Aloran Learning About Her Body
by tannim
December 06, 2016

	It was scary talking to a teacher about intimate anatomy.  About female intimate anatomy in particular.  Male anatomy was easy and everywhere.  She didn't care about male genitals.  Aloran didn't even know what a girl's real genitals were supposed to look like.  All she knew was that hers didn't look much like what she'd seen in pictures.

	"Aloran? You can come in now."

	The female voice startle the thirteen year old rabbit.  She'd been looking anywhere around the library but at the door she'd been waiting on and hadn't even seen the other girl hurry quietly out or past.  Others behind her looked equally interested in anything but what they were there for.

	She walked fast enough that she may as well have ran in.  Her little tail flicked and both ears swiveled constantly from nervous excitement.  After an hour of waiting, she'd gotten in to see the sexual education teacher one on one.

	"If you would like to sit, you may sit.  Of course you are also welcome to stand." Mrs. Javil smiled at her. "Nobody will be laughing, giggling, or making jokes while we're here unless you choose to do it yourself." The fairly skinny and not even thirty year old teacher leaned over the desk without a hint of a smile. "Now, what would you like to know?"

	Aloran stood with her back to the door trying to get her mouth to work.  Embarrassment hit the young teen hard seeing the older rabbit sitting there.  She hated needing to ask such a dumb thing she should already have known.  Why couldn't she find any real information in her books and classes? 

	"Take your time.  All the others did." Mrs. Javil adjusted the floor length labcoat she wore. "It's shocking how silly people get when they want to talk about their own bodies, isn't it?"

	"Heh, uh, yeah..." Aloran tapped her foot nervously, looked away, and forced herself to ask. "What is a vagina supposed to look like."

	"A vagina is supposed to look like a muscular tube inside a female's body.  You'll almost never see much of one other than a hole of varying circumference."

	Aloran's embarrassment gave way to confusion. "What?"

	"Exactly what I said.  I suspect what you MEANT to ask, is what is a vulva supposed to look like.  Which is more complicated as there are various parts of one." Mrs. Javil stood up turned off the lights. "Perhaps you'll feel more comfortable asking in the dark so you can't see my face."

	"Maybe?" The darkness really did feel better.  Not seeing her did make it seem less embarrassing. "I mean the vagina, you know, the stuff between your legs."

	"The vagina is internal.  What hangs between your legs is external.  Your visible genitals are collectively referred to as your vulva.  If you would like the easiest and least embarrassing answer, the one that I've found most effective, I can show you a collection of photos or of videos that volunteers have sent in and let you see what what THEY look like to compare to your own.  Perhaps then you'll see what is normal and what is not." The teacher's voice was a lot more soothing in the dark since she didn't seem to be staring while talking. "It's a project I've been working on to teach girls that their genitals are just fine."

	"Fine? I don't think mine are fine.  They look weird down there!"

	"Yes, they do look weird.  You don't see them very often and even when you do, you don't see them from a good angle and you don't know what you are looking at.  I know you've seen a few diagrams in the general sexual education class, but those aren't very detailed."

	"Yeah..."

	There was a flash as a monitor turned on, then a much brighter light lit up the screen from the projector turning on, followed by the faint outline of Mrs. Javil using her computer.  A frame formed on the wall, but didn't show anything but two  options.  One said Pictures while the other said Videos.

	"Which would you prefer to see?  Normal girls your age in pictures or normal girls your age in videos? There are close to five hundred of each." The older rabbit's face looked up. "They have all been made by volunteers wanting to help girls get more comfortable with their bodies.  I have screened them all myself.  There were initially many more.  Apparently some boys decided to try to have a laugh and submit something of their own for the project.  Sadly, there were even more that had to be removed because of girls trying to have a laugh.  It's amazing how many girls don't want others to be able to learn about themselves."

	Aloran smiled grimly in the dark.  She was well aware of how her friends didn't want to talk about it.  Every one had tried to talk her out of going.  It wasn't a surprise that others had made stupid prank pictures or videos.

	"Which is better?"

	"They're both equally effective, just in different ways.  The pictures you get a single view of how they hang normally while the girl stands there.  If that's what you are curious about, that's all you need.  The videos show them with legs closed, then spread, then pulling their labia majora, outer labia, or, if you like, outer lips, open so that you can see inside.  They then tug on their clit hood, then labia minora, or inner lips, to show how far they stretch.  There really is a lot to see down there.  Much more than you would see in most porn, despite that being the first place many girls look for answers."

	"Yeah... heh, there isn't much there in porn." The darkness really was relaxing. "Can I do one for a bit and then move on to the other?"

	"Of course.  I take it you want to try the pictures first?"

	"Uh, yeah, I guess."

	"One more thing.  Looking at other females or being curious about your genitals does not make you a lesbian.  There is nothing sexual about learning about your anatomy or of studying others.  Even if you become aroused, you are not necessarily gay.  Our bodies, especially at your age, become aroused at almost anything.  You will learn whether you are straight or gay when you meet and get to know people.  You won't learn that here.  Understand?" Mrs. Javil handed her a cheap game controller. "Alright.  Press right to advance one picture.  Press left to go back one.  Top right trigger to go right ten, top left to go back ten.  Up zooms in, Down zooms out.  I will stand in the back and let you browse.  If you have any questions, ask."

	The first picture flashed on. Aloran's eyes widened.  It was just what she'd been told it would be, a picture of a girl's groin there on the wall.  Fully bare and not at all like the porn photos she'd seen.

	Soft flaps hung down from the center, uneven and funny looking to her.  There was the girl's clit hood just peaking out above them.  Not like hers, but not not like hers, too.  The next had wider inner labia and a much bigger clitoris with a tiny hood.  The third had smaller both and bigger outer lips.  Vulva after vulva went by as she scrolled through them.  None looked exactly like hers, but they all had the same parts somewhere.

	A few did look like the women in the porn pictures and a few did look like the illustrations in the books, but they were all different.  None of them were what she would have called pretty, but as Mrs. Javil said, she wasn't there to admire them.  They were just there to show her what they looked like.  The variety was amazing as she kept going.

	One girl's genitals caught her eye after a couple hundred.  They were the only set that looked like her own.  The labia minora hung down a few inches rather than a few centimeters.  The girl's clitoris protruded out nearly an inch with a hood that hung down almost as far as her inner labia.  Another girl a few pictures further had similar, too, with one last one near the end.  Only three girls had something like what she had out of however many.

	"You paused on that one a long while, Aloran.  Did you see what you wanted?"

	"Only three looked kind of like mine."

	"And only a few had other features that looked like other students.  Our genitals are all different and there is a lot of variety.  That makes us special in our own ways.  Why should they all look the same? Boys don't all look the same either."

	"They look pretty much the same in every picture I've ever seen!"

	"And if you looked at a similar set of photos of males, you'd see a lot of the same differences you'd seen here.  Length, girth, veins, wrinkles, curves." Mrs. Javil stayed in the shadows, but she sounded sympathetic. "Even without looking, I can tell you there's nothing wrong with your genitals, Aloran.  Don't worry about looks.  Only your future lovers will be concerned with that and if they have a problem with them, they weren't much of a lover."

	Aloran rolled her eyes and was glad of the darkness hiding her flushed face. "Can I see the videos of the three that looked like me?"

	"Of course, if you thought to take note of the number on the screen that told you which was which anyway.  Otherwise you'll have to browse through and find them."

	Finding them again took a couple minutes, but it was worth it when she watched each video.  The girls pulled their long inner labia down, two managed to reach just past their knees, then let them retract back up to their natural hang.  Their clits and their actual vaginal entrances were exposed, then they turned around to show themselves from the back, too.

	One of the girls had a very wide pair that extended back some, the other two were fairly narrow. Each had a slightly different color to their exposed inner flesh and they all reminded Aloran of her own external genitals.  She paused the last video and put the controller back on the desk.

	"Um... thank you.  I guess that's it.  Uh, is there a name for this, er... type?"

	"Yes.  That would be, a vulva.  You can call it whatever you like.  Any descriptive term would work." The teacher didn't sound embarrassed or amused, just sort of tired.

	"I should probably go.  There was a line waiting."

	"Yes, I know."

	Aloran looked back up at the screen where the last video was still paused.  Only three like hers were there.  Maybe a fourth would make it less embarrassing, even if the thought of taking the picture and making the video would be more embarrassing.

	"Can I add my own to the set."

	"Of course.  Any girl is welcome to contribute.  The goal is to get as many as possible to help others like they seem to have helped you." Mrs. Javil stood next to her in the dark. "You sounded less worried about your anatomy just then."

	"Yeah.  I guess it helped."

	The lights were flicked on and the older woman smiled. "Remember, that is only a little under five hundred out of several hundred thousand in just this area.  If more contributed, you'd see many more like yourself.  If you really want to help, I'll lend you video camera.  You may take it home and bring it back when done."

	Aloran snuck out just as the girl before her had.  Nobody saw her because nobody wanted to.  Why was learning about their own bodies so embarrassing? She wanted to tell herself that she wasn't going to let it be embarrassing anymore, but she knew it would be.  Maybe it could be less so if she and others kept learning about themselves and helped others to learn, too.  If the first step involved showing herself off to a camera, well, that wasn't so bad.  There was even a sort of thrill to the idea.

	She had a lot to show off.