a space for conversation on vagina-related subjects.

vaginaverite.com is a repository for personal stories. Its mission is to provide a comfortable environment for women to relate their experiences and propose questions to explore. Its purpose is to engender respect and appreciation for our bodies by providing access to each other's experiences.

vaginaverite.com is dedicated to the value of individual experience, celebrating diversity and the beauty of all women.

While vaginaverite.com is for, and about, women, it warmly welcomes men.

This web site grew out of my work on a book of vulva portraits for women. The v-portraits reveal the elusive face of the ordinary vagina in plain view—not that there is such a thing as an ordinary vagina—they are each unique and beautiful.

I have photographed 112 v-portraits for vagina vérité®, the book.

I like to exhibit the v-portraits as often as I can. If you have suggestions on an NYC space, I'd love to hear about it!

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Alexandra Jacoby

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Here's some of what I've been reading, watching and writing lately
[may not have been written lately]:

 my blog: leave the castle

 Yet Another Way to Decorate Your Vagina: Va-Ttooing @ the gloss, JUL 15, 2010

 Should the pill be available over-the-counter? via re:Cycling,the SMCR blog, JUN 25, 2010.

 As If It Weren't Hard Enough (Childbearing and Obesity), via the Fertility Awareness Center blog, JUN 9, 2010.

 QUIZ: Women, Health, and Rights Worldwide @ IWHC, May 28, 2010.

 AngMarTV — July 17, 2009 — from "Vagina Monologues" to "Women need no balls", this lady tells all that's on our minds performed by Mindy Matijasevic

 One Small Question About My Big Butt by Melissa King at Simply Flaw-thentic, MA Y 3, 2010

 Celebrating Our "Down There" Diversity, by Stephanie Schroeder in Curve magazine, MAY 2010 - article available in print only. Being interviewed by Stephanie was fun and further inspired me to actively interrogate life.