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How on earth can you explain what it all looks
like without any models?
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Friday, March 24, 1944
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"...I don't think boys are
as complicated as girls. You can easily see what boys look like in
photographs or pictures of male nudes, but with women it's different.
In women, the genitals, or whatever they're called, are hidden between
their legs. Peter has probably never seen a girl up close. To tell
you the truth, neither have I. Boys are a lot easier. How on earth
would I go about describing a girl's parts? I can tell from what he
said that he doesn't know exactly how it all fits together. He was
talking about the "Muttermund,"* but that's on the inside,
where you can't see it. Everything's pretty well arranged in us women.
Until I was eleven or twelve, I didn't realize there was a second set
of labia on the inside, since you couldn't see them. What's even funnier
is that I thought urine came out of the clitoris. I asked Mother one
time what that little bump was, and she said she didn't know. She can
really play dumb when she wants to!
But to get back to the subject. How on earth can you explain what it
all looks like without any models? Shall I try anyway? Okay, here goes!
When you're standing up, all you see from the front is hair. Between
your legs there are two soft, cushiony things, also covered with hair,
which press together when you're standing, so you can't see what's inside.
They separate when you sit down, and they're very red and quite fleshy
on the inside. In the upper part, between the outer labia, there's a
fold of skin that, on second thought, looks like kind of a blister. That's
the clitoris. Then come the inner labia, which are also pressed together
in a kind of a crease. When they open up, you can see a fleshy little
mound, no bigger than the top of my thumb. The upper part has a couple
of small holes in it, which is where the urine comes out. The lower part
looks as if it were just skin, and yet that's where the vagina is. You
can barely find it, because the folds of skin hide the opening. The hole's
so small I can hardly imagine how a man could get in there, much less
how a baby could come out. It's hard enough trying to get your index
finger inside. That's all there is, and yet it plays such an important
role!"
* Cervix
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–excerpted from The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
Edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler. See bibliography.
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