Human female reproductive system

Monday's Google Doodle paid tribute to Georgios Papanikolaou, the Greek medic and researcher who invented the smear test to detect early signs of cervical and uterine cancer.

The doodle, an illustration of him inspecting cells under a microscope, was available in 12 countries around the world.

Choosing to engage in or abstain from sex sounds like a simple enough proposition for most people. But imagine if you did not have the option, not because of impotency but due to a lack of sexual organs! Kaylee Moats, 22, from Gilbert, Arizona, was born with Mayer Rokitansky Küster Hauser syndrome (MRKH), which means she has no cervix, uterus, or vaginal opening.

There’s a quirky new trend. People are painting vaginas on their fingernails.
It’s the latest fairly bizarre thing to hit Instagram. Some of the designs are incredibly detailed. Genitalia is all the rage.
Aptly dubbed ‘vagina nails’, women are meticulously painting the female sex organ on the tips of their fingers, seemingly for no other reason than to celebrate it.

Uterus didelphys is the medical term of having two vaginas. Being born born with such a condition can be a challenge in itself, but being told certain things we take for granted in life, like childbirth, because of that condition can be devastating. Born with two vaginas, cervixes and wombs, 32-year-old Krista Schwab was told by doctors that she couldn’t become pregnant.

Elite Daily writer Jamie Leelo spoke to a former vagina waxer by the name of Mel who broke down all the ins and outs of the thousands of vaginas she saw, and came up with FIVE major vagina archetypes.