# Half of Brits don’t know where the vagina is - and it’s not just the men Waldersee, V. (2019) ’Half of Brits don’t know where the vagina is - and it’s not just the men’, Available at: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/health/articles-reports/2019/03/08/half-brits-dont-know-where-vagina-and-its-not-just >[!Abstract] Introduction > A new survey shows that Britons are worryingly uninformed about female genitalia, and that women are almost as unaware as men about what’s going on down below. > Respondents were asked to label the diagram below to the best of their abilities. We accepted misspelled but obviously correct answers, and even euphemistic or descriptive responses when appropriate (e.g. ‘wee hole’ for urethra’ or ‘lips’ for ‘labia’). > Even so, half of Britons could not identify or describe the function of the urethra (58%), labia (47%) or vagina (52%). # Notes - 2019 → researchers gave a short sex ed-style quiz to 2000 adults in the UK - Label the clitoris, labia, vagina, and urethra on an anatomy chart - Answered questions about - when to replace tampons - how to keep a vagina clean - The majority of men (and a large portion of women) failed the test - A third of both women and men did not know what the clitoris was - 59% of men could not accurately label where the vagina is located - 61% of men could not correctly indicate the urethra - 52% of men could not find the labia - Many people did not seem to understand their own bodies - A worrying lack of knowledge among women about how their genitalia works - 45% of women could not identify the the vagina - 55% did not know where the urethra is - 43% could not locate the labia %% ### [[women don’t know their own anatomy]] > - 2019 → researchers gave a short sex ed-style quiz to 2000 adults in the UK ^w2kcg > - Label the clitoris, labia, vagina, and urethra on an anatomy chart > - Answered questions about > - when to replace tampons > - how to keep a vagina clean > - The majority of men (and a large portion of women) failed the test > - A third of both women and men did not know what the clitoris was > - 59% of men could not accurately label where the vagina is located > - 61% of men could not correctly indicate the urethra > - 52% of men could not find the labia > - Many people did not seem to understand their own bodies > - A worrying lack of knowledge among women about how their genitalia works > - 45% of women could not identify the the vagina > - 55% did not know where the urethra is > - 43% could not locate the labia [Survey Results](https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/bxrj4xtd02/YG-Archive-WomensBodiesInternal-070219.pdf)