Persuasive Essay On My Vagina

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Why has my vagina along with every other woman 's been such a controversial topic for all of these years? That is my vagina and she likes her privacy! My vagina and her ancestors were given rules and guidelines to follow created mostly by men. Men, the species with a penis, the same people that have never experienced monthly menstruation, nor have they ever pushed a human being out of their bodies! I, personally, have not experienced labor either, but if it weren 't for Annie Besant and several other feminists, I probably would have by now.

It isn 't easy being a vagina, nor is it easy to possess one. Life as we know it would not exist without them, which is probably why people have been fighting over the rights of them for so long. (Those …show more content…

Through time, this included several factors such as the use of contraceptives. Before the legalization of birth control, condoms, and abortions, women all over were getting abortions done illegally in the streets. The human population was out of control and it was hard for women to stay at home and be a mother while also going to work. Yes, women were working at home and for a wage to support their families. Many women would send their children to work as well because the income of both parents was not enough to support them. Since many families prior to the industrial age did not have to buy the new technologies that were suppose to help with household chores, they spent less money on those things and put more time and effort in to make them. Well since the industrialization happened, women were forced to work, making the desire for children weaken due to the lack of ability to support several children. After the arrest of Annie Besant, the need for birth control became more relevant to the public and later resulted in the legalization of birth control. This was a huge change in reproductive rights because prior to the legalization of birth control, people weren’t even allowed to talk about birth control in public and even in some households. With this came the vulcanization of rubber resulting in more affordable condoms for men and women. Women were …show more content…

I am proud to say that I am currently a student in college, I am on birth control, I am with a guy that respects the rights that I have to my own body and we always discuss how we will split the responsibilities of having our own place and possibly children equally. Without the fight for equal rights that our vagina’s ancestors suffered through, I would probably be cooking dinner while breast-feeding my child right now. I would be wearing a dress with my hair done the way my husband likes it. I would be stressed out and craving sex but believing that I have a common form of “hysteria”. I would not know that sex is fun and pleasing. I would have never kissed a girl in college because that wasn’t the modest thing to do, and I would have to spend the rest of my life wondering why my husband’s quality of life is superior to mine.

Although there are endless issues to be addressed involving the equal rights of men and women, I would be sitting here until my ass rotted away if I wrote about all of them. I decided to write about the reproductive rights of women because I was completely unaware about it all until taking Introduction to Women’s Studies in college this year. Being a birth control and condom user, I was horrified with the fight women had to go through in previous years to gain access to these

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