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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 5d

If you'd like to take a bit of time appreciating Wegener's work which was *not* advertising douches, here's a ton of paintings and drawings she did of her wife masto.ai/@vagina_muse...

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 5d

A beautifully-illustrated circa 1920s ad drawn by the gifted and iconic Gerda Wegener. But before you get this framed or tattooed on yourself, we regret to inform you it's advertising a soap for vaginal douching.

Illustration of two cherubs with tumbled, curly hair. They are standing over a large bowl at waist height. The angel on the left scatters in flakes from an art deco tin labelled Gyraldose. The angel on the right tips water from a Grecian-style jug into the bowl.

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 6d

Now, we know whenever we post about animal facts, a lot of you wish that this worked for humans, too. So we'll leave you with this: humans tried a process where you gave birth while "asleep". It was actually pretty horrifying. masto.ai/@vagina_muse...

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OLD THREAD CROSSPOST Childbirth fads are frequently associated with influencers and seen as a distinctly 21st century thing. Let us tell you about an early 20th century birth fad: the twilight sleep,...

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 6d

The newly-formed bear family start emerging in spring, when the female bear wakes up, having slept through most of its pregnancy, birth, and a lot of lactation. The bear will have lost a lot of body weight in sustaining itself and its young. No wonder mama bears are so grumpy.

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 6d

For a female bear, implantation occurs once the bear is hibernating. Bear cubs are born about eight weeks after implantation. The female bear is still hibernating at this point. The litter of bear cubs suckle, and the female bear continues sleeping.

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 6d

This phenomenon is called delayed implantation, or embryonic diapause. Bears aren't the only mammals who can pause a pregnancy - it's been observed in around 130 species.

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 6d

This doesn't happen in bears. Once the fertilised egg becomes a blastocyst, all division stops. It doesn't implant. And this ball of cells just kind of floats around in the uterus until it's convenient for the bear to continue its pregnancy.

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 6d

After the fertilised egg has divided a few times, it makes its way into the uterus. In most mammals, this ball of cells keeps on dividing and implants. Eventually, a placenta forms and provides everything the embryo, and later foetus, needs.

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 6d

So do bears have lengthy pregnancies lasting seven months? Here's where it gets a little bit unusual...

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 6d

Usually, at some point in the mating season, one or more bear eggs will get fertilised, and begin the process of cell division. So far, so very normal for pregnancy. But here's the thing: brown bears don't give birth until late January.

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 6d

This oestrus period lasts about two weeks, and during this time a busy female bear will mate with up to eight males.

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 6d

Brown bears like Chunk mate in early summer, usually between May and July. A female brown bear will enter oestrus ("heat") roughly every four years, and pee everywhere with special oestrus scent to tell the males that she's DTF.

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 6d

Big congratulations to Chunk for taking the crown as this year's #FatBearWeek winner! Today feels like as good a day as any to tell you all about a little trick that bears have to ensure pregnancy takes place during OPTIMAL FATNESS.

A very fat bear standing in a river. He is brown and furry, with a broken jaw which makes his tongue stick out.

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 7d

This #BlackHistoryMonth we've teamed up with UCL's Sarah Parker Redmond Centre to bring you a series of events exploring reproductive justice. Join us at the Vagina Museum or at UCL www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/events/event...

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What's on at the Vagina Museum: our programme includes comedy nights, bingo, pub quiz, curator talks, director talks, feminism, art history, science.

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 8d

What's next in Anarcha's Gallery? Get ready for Before the Blood, an exhibition created with Nisaba, the migrant menstrual justice charity. Before the Blood will be displayed starting 8th October...

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 8d

*sigh* Bluesky is Blueskying again. Here's that link again, this time visible to everyone. Trans people's experiences are not adult content, mods. www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/communitygal...

A post from the Vagina Museum, labelled as "adult content": The last day to view Trans Ephemera is 5th October. This community-created exhibition explores diversity, medicalisation and experiences of oppression through the medium of things that are normally thrown away. The exhibition is free to visit - plan yours now!

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 8d

The last day to view Trans Ephemera is 5th October. This community-created exhibition explores diversity, medicalisation and experiences of oppression through the medium of things that are normally thrown away. The exhibition is free to visit - plan yours now! www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/communitygal...

Community Gallery — Vagina Museum

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 12d

But anyway, we digress. Given average lengths of pregnancy, if it's your birthday today, it's statistically very likely that your parents had a very merry festive period. Happy birthday!

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 12d

And even if an egg is fertilised, it may or may not implant. If it does, there's no clear, obvious physical signs in everyone that it happens.

So overall, it's just more straightforward to count from first day of last period.

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 12d

The thing is, it's very hard to tell exactly what's going on inside the human body at any given point. Sure, you can probably remember the date you had sex. But that doesn't mean it'll be the same date as the sperm reaches the egg and they fuse - that can take days.

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 12d

Gestational age is calculated from the first date of your last period. Ovulation, and therefore having something to fertilise takes place approximately two weeks after that. So why is pregnancy generally counted at two weeks *before* fertilisation?

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 12d

That's because the average pregnancy length of 40 weeks includes two weeks where you're not actually pregnant at all.

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 12d

Now, we cannot say for certain that if it's your birthday today, you're the result of a Christmas Day shag. It's likely you might in fact be the result of a New Year kiss that became full-body.

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 12d

A very happy birthday to you! Yes, you. 26th September is the most popular birthday in the UK, as well as the USA and New Zealand.

Take a look at a calendar and count backwards by 39 weeks to find out why...

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 13d

TONIGHT! Eat Pussy Like A Champ. Join Luna Matatas for a class and conversation on all things cunnilingus. www.outsavvy.com/event/29124/...

EAT PUSSY LIKE A CHAMP Tickets - - OutSavvy

Eat like a champ. Going down is a skill, and we can always get more techniques to upgrade our skills. Do you want more confidence in pleasuring your partner(s) orally? Do you want to learn techniques...

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