The Vagina Versus The Media In today’s media you hear close to everything you would want to know. From magazines, to the internet, to any channel you turn on when watching television, you can get information on a lot of things. Many people might say the media isn’t conservative enough and throws sex around like it’s nothing. What these people are not looking at is how the media portrays sex. It is important to educate men and women on sexuality to ensure a safe and happy environment. It is agreeable that yes, sex is a very personal thing but that doesn’t mean people shouldn’t be educated on it. In Eve Ensler’s play The Vagina Monologues, many women are interviewed on their vagina’s and their sexuality. One women recounts, “In the workshop we were asked to look at our vaginas with hand mirrors… I must tell you up until this point everything I knew about my vagina was based on hearsay or invention. I had never really…show more content… Ensler has interviewed women of all ages and a certain memory of a girl when she was five was, “My mama tells me in a scary, loud, life threatening voice to stop scratching my coochi snorcher. I become terrified that I’ve scratched it off down there. I do not touch myself again, even in the bath. I am afraid of the water getting in and filling me up so I explode… I still want to touch myself, but I don’t”(Ensler 76). The story then follows the child when a peer punches her between her legs, to when she was jumping on the bed and “impales my coochi snorcher on the bedpost” (Ensler 77). She then begins to tell the story of when she was ten years old and was raped by a father’s friend. The story ends with thirteen-year-old her, she says, “My coochi snorcher is a very bad place, a place of pain, nastiness, punching, invasion, and blood. It’s a site for mishaps. It’s a bad-luck zone. I imagine a freeway between my legs and, girl, I am travelling, going far away from here” (Ensler
