**This site contains photos of a cervix**

October 14, 2009 7:27 PM

A 25 year old woman has taken photographs of her cervix every day throughout an entire menstrual cycle so that she could see the differences day to day. The photos are presented as part of the The Beautiful Cervix Project. Possibly NSFW

The photo gallery has contributions from a 23 year old pregnant woman, a 35 year old woman who has undergone 4 vaginal births and a 63 year old, post-menopausal woman.

posted by Cat Pie Hurts (37 comments total)

As a male, no matter how intimate I may ever become with a female body, there will always be an impenetrable mystery of internal form, function and sensation. I really appreciate the way this gallery gives a glimpse into female biology in a completely fascinating and intimate, yet non-sexual way.
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 7:27 PM on October 14

Have we seen this before?
posted by pinky at 7:28 PM on October 14

[more inside], again.
posted by yhbc at 7:30 PM on October 14 [3 favorites]

Ah..that would explain why the search didn't find it..the old domain is dead. Mods, delete at your discretion (but I would at least update the links on the original post to reflect the new address)
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 7:31 PM on October 14

The "money quote"...

I re-used a plastic speculum (order one here) and macro function of normal digital camera (and a very talented boyfriend with a headlamp).
posted by ZenMasterThis at 7:35 PM on October 14

This is a dribble, er, double I mean.
posted by sourwookie at 7:44 PM on October 14

After I saw the post the first time, I asked my gyno for a pair of duck lips. Too bad I cannot post the outcome. Out. Come. HA. Mods?? Yeah. Delete.
posted by psylosyren at 7:56 PM on October 14

Hmmm this might be some new definition of the word "beautiful" which is not the same as the one I grew up with.
posted by xmutex at 7:57 PM on October 14

Am I the only one who thinks this is weird?
posted by Acromion at 8:00 PM on October 14

Nothing like cervix with a smile...
posted by jonp72 at 8:02 PM on October 14

yeah, weird. I don't know what else to say about it.
posted by djduckie at 8:03 PM on October 14

Yup, I'm definitely gay.
posted by roger ackroyd at 8:03 PM on October 14

Pass.
posted by chronkite at 8:06 PM on October 14

Yikes...these freaked me out a bit. Women are complicated.
posted by Salvor Hardin at 8:13 PM on October 14

Eee gads, women parts! Run! No, better yet, stay and snark!

It's a cervix, people. You passed through one when you were born.
posted by mai at 8:15 PM on October 14 [2 favorites]

That don't really make it "beautiful."
posted by malapropist at 8:18 PM on October 14 [1 favorite]

I would argue that it does.
posted by mai at 8:19 PM on October 14 [1 favorite]

It's a cervix, people. You passed through one when you were born.

I don't know about you, but I didn't get a good look on my way out.
posted by Simon Barclay at 8:21 PM on October 14 [3 favorites]

As a woman, I have to admit, I have about as much desire to look at my cervix as I do my appendix. It doesn't bother me and, other than the annual exam, I don't bother it.

Does that make me a bad feminist?
posted by Kellydamnit at 8:21 PM on October 14

My favorite part is the time lapse of the cervix growing a beard.
posted by PostIronyIsNotaMyth at 8:21 PM on October 14 [1 favorite]

I don't know about you, but I didn't get a good look on my way out.

Not all of us were in first class with a complementary sleep mask, you insensitive clod!
posted by Inspector.Gadget at 8:22 PM on October 14 [1 favorite]

This Is Just To Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
your cervix

and which
you were probably
saving
for an art project

Forgive me...

Oh never mind
posted by HP LaserJet P10006 at 8:25 PM on October 14 [2 favorites]

I believe I have finally figured out what "art" is.
posted by KokuRyu at 8:28 PM on October 14

If I had a penny for every time I saw a high resolution photograph of a cervix during the menstrual cycle, I would have EXACTLY ONE PENNY. THANKS.

But let's be honest with each other. Dicks look pretty weird, too. As a species, we are great and a lot of fun and gross and hilarious and beautiful. In a weird way.
posted by gordie at 8:29 PM on October 14

I had higher hopes for the quality of comments on MeFi compared to the ones on reddit where I originally saw this a few weeks back.

Meh. It's a whole world of lowered expectations, I guess.
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 8:30 PM on October 14

Just a typical day -- eat a bowl of Crispix while consulting a prolix appendix and listening to a remix, then photograph your cervix.
posted by brain_drain at 8:32 PM on October 14

mai: It's a cervix, people.

Exactly. It's nothing to freak out over.

You passed through one when you were born.

Um. No, I didn't. (Neither did my kids, for that matter.)
posted by zarq at 8:33 PM on October 14 [1 favorite]

...and yeah, I agree that it's beautiful... :)
posted by zarq at 8:34 PM on October 14

Personally I find this incredibly beautiful. Thanks for posting this, Cat Pie Hurts.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 8:34 PM on October 14

Annie sprinkle did some cervix art.
posted by idiopath at 8:41 PM on October 14

It's a cervix, people. You passed through one when you were born.

This is a urethra, people. You passed through one when you were conceived. (Beautiful?)

also you pass urine through one sometimes
posted by grobstein at 8:51 PM on October 14

.
posted by hifiparasol at 8:52 PM on October 14

Intimate.
posted by PHINC at 8:52 PM on October 14

I'm voting for not beautiful.

There is nothing about the innate human form that is particularly beautiful. Evolution selected for surviving, and that's about it. Have you seen the weird fingerlets we have our our feet yet? We are what we are, anything in my brain that wants to think different is just getting fooled by the part that tries to trick us into making babies.
posted by floam at 8:52 PM on October 14

I think these pictures are great. I've seen detailed photos of hearts and lungs and all of that good stuff, but never this. Some freaked me out a little, too, but eh. No more than other bodily fluid related thing would. I was more surprised than anything, which is kind of sad.

I wish more girls were introduced to photos like this, it seems women are told that they should be freaked out by their bodies (which are unclean and smelly and disgusting and...) and I think more familiarity with one's own anatomy would help avert that idea.
posted by Solon and Thanks at 8:52 PM on October 14 [1 favorite]

It's a cervix, people. You passed through one when you were born.

I'm still waiting to be born.
posted by HP LaserJet P10006 at 8:53 PM on October 14 [1 favorite]

Age 23 – During Pregnancy really does look like it's positively bursting with life. The cervix is beautiful.
posted by Scoo at 8:54 PM on October 14