NSTworld “I found out there was a penis museum and no vagina equivalent, so I made it.”
In the heart of Camden, a tourist centre and hub of alternative culture in the north of the British capital, the sign for the “Vagina Museum” on an old barn door attracts a few curious glances.
Far from being a cabinet of curiosities, the little museum intends to be instructive, with its first goal to expose myths around the vagina. A survey by a British campaign organisation last year revealed that a quarter of women avoid smear tests for cervical cancer – half because they were uncomfortable with the procedure.
The same study also found almost half of women were unaware that they should not wash inside their vagina, to avoid a risk of infection.One section is dedicated to hygiene, with commercial products sold as “virginity soaps” or creams claiming to tighten the vagina. Less glamorous is the underwear stained with vaginal discharge, framed on the wall in an attempt to show what is normal.
Schechter said she expects to attract more visitors than she might have a few years ago, before the #MeToo movement put a new spotlight on women’s issues and discrimination.
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