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Keersten Fitzgerald, Lecturer in General Practice, University of Sydney

How long is a vagina? And how do I know if mine is ‘short’?

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We often use the word vagina to describe everything “down there”, but that’s not actually anatomically correct.

The vagina is the stretchy, muscular tube that connects the external genitalia, or vulva, to the cervix, which is the entrance to the uterus (womb).

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