

If you can't touch it, try getting into a different position. Try tipping your pelvis up and down. Try really shoving your fingers or thumb in there (don't be shy... you most likely won't hurt yourself... if it hurts, you're doing something wrong. Try arousing yourself and/or using lubricant)... shoving your thumb in and grabbing onto your butt with your fingers and using it to push your thumb in further is a great technique (at least that's what I use). Oh, and I have really short fingers, so if I can do it, you can too.

Hmm... I'm going to go do this myself right now to give you helpful tips...

If I prop my legs up, shove my thumb in with my fingers grabbing onto my butt, I can feel the top of it by pushing my thumb up and back. It feels more dense than the surrounding area. If you push your thumb down, you'll feel the vaginal wall that's shared with your rectum. If you feel something hard on the other side of that wall, that's feces. The cervix feels denser, like the feces do. And, honestly, another difference in my cervix from the surrounding area is that 1.) it sticks out and 2.) it feels round. It's like "vagina, vagina, vagina [bump into something]... oh, what's that' it's sticking out in my way, and is rounded... must be my cervix!"

Remember... your cervix shifts positions... if you try a bunch one day and don't find it, try again another day... it might be easier to locate.

Like, some days I can feel the whole thing. Today it's sticking out so I can only feel the side of it.

Any other women have any other advice?

[kwokj.livejournal.com]

This is an amusing study paper (quite short) that I came across some time ago. The researchers wanted to check out some widely held beliefs about female arousal and investigate the feasibility of further studies in anotomy and sex using and MRI machine.

The MRI images are kind of fuzzy, but I thought you might be interested in the layout of various organs in the sectional view as opposed to the front view depicted in the drawings posted by the first commenter.

Just so we're clear, these are anatomical depictions of people having sex.

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/319/7225/1596

[probabilistic.livejournal.com]

Oh, hahaha, I've seen this before!! This is the paper that talks about how the penile tissue extends into the abdomen, and so during sex the entire penis takes on a "boomerang shape." That cracked me up!

[red-spot.livejournal.com]

thanks. I can't really make out some of the pics, but I keep looking and it makes more and more sense.