ABSTRACT
Our body is our self. Our body is an edifice, our skeleton clothed by muscles, flesh and skin, propelled into motion with every breath we take. The edifice moves—we walk, arms swing, we sit; and the edifice functions. Inside the body there are organs and systems that we know exist but do not see, such as our nervous system with its neural network and our circulatory system with heart and blood vessels. And there are systems which we feed and feel, notably the digestive and urinary, as well as the sexual, once-reproductive system—the terrain of Our Bodies Ourselves. Our bodies and genitals may be in sexual as well as social relationships. Young women have a reproductive apparatus consisting of uterus, cervix, ovaries, vagina, labia and clitoris, protected by a mons pubis and pubic hair. This chapter explores the bodily aspects of the sexual, from pubic hair to genitalia and orgasm.
