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Viva la vulva shattered all these norms. While others
ran functional product ads we created a celebratory full-length music video. While
others avoided vulvas we showed 450 of them. While others showed experts in
white coats we showed a woman in beautiful vulva dress. While others cast twenty-something
models we heroed women of all ages and body types. While
others reinforced taboos, we confronted them head on with messy oysters and
signing cameltoes. While others were silent about vulvas, our cast members
opened up about them. While everyone else
was dancing around the issue, we made it sing. For centuries vulvas have been
censored, objectified, and erased altogether in the name of ‘decency’. Meanwhile the recent explosion of porn has
pressurised young women to believe their genitals should look a certain way:
the myth of the ‘perfect’ vulva. Viva La Vulva is a love song to a part of us that doesn’t get
enough love. |
As a result, almost half of
women feel embarrassed by their vulva, 7/10 don’t know what normal looks
like, many demand a ‘designer vagina’ (labiaplasty is the fastest growing
cosmetic surgery in the world), or avoid cervical cancer tests out of
embarrassment. The intimate care category has
historically been so clinical and euphemistic that it enforced these taboos -
many women buy and use the products in shame, like a dirty secret. |