40 Times People Revealed What Ridiculously Hilarious Misconceptions They Have About Women’s Bodies And It Got Immortalized Online
Turns out, it's not just the mysterious, elusive G-spot men have a hard time locating on a woman's body.
Some of them are so oblivious, so misinformed about the female reproductive system, you can't help but wonder what they had been up to during their biology classes. Maybe reading the memoirs of an 80-year-old grumpy alien virgin? I don't know.
But there's even a subreddit dedicated to their ignorance. It's called r/BadWomensAnatomy. This online community, which already has 460,000 members, collects pictures of some of the dumbest things men have said about the clitoris, vagina, and pretty much every other body part you can think of.
Here are the most popular posts from the subreddit.
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"Just how little men know about women's bodies is shocking," general practitioner, medical researcher, and founder of PrimeHealth Clinical Research, Iris Gorfinkel, M.D., told Bored Panda. "A YouGov study in the UK conducted in 2019 asked British men to label a diagram of female genitalia. The results were actually abysmal. Well over half of the men surveyed could not label the vagina or labia, and the majority could not point out where it is that urine comes out."
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"There may be a perception from some men that they can get away with not being able to name visible parts of a woman's body, and still understand enough to know what has to go where. But that sets the goalposts pretty low," Gorfinkel said. "Things were made a whole lot better with just a bit more know-how whatever the starting point may be, there's always more that can be learned."
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I am a woman and I personally can't stand the look of men with ripped abs, it's a complete turn off but that is MY personal taste. Doesn't mean everyone feels the same.
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To make that a top priority, Gorfinkel gives the following reasons: "First on the list is, of course, sex because sexual characteristics define what genders are, and knowing more about a woman's body is the bedrock to great sex. [For example,] the vulva is on the outside and that's the part that touches clothing. The vulva actually has four parts. The mons (that's where the triangle of hair grows), the hairy outer labia and the hairless inner labia, and finally the clitoris. The vagina is simply a tube. It's a tube that connects the vulva to the opening of the uterus, the cervix, and the cervix can be felt actually when fingers are deep inside the vagina. And what is the clitoris? Its sole function is sexual pleasure. There is actually no such thing as a G spot and vaginal orgasms for the most part do not exist. The clitoris has twice the number of nerve endings that a penis does, and it is critical to the way most women will experience an orgasm."
Guess I Should Be Slathering My Whole Body In Foundation Then
Girls Can't Orgasm Apparently
Gorfinkel also pointed out that another reason to know a woman's body is for a man to better understand his own risks of sexually transmitted infections. To understand this, the doctor offered to look at the most common STI, the human papillomavirus or HPV. "Most sexually active women will actually contract this at some point in their lifetime, and nearly all of them are not going to have symptoms from it. But men can get this HPV and it can cause men to develop cancer, including cancers of the penis, cancers of the anus and rectum, mouth, tongue, lips, esophageal and laryngeal cancer. Basically anywhere where there's a mucosa, a wet surface, it can result in HPV."
"There are other STDs, such as chlamydia, gonorrhea, herpes simplex, HIV, syphilis, hepatitis, and it's important for a person to see a doctor for regular checkups because so many of the diseases have no symptoms, at least half the time."
And the third reason why men should know more about a woman's body is reproduction.
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Truth be told, the same study we mentioned at the beginning of this text found that some women have problems navigating their body too. For example, 43% of them could not label the labia.
The only part of the female genitalia which the majority of both genders got right was the clitoris, identified correctly by two-thirds of men and women (71% of women, 69% of men).
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How Does This Guy Handle Wiping His Own Ass?
Abortions
"As well as asking Britons to identify body parts, we also surveyed women about their understanding of their own bodies," the researchers wrote. "We discovered a worrying lack of knowledge among women about how their genitalia works."
For instance, the vagina contains a large amount of bacteria, but the good kind which keeps the area healthy. Washing inside the vagina - even just with water - damages the natural balance of bacteria and is highly likely to lead to infections.
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What's A Uterus?
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However, nearly half of the women (46%) they surveyed did not know that you shouldn't wash the inside of your vagina. A third (33%) thought it should be washed on a daily basis, and one in six (14%) said with water and soap, and one in five (19%) with water only. One in fifty (2%) think it should be washed with water after sex, rising to 7% of those aged from 18 to 24.
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The Hole Closes Up
Menstrual Pain Is A Myth!
Nicole Kidman Is A Man
Tampons=condoms
"Wait, You Still Get Periods?"
I Just.... I Just Can't
On A Post About A Funny Tampon Story
Yeeterus. Some Of The Guys In The Comments Were Very Concerned
In Reference To A Post I Made About My Female Funkopops Always Falling Over Because Of Their Tiny Bodies
You Get A Period! And You Get A Period!
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I was holding the hand of my wife when she gave birth to our two children, an experience I would recommend to all men
Bad anatomy lesson
Ink Squids
She Just Got Pregnant By Herself, Like The Virgin Mary
Just Push It All Out
That's Not How This Works
...uh No
Pack It Up Ladies
No More Bottled Water Ladies, You'll Thank Me Later
Literal Woman's Anatomy?
This reminds me of when someone gender swapped the Avengers poster to make a point... avengers-6...bc0537.jpg
University Level Forensic Medical Textbook In Pakistan
even i know that the half of that stuff i know is wrong. im sorry but man my gender is known for being stupid.
Load More Replies...This really pisses me off. Imagine how many women that are shamed because of crap like this.
It should. Every socitey in the world should get rid of the idea of "virginity" and any causality with the "hymen"
Load More Replies...Please take notice: This is NOT A UNIVERSITY TEXTBOOK and NOT FROM PAKISTAN. From Reddit: „ The title is misleading. This book is not a medical textbook used in Universities, but a private study guide. The book is not Pakistani, but the Head of the Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Dayanand Medical College and Hospital in India.“
Well, that makes it soooo much better. *she says sarcastically*
Load More Replies...Still stuck on the "roomy" portion. What does that even mean? What dimensions are we looking at? I'm eager to learn.
It reads like the description of a new car: "Heated seats, Daytime Running Lights, Vagina is Roomy"
Load More Replies...Such a load of codswollop. Just another way to control womens bodies.
This reads like it came from the Middle Ages! Did it? Hey, all you non-virgins out there, are your breasts "pendulous"?
Oh, they started hanging down round my knees the first time I had a bonk! My Labia minora is also so insensitive - I get nothing but criticisms all day.
Load More Replies...Wait, what’d the f**k does the breasts have to do with being a virgin. I didn’t understand most of the rest of the chart but this I know is completely wrong.
It's cut off so that you can't read it all but it mentions pregnancy.
Load More Replies...Exactly the way you think they did. It's called the "two finger test" . It is super messed up
Load More Replies...What kind of misogynistic, sexist and stupid crap is this!
It is not so. Additionally what do breasts have to do with virginity?
This is what happens when girls are married off as children - basic normal secondary sex characteristics are not all present yet, and the "experts" therefore deem the lack of these traits as "virginal".
I was a kid and broke mine falling. It's fragile, all sorts of things break it.
A friend broke hers horseback riding at the age of eight. She only found out because she started spotting and her mom took her to the doctor.
Load More Replies...I shall take care never to fall ill in Pakistan, as it sounds like their doctors don't have a clue. On second thought, I'll not go to Pakistan at all as long as they treat women as chattel.
Wow. They’re not obsessed whatsoever with things that are none of their frickin’ business.
Yikes™ and also i checked for my hymen the instant i learned about it (so right around when my first period happened) and never did see anything that looked correct.
Do you suppose that is one reason why foreign doctors are driving Ubers in North America and Europe?
Horrifying! The poor female's that have died with tarnished reputations! Specially if raped and murdered. I'm just angry!
Given the level at which this misinformation is being propagated, I would have thought this one needed to be voted higher.
4 bedroom/2 bath... I'm confused, are we still talking about humans or...
Load More Replies...The only one that is right on this is #1 on the side titled True Virgin. Ugh, this is ridiculous. WTH is a "roomy" vagina?!
This is a f****n disgrace, what in the name of all that is rational?
I wonder how much of that textbook has real biology versus total complete nonsense
I think everything that can be said about the content has already been said... What university-level textbook uses Comic Sans for chapter headings?!
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First I was cringy, then I was laughing.. hard, and eventually I get pissed off at the lack of education.
I totally agree, but people still can't differentiate between they're/their/there, so how will they fully grasp uterus/vagina/urethra?
Load More Replies...This is why sex ed should be mandatory andnot conected to any religion
As a guy, I'm sorry that women have to live with these ignorant, misogynistic, gross, egotistic morons. I'd just not want to be associated with men at all, thank you.
This is inadequate education, and not in any way related to gender. I have female relatives who would absolutely believe half this stuff because they weren't taught anything about their own anatomy other than "it's dirty".
Load More Replies...What is going on with your education systems? So much of this can be sorted using education.
I thought it was scary enough when I read about a woman that worked for a Senator who thought women could have their periods at will and that, women who had theirs, were looking for excuses to get out of work and be lazy. The guy was married..WITH KIDS!! You think at some point his wife would have at least explained it to him.
Wasn't there also some politician who said that women couldn't get pregnant from rape, because women's bodies would shut down the uterus if it senses that it's rape or something?
Load More Replies...I'm getting an eye roll migraine again. The post (which is probably too far down to hit many people's radar, since there's only so much idiocy a person can take in one sitting) describing the fact that any discussion about our bodies is pornographic, or otherwise sexualised leading to much misinformation is so sad but true. To address a few others: there are 3 holes; periods are gross, yes, but also natural and painful and we dont have any control over them (short of certain birth control options); vaginas are elastic, no amount of penetration will make them "looser"; women are human beings.
I am just gobsmacked by most of these. Like seriously how some of these people manage to be in relationships is beyond me.
Honestly, I doubt that any of these people have relationships.
Load More Replies...Funny story for this thread. A couple months back, my parents had a raccoon in their attic. Obviously, the called pest control. So the guy gets there and he starts talking about racoons, how it's probably female, etc. So then he gets the nerve to compare MY MOTHER'S hormones to the racoons. "You know how you want to feel nice and warm, and safe-" there was more racooney specific phrases in there. I am still suprised that my mother did not fire him on the spot. 😂
Two problems -- (1) lack of sex-ed in schools and the social taboo nature of talking about this stuff. You can't blame boys/men for being ignorant if they aren't taught AND society shuns even talking about it. -- (2) Arrogance. You CAN blame men for being arrogant and assuming that they are experts on subjects that they know nothing about. A proper response to any of these scenarios is "I though ___, but you are a woman, so you know better than me when it comes to that stuff. Guess I was wrong", -- or instead of saying "What's the problem? Why don't you just do ___", they should ask "Is it possible for you to ___ or is that not how things work?"
You can blame them for being ignorant. If my male partner or my father or brother gets a "misterious condition " every month I would ask them to explain it to me or do some research. Its pure selfishness.
Load More Replies...Sad thing is, I bet most of these people did go through public school sex ed. It's one semester and they go through it quickly and not thoroughly at all. What little they might have learned, they pissed out just like a woman pisses out her period... Duh
I had some huge gaps in my sexual education, but never this much misinformation. I guess it's because I didn't grow up with easy web access to total bullshit.
Now I'm gonna have to go and have a look at r/badwomensanatomy for more infuriated laughs
I laughed but alll in all this post just gave me a headache.God, we still have SUCH aa long way to go to an enlightende and civilized society.
We're discussing the reproductive system in anatomy and physiology tomorrow. I'm ready to hear some fun questions from the guys
There is a difference between ignorance and insanity. Like, I get some people may not understand biology, but the way they get to that conclusion baffles me. Some of the stuff, like the PE teacher shows how they put sexism and misogyny as truths that define the female body.
PLEASE teach your children anatomy and physiology for both male and female bodies. We aren't that different until reproduction is involved, and obviously, the misconceptions about that are epic....
Sadly, there is no more 'Survival of the Fittest' . If there was.....many less F*cktards....😁
Load More Replies...Well now I'm ticked off! I'll be reading animal comics if anyone needs me
To all the females dissing males sorry but not all of us are this f*****g retarded
Most of us do know that. Many of use live with them in some form or other (I mean husband/father etc). Sex ex needs to be compulsory and no excuses. The harm that some of this dumb crap can cause.
Load More Replies...Are you suggesting these men are just stupid and don't know any better? Because it's become pretty obvious that as you scroll down, people just assume they know more about women than actual women. If you want to excuse this behavior then go ahead, but just know that both types of people are rude, and clearly don't care enough to educate themselves.
Load More Replies...First I was cringy, then I was laughing.. hard, and eventually I get pissed off at the lack of education.
I totally agree, but people still can't differentiate between they're/their/there, so how will they fully grasp uterus/vagina/urethra?
Load More Replies...This is why sex ed should be mandatory andnot conected to any religion
As a guy, I'm sorry that women have to live with these ignorant, misogynistic, gross, egotistic morons. I'd just not want to be associated with men at all, thank you.
This is inadequate education, and not in any way related to gender. I have female relatives who would absolutely believe half this stuff because they weren't taught anything about their own anatomy other than "it's dirty".
Load More Replies...What is going on with your education systems? So much of this can be sorted using education.
I thought it was scary enough when I read about a woman that worked for a Senator who thought women could have their periods at will and that, women who had theirs, were looking for excuses to get out of work and be lazy. The guy was married..WITH KIDS!! You think at some point his wife would have at least explained it to him.
Wasn't there also some politician who said that women couldn't get pregnant from rape, because women's bodies would shut down the uterus if it senses that it's rape or something?
Load More Replies...I'm getting an eye roll migraine again. The post (which is probably too far down to hit many people's radar, since there's only so much idiocy a person can take in one sitting) describing the fact that any discussion about our bodies is pornographic, or otherwise sexualised leading to much misinformation is so sad but true. To address a few others: there are 3 holes; periods are gross, yes, but also natural and painful and we dont have any control over them (short of certain birth control options); vaginas are elastic, no amount of penetration will make them "looser"; women are human beings.
I am just gobsmacked by most of these. Like seriously how some of these people manage to be in relationships is beyond me.
Honestly, I doubt that any of these people have relationships.
Load More Replies...Funny story for this thread. A couple months back, my parents had a raccoon in their attic. Obviously, the called pest control. So the guy gets there and he starts talking about racoons, how it's probably female, etc. So then he gets the nerve to compare MY MOTHER'S hormones to the racoons. "You know how you want to feel nice and warm, and safe-" there was more racooney specific phrases in there. I am still suprised that my mother did not fire him on the spot. 😂
Two problems -- (1) lack of sex-ed in schools and the social taboo nature of talking about this stuff. You can't blame boys/men for being ignorant if they aren't taught AND society shuns even talking about it. -- (2) Arrogance. You CAN blame men for being arrogant and assuming that they are experts on subjects that they know nothing about. A proper response to any of these scenarios is "I though ___, but you are a woman, so you know better than me when it comes to that stuff. Guess I was wrong", -- or instead of saying "What's the problem? Why don't you just do ___", they should ask "Is it possible for you to ___ or is that not how things work?"
You can blame them for being ignorant. If my male partner or my father or brother gets a "misterious condition " every month I would ask them to explain it to me or do some research. Its pure selfishness.
Load More Replies...Sad thing is, I bet most of these people did go through public school sex ed. It's one semester and they go through it quickly and not thoroughly at all. What little they might have learned, they pissed out just like a woman pisses out her period... Duh
I had some huge gaps in my sexual education, but never this much misinformation. I guess it's because I didn't grow up with easy web access to total bullshit.
Now I'm gonna have to go and have a look at r/badwomensanatomy for more infuriated laughs
I laughed but alll in all this post just gave me a headache.God, we still have SUCH aa long way to go to an enlightende and civilized society.
We're discussing the reproductive system in anatomy and physiology tomorrow. I'm ready to hear some fun questions from the guys
There is a difference between ignorance and insanity. Like, I get some people may not understand biology, but the way they get to that conclusion baffles me. Some of the stuff, like the PE teacher shows how they put sexism and misogyny as truths that define the female body.
PLEASE teach your children anatomy and physiology for both male and female bodies. We aren't that different until reproduction is involved, and obviously, the misconceptions about that are epic....
Sadly, there is no more 'Survival of the Fittest' . If there was.....many less F*cktards....😁
Load More Replies...Well now I'm ticked off! I'll be reading animal comics if anyone needs me
To all the females dissing males sorry but not all of us are this f*****g retarded
Most of us do know that. Many of use live with them in some form or other (I mean husband/father etc). Sex ex needs to be compulsory and no excuses. The harm that some of this dumb crap can cause.
Load More Replies...Are you suggesting these men are just stupid and don't know any better? Because it's become pretty obvious that as you scroll down, people just assume they know more about women than actual women. If you want to excuse this behavior then go ahead, but just know that both types of people are rude, and clearly don't care enough to educate themselves.
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