In June, reports emerged that a sex toy manufacturer was launching a worldwide competition to find the world’s most beautiful vagina. While the pageant prompted more than a few outraged responses — the Gloss, for instance, declared it “utterly creepy and sexist” — one question did crop up: Who would win, and just what, exactly, would the woman and her flawless lady bits look like?
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We have an answer. Her name is Nell*, she lives in Scotland and for someone whose genitals (link NSFW) have been voted the most beautiful in the world, she’s decidedly modest about her victory.
“I still do not believe I have a special vagina,” she told Mic. “I happen to have the best picture of my vagina. That’s it. It’s nothing less, it’s nothing more.”
The search for the most beautiful vagina in the world: The Vagina Beauty Pageant was the brainchild of Brian Sloan, the inventor of the Autoblow2, an oral sex simulator for men. Sloan launched the search for the world’s most aesthetically pleasing vulva as a way to find a model for a future iteration of the Autoblow 2, which would use a “vagina sleeve” to stimulate the user’s penis rather than a rubber mouth.
“There are stock vaginas available at factories, but I thought it would be nice to deduce what kind of vaginal appearance my customers prefer and then design vagina sleeves based on their feedback,” he told the Daily Beast. The winners would receive thousands of dollars and fly to Berlin to have their vaginas 3D-scanned, so Sloan could use them as models for his sex toys.
After the contest was announced, 182 women submitted photos of their vaginas, which were ranked and voted on by 134,707 of the website’s 1.2 million unique visitors from 191 countries. The data from the contest was also used as the basis for a study, which “investigates the diversity of vulvas and the public opinion about different vulval morphologies,” measuring according to such standards as “labia minora length, labia majora length, and clitoral hood length.”
Nell’s filmmaker boyfriend convinced her to enter the pageant after he read an article about it online. She agreed, citing the anonymity and prize money — $5,000 for first place, $2,500 for second place and $1,250 for third place — as an added perk.
“[My boyfriend] has always told me, you have a cute, chubby vagina,” Nell told Mic. Indeed, if you look at the photoof her submission, it’s hard to disagree: Although her photo is less explicit than many of the other entries, her vulva is shaved and compact, resembling a smooth clamshell. In fact, it looks less like an actual vulva than a lot of the other vulvas in the contest.
That wasn’t an issue for the pageant’s voters, who gave Nell a rating of 7.7 out of 10, establishing her as the victor. But she attributes her victory not to the quality of her vulva, but to how her goods were packaged in the photo her boyfriend took, which depicts her vulva from behind.
“It’s like everything in life. It’s how you serve something. …It’s mostly about the position, the lighting, the photograph,” she told Mic. “It’s the wrapping rather than the gift.”
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