I'll Show You Mine Hardcover – February 1, 2011

This certainly isn't the first photo essay dedicated to vulvae in all their variety. No matter - each collection offers a different perspective. This presents each woman in frontal view, as you'd see her standing, then again in more open pose, revealing the inner detail. And, with each pair of pictures, there's a brief essay by the woman offering herself to the camera. The essays range widely in tone, some more mystical, some (to quote one contributor) "Feministy or Earth Mother Birthing Goddessy," many with darker back-stories of shame or abuse. As a male reader with warmest regard for the women who've been my friends and intimates, I was shocked (though maybe not surprised) at the number in that last category.But, however much their thoughts interest me, the photos dominate this study. At the risk of sounding obvious, every woman is unique, in face, figure, and all her little details. Her vulva might display that uniqueness more than any other part of her. Although built to a common plan, as faces are, each one differs from every other far more than faces do. I don't mean just in the piercings and grooming variations, but in the natural sculpture of delicate tissue. Perhaps that individuality, each one being so distinctive, is part of why genitals are so often hidden - the commonplace parts of her are for everyday business, but her unique self is something to share only with her closest.More the loveliness of each one, the timelessness impressed me, too. The front notes say that the volunteers range from nineteen to their sixties. For the life of me, I couldn't tell by looking. Maybe a more mature woman would be less likely to dye her pubic hair or to have piercings, but those are indirect clues only. Maybe "forever young" isn't the right term, or even respectful to fully mature women, but "forever charming" covers what matters.-- wiredweird

The photos were good some could have been brighten a little, but it is worth a 41/2 star! Depending what typ person U are I than U would respect the ladies for putting the self exposed and explaining how they felt about it

In school, we did not learn what the different types of vulvas could look like. And now we have to pay $50 for a book that isn’t encompassing of all the vulvas. I get what they were trying to do, but really disappointing way of getting there.

As a sex therapist I provide sexual health education and this book is a terrific way to normalize that there is a wide range of “normal” for vulvas and no one “perfect” look, shape, or color.

Would have liked to see pictures of the women along with the vaginas.

This book is overrated. First of all, it is small although it appears large in the Amazon listing. Secondly, it has no interesting content but a small sample of retouched, unrealistic vulvae. At $35.00 this book is really overpriced, unless whoever published it is also using the extra book cost in order to fund some women charity. If you are looking for good erotica book look somewhere else, but if you wish to see a few doctored photos then buy this book.

A beautiful book, good photos, interesting text, you get what is promised, at the same Level as Femalia, Petals and Frannie Adams' books. Thanks Wrenna !

Excellent book for sex ed. I appreciate that the authors included the stories and pictures of 2 transwomen in this book.

Was hoping it would be close-up, non-identifying, ethnically-diverse book of images only, so it could be used as a respectable source of educational material for young girls and women to help “normalise” and understand how different everyone’s body looks. Sadly, it is predominantly Caucasian images and every second page is wasted with a full page of backstory about how the woman “feels” about her genitals and her life experience with it to date, using unnecessarily odd and/or rough-language terminology to describe their genitalia. With all due respect to the women who bravely took part in this important and much-needed educational resource, the backstories of the owners of the genitalia are a completely unnecessary and unwanted inclusion in this book and detract from the true purpose of the book - to show diversity and allow women to draw their own conclusions about body awareness.