The Vagina Blog

The Vulva Gallery is an educational platform centered around illustrated vulva portraits and personal stories, and a wonderful, supportive and positive community – celebrating the vulva in all its diversity all over the world. Hilde has a background in psychology and was attending a sexuality course and was really struck by the number of people having plastic surgery on their vulvas. I felt like in order to be better distributed, I needed to create a book that shows diversity, that has over 650 different illustrations based on real vulvas and over 140 real stories from people I’ve portrayed over the years. We need to continue putting this diversity out there and helping people realize that they are normal.

I went through ups and downs with sex, using birth control, having 6 children and learning about my body through learning about Fertility Awareness Method. Learning about the fertility awareness method really helped me get to know my body and feel comfortable learning more about what I like sexually as well. I had to make an intentional effort to use my husband’s love language of physical touch because that isn’t my love language. It’s so important to find out what your partner’s love language is and express what yours is as well.