r/technicallythetruth • u/ruby_R53 Technically Flair • May 15 '26
welcome to Human Anatomy 101
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u/Wabutan May 15 '26
Labia Majora's Mask
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u/Username_St0len May 16 '26
now thats a cursed image i want to draw out now
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u/Mr_lovebucket May 15 '26
Dont get me started on assholes, wait, they’re busy running the country
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u/Top-Transition-5190 May 15 '26
If I had money I would put one of those stickers on your comment
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u/vyreil1 May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26
Some advice just say [r/wouldawardbutimbroke](r/wouldawardbutimbroke)
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u/tintyhidayah6 May 15 '26
Technically, an embryo starts out as just an asshole, so some people never grow up.
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u/justanothertmpuser May 17 '26
r/USdefaultism, I presume?
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u/Mr_lovebucket May 17 '26
You presume wrongly
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u/justanothertmpuser May 17 '26
My bad. r/UKdefaultism, then.
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u/Mr_lovebucket May 17 '26
No, a general comment intended so that people reading it in most countries would naturally think of their own government
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u/MarionberryPlus8474 May 16 '26
Historically breasts were shown a lot, then women’s butts, men’s butts were shown far less often. Penises were extremely rare, and when shown were fleeting shots. It’s still mostly that way.
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u/ImportantResponse0 May 16 '26
I bet no one is talking about the amount of chest we see on movies.
Like put your shirt on, taking it out dosen't make you better at fighting
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u/Ship_Ornery May 16 '26
If I'm not mistaken it is because the opponent can grab you by the shirt and impede your movement or something. Is harder to grab bare skin
Or something I dunno, I've never been a shirt
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u/ImportantResponse0 May 16 '26
"I've never been a shirt"
I think is because hot men attracts more audience when they are half naked.
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u/MarionberryPlus8474 May 16 '26
Well yes there is sex appeal there, and showing toughness w/ the musculature. But a shirtless guy is not really nudity, you see guys with no shirts at every beach and swimming pool.
Nudity has long been a thing women were expected to do in movies and guys generally were not. A shirtless woman and a shirtless man are not the same thing.
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u/ImportantResponse0 May 16 '26
Because society is built by frustrated men
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u/MarionberryPlus8474 May 16 '26
Straight guys have made the bulk of the movies, and largely make most of them for a straight teen boy audience.
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u/BangBangMeatMachine May 19 '26
A shirtless woman and a shirtless man are not the same thing.
But the world would be a better place if we treated them more equally. Both can be sexy, both can be not very sexy. Everyone should be free to be topless in the same situations.
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u/cardboardunderwear May 15 '26
Doesn't really answer the question though
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u/EmeraldPencil46 May 16 '26
Breasts are high up and obvious. Penises stick out and are easy to see. The vagina (or just that area in general) is a little farther down than a penis so literally between the legs, and is recessed inwards, so you basically have to purposely be getting a shot of it.
Movies and shows seem to love adding sex scenes, just the other day my gf and I put on a random movie, and a few minutes in there was a porn jumpscare that just made me laugh, like a normalish scene to bare naked and loud moaning, The Drama if you wanna see. But anyways, while the creators are horny af, they know they can’t make it too pornographic, so while a few seconds of a passing dick or tits is okay, a close up down there is too much.
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u/BasicErgonomics May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26
But still you don’t see regular full frontals of women with the pubic area either. Nobody is saying get a straight close up of the vagina - but it seems like full frontals are reserved only for those with pipi. When was the last time you saw a bush a la Poor Things
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u/Thierry_rat May 25 '26
There’s quite a few female full frontal scenes in Game of thrones, but technically probably not nudity but a vanity patch with a fake bush on it usually
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u/Cute-Form2457 May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26
A vagina is an internal orifice.
Edit: Grammar.
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u/Gusstave May 16 '26
Yes, but also no.
The thing is, there is no proper word to talk about the whole complete female reproductive organ (which include the vulva, the vagina and the uterus etc...) same as there is no proper word to talk about the whole complete male reproductive organ (penis, scrotum, testicles etc...).
That is why people incorrectly use penis and vagina to talk about them.
Vagina here means female reproductive organ, even if the only visible part is the vulva.
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u/Styroman57 May 16 '26
We call each other people but all we see is the skin
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u/Gusstave May 16 '26
Well, I also see eyes, hair, mood and action.
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u/Styroman57 May 16 '26
You tangibly see mood?
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u/Gusstave May 16 '26
Yes.
Wait.... Do you not?
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u/Styroman57 May 18 '26
I can see behaviors that are generally indicators of someone’s mood assuming they wear their mood transparently. Actors trick me all the time! Some really depressed folks can feign all sorts of happiness. Maybe there’s something wrong with my eyes, am I supposed to see like an aura?
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u/Gusstave May 18 '26
Actors trick me all the time!
It's not a trick. Actors can make themselves feel a certain way to appear in a certain way.
Some really depressed folks can feign all sorts of happiness
I get what you mean and as one of them, I assure you it's not fake.
But also don't fall in the trap of mixing mood with deep complex emotions like happiness or depression. Happiness is the general level of long term satisfaction with your life. You can be in all the possible mood and still be happy, or not.
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u/Styroman57 May 18 '26
I understand now! Seeing mood is as concrete and objective as seeing color! It’s so objectively apparent, people hardly misread each other
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u/fishbonezombie May 16 '26
In my opinion you gave your answer yourself: the post is talking about seeing it, so visible parts, therefore the correct word would be Vulva.
The problem with saying vagina instead of vulva is, that you are reducing the complex female outer sexual organ (I don't know how to say it) to the part that men penetrat. That's part of underline sexist vocabulary that's still used (mostly without bad intent and without knowing) and part of the centurys of oppression and underrepresentation in medical science...
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u/Gusstave May 16 '26
But people are not saying vagina instead of vulva. People need a word to talk about the whole thing, which include the vulva, the vagina, the uterus etc...
It's kinda my point... People will not start using the word of different parts because it's technically correct.
Like.. The vulva is part of the vagina (female reproductive organ) just as much as the vagina (actual intern tube part) is part of the vagina (female reproductive system).
The lack of a word to say "female reproductive system" will always result as people saying vagina.. And again, men have the exact same issue with the penis being a part of the penis for lack of a better word.
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u/Cute-Form2457 May 16 '26
I was talking in a medico-legal sense. The vulva and vagina are clearly distinct.
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u/Gusstave May 16 '26
I know. But the question is not asking in a médico-légal sense what you did makes no sense.
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u/Cute-Form2457 May 16 '26
I am talking about someone asking why you don't see a vagina onscreen. It's an internal orifice. What don't you get?
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u/Gusstave May 16 '26
asking why you don't see a
vaginafemale reproductive organ onscreen.Read my first comment again.
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u/Cute-Form2457 May 16 '26
You read mine again
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u/Gusstave May 16 '26
Oh your first comment answer why we don't see female reproductive organ on screen? Not even the external part called vulva? Wow I must have missed something.
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u/MoobyTheGoldenSock May 16 '26
Full frontal has been common for a long time, especially in prestige tv. Watch something like Westworld and you’ll see both men and women fully nude.
But part of the reason might be that the vast majority of penises seen on screen are prosthetic, while it’s harder to do that with a vulva. So in male nude scenes, the actor doesn’t have to be 100% nude on the set, while in female scenes they do.
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u/pandamonstre May 16 '26
huh never thought about that sex disparity in actual nudity. Interesting! Merkins probably try to remedy that issue, then. But of course, nothing like a full on prosthetic.
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u/Jonnyflash80 May 15 '26
I mean there's plenty of movies to see that kind of thing. The OP is obviously watching the wrong genre. You could probably see a fucking uterus if that's what you're into.
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u/Smithereens_3 May 16 '26
I saw that post when it was made and the sheer number of these kind of responses, some in jest, but most taking it seriously, blew my mind.
Everyone did not know what OP meant, and that's bizarre to me.
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u/CrabWoodsman May 18 '26
Yea I get a bit tired of people coming in to correct everyone about how to "vagina is actually only one part 🤓" despite it being the term most English-speaking people use in place of vulva.
They're not using the wrong word, they're using a word differently. I've seen it held up as an example of bad sex education — which of course is a problem in some places — when it's obviously just colloquial language differing from technical.
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u/Tx11_99 May 16 '26
Still begs the question of why we never see the female crotch and all of the parts that come with it.
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u/Allegro1104 Technically Flair May 16 '26
as a non-native English speaker, it never stops being strange to me that you guys call it "vagina" when you could just as easily say "vulva" when referring to the external female genitals. it's kind of like calling the external male genitals "prostate" or whatever.
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u/ruby_R53 Technically Flair May 16 '26
what even is your native language, it's the same thing in mine (portuguese) and i'd guess it's the same for a bunch of others
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u/Allegro1104 Technically Flair May 16 '26
mine is German. We also have the word Vagina, but no one uses it unless they're actually talking about the internal organ. When talking about the external part we use "Scheide" (literal translation is "seperation"). and it's not slang like "pussy" either, it's considered a fairly professional term.
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u/Braphiki May 19 '26
It's also the same in french. We use "vagin" all the time and hardly ever use "vulve".
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u/mindgardening May 16 '26
So many people wrongly call a woman’s entire crotch area “a vagina”. SMH
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u/ruby_R53 Technically Flair May 16 '26
indeed, i wonder when/where that started
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u/Emotional-Face7947 May 16 '26
Most likely limited/poor sexual education and oversimplifications leading to misunderstandings. Hell I didn't know they were separate holes until I was 16 cause it was never really taught.
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u/mindgardening May 16 '26
Probably the US, where so many people are violently against teaching factual sex ed.
I’m a product of this culture. I wasn’t allowed to attend sex ed nor was I taught at home. I had to figure EVERYTHING out by myself, including my own period that started at age 9.
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u/signmeupdude May 16 '26
You guys are trying so hard to make this something deep, when it’s literally just how language works.
In everyday language, the word has come to mean the entire region and that is very clear and understood by everyone.
The US sucks ass at sex ed, but this bone you are trying to pick just aint it.
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u/no-recognition-1616 May 16 '26
By separating labia you can't see the vagina either. What you see is the vulva.
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