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No, the Vagina Doesn't 'Heal Up and Close' from Disuse

Posted by JeanneSager

I know what it's like to feel like your vagina is broken. It's called natural childbirth people.  But I don't think even women who feel like they tore from stem to stern during the big push would refer to their va-ja-jay as an open wound.

Come to think of it, after childbirth, that place isn't open for much business for awhile. Period. Still, the Yahoo Answers idiot question of the week award goes to the poster who asked "If a vagina isn't used can it heal up and close?"

Short answer: No.

Long answer: Not only do our lady parts tend to lose their elasticity as the years pass (and children pass through them), but they are never to be referred to as a hole in need of healing. A hole in need of TLC sometimes, yes. But that answer is not for Babble version of the Nerve Media family (if you catch my drift). 

My favorite "answer" was from the husband who says they can. His source? His wife. Dude, there might be a reason for that. My second favorite answer: "you didn't use it as a baby, and it didn't close." She's right, but let me tell you, that just put my mother heart a pitter pattering, knowing my daughter's cha cha is safe from being "naturally mended" as she retains her pristine childhood.

I'd ask if people are really this stupid, but unfortunately, I already know the answer. Yahoo didn't have to tell me. 

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Comments

 

HDCS said:

The only stupid people in this particular instance are the ones who fell for the troll. Trolls like this are the one thing that is keeping people on Yahoo! answers because it gets them links like this. They claim to be trying to crack down on it but I have to say an awful lot of them have been getting through.

December 5, 2008 12:12 PM
 

Cole Gamble said:

Where do you find this stuff?

December 5, 2008 12:21 PM
 

maeby said:

i wish my thighs could be photoshopped to perfection like that

December 5, 2008 1:23 PM
 

Evie said:

I think mine does get a little dusty though. ; )

December 5, 2008 8:59 PM
 

Alice said:

Actually in veyr young girls, toddlers usually, a hormone imbalance, that is veyr common does make the tissue of the labia suture together.  The pediatrician has to open it back up and you apply a hormone cream to the area to prevnt it closing back up.  I know three little girls this had happened to.  So yes, they can close up but not in grown women.

December 7, 2008 12:07 AM
 

Tobi said:

YOUR vagina might not "heal" and close up, just like most of them.  But some folks have vaginas that do.  As Alice points out, intersex children are in a different boat, and even sometimes have vaginoplasty performed on them.  Non-life-saving surgery performed on infants is something that most intersex activists virulently oppose.  Nonetheless, it's been quite common.  As with any vaginoplasty, you have to dilate regularly or else it will heal and close up.  (something I've heard is a somewhat horrible experience for infants).

And of course, if a woman has vaginoplasty in her adult life, like many trans women do, then she'll be in the same boat as an adult.  Perhaps that guy's wife is in this circumstance, and perhaps he assumes it's true for all women because she hasn't told him about it.

December 10, 2008 3:03 PM
 

TTA said:

Actually, there are a number of conditions that could cause the opening to close up, or become overly tight.

Medical stents exist for a reason.

December 10, 2008 3:30 PM

About JeanneSager

Jeanne Sager is a writer who lives in upstate New York with her husband, daughter, a dog and too many cats. She refuses to believe motherhood comes with pumpkin appliqued sweaters, and she';s not ready to apologize for having only one child. She writes about raising her kid in her own hometown and the mom stuff she's not embarrassed to own at her blog, Inside Out (http://jeannesager.blogspot.com), she's contributing editor of Grand Magazine, and she's a regular essayist here on Babble

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