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First times: "we ended up kissing"

First time lesbian experience: "we ended up kissing"“I had always been attracted to women, but I never thought I was a lesbian,” says Avni.

At school she had always thought being a lesbian meant “having short hair, wearing oversized boyish clothes, being unusually enthusiastic about the English Premier League and generally being a social outcast”. Part four in our first times series.

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Vagina and more

You've sexual organs on the inside and outside. The word vagina is often used to describe the genitals or female sexual organs, but actually it is just a part of them. The vagina is the opening (tube) that connects the inside and outside female sexual organs.

Image: Front view and side view

1. Fallopian tubes
2. Ovaries
3. Womb (uterus)
4. Vagina

Click on the links to read about the female sexual organs on the inside.


The external sexual organs are what you see on the outside of your body – between your legs. In women and girls this is called the vulva:
 

Image:
1. Mons pubis
2. Urethral opening (where the pee comes out)
3. Vagina opening (which may be surrounded or partly covered by the hymen)
4. Clitoris
5. Outer labia
6. Inner labia

Read more in the section called Vulva.

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