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In Cunty Love and Respect xxx

Upcoming Cuntcraft Events

Watch this space for our new website coming very soon!

But for now, here are dates for our future events. Come and celebrate the CUNT with us.

Come to the The Cuntquarters art studio, Central Brighton for an evening of Cuntcraft.

You have the choice to create a framed cunt or a hip cunt.

Expect a fun, light hearted time with honest chats and liberating giggles.

Friday 22nd February 7 to 9.30pm

Thursday 7th March 10am – 12.30pm

Friday 22nd March 7 – 9.30pm

Thursday 4th April 10am – 12.30pm - Mixed session – men welcome!

Thursday 25th April 7 – 9.30pm

Thursday 16th May 7 – 9.30pm - Mixed session – men welcome!

Thursday 30 May 10am – 12.30pm

We have had lots of men take part in previous events and they report that they found it very liberating! We all came from a cunt you know (unless you entered the world via C-Section, like some smart individuals keep reminding me).

The cost is £10 per person but if you are low in funds then please let us know. Tea, chocolate and all materials provided but do bring special items if you wish.  The Cuntquarters can only fit 10 people maximum so please let me know if you intend to come. Please arrive 15 minutes early to settle and have a cup of tea. Once the session starts, the the front door will be locked.

We will also be holding Cuntcraft events at the following locations;

Thursday 14th February -  V-Day One Billion Rising. We will be joining ONE BILLION people around the world in a dancing protest to end violence against women. Make your own hip cunt with Lady Cunt and then Sjane Hugo Wurlitzer and Taryn Jacobs will entice you to dance your heart. Proceeds donated to Rise, a local charity which supports women, children, young people and families affected by domestic abuse.

Saturday 23rd February - a special Cuntcraft workshop will be held to raise funds for Brighton Red Yurt which is a space built by women in our community for all women to go and chill out once in a while. It is a indescribably beautiful place and all women are welcome. Email me for more details.

Our Dream...

We dream of a world where we can talk openly 

and honestly about our cunts.

A world where they receive the respect and awe 
that they deserve.

         We wish for a planet where women get together and share their stories – 

the good stuff AND the bad stuff.

The light and darkness.

The joy and pain.

We want women’s creative juices to flow. To express their stories so they can let go of the pain.

We want ALL women to be aware of the 
beauty of their cunt.

To celebrate their uniqueness.

To know they are special.

We want pride to replace shame.

We can see a world in which women are taught from an early age of the power between their legs and

the potential in which they hold for pleasure.

Where they learn how to experience and 
unlock this pleasure.

We envisage women who are aware of their natural cycle and for those who bleed, to feel happy when they see their blood each month.

Delight instead of dread.

We want to be able to walk dark streets at night without being afraid that someone will hurt our cunts.

We want to feel safe.

We want our vulnerability to be respected.

We want to be able to choose whether our cunts are ready release babies or not without being judged.

We know when the timing is right.

We know that the day will come where women and men can say the word “cunt” 

without a trace of hate or anger.

It’s the most powerful word in the english language and 
we are taking it back.

It belongs to women.

We know it’s hard but we promise the more you use it in a positive way, the more the negativity slips away

and you are left with a word that is quite beautiful.

It retains its power and potency.

Somedays we become disheartened and the vision fades. 

We look around at the diabolical misinformed education in schools, the way cunts are wrongly dipicted in the media 
and mainstream pornography, 
the way the clitoris is not talked about, 
the way that women in the West are actually paying for their cunts to be cut and the fact that in the UK, there are about 3.5 million women are full of fake hormones that weakens their bones, affects their sexual pleasure and stops their menstrual flow. 

We scream with frustration. 

And other days our hearts and cunts are full of hope. 
Many incredible women are busily working underground to transform the mainstream perceptions 
of women and their cunts. 
Change is coming. 
It’s almost time. 
We can feel it. 
The tremours. 
The shakes.

The dam will burst and we will be there. 
We will be screaming here too. 

But this time overflowing with wild and wonderful joy ({*})

Cherish Your Cunt Campaign

A big Cunty welcome!

So maybe you bumped into us on White Night and bought a badge or saw us perform surrounded by cunty artwork in Chez Dimitrina. You might have stumbled across the grafitti cunt in the Level or were wowed by our exhibition upstairs in Northern Lights. Or you found our flyer somewhere around Brighton. Either way if you are new to the blog, welcome!

If you are offended by the word 'cunt' then please become aware of the intense feeling these four letters create within you. Sit with it for a bit and ponder... why? Why is this? What makes these four little letters joined together stir up such negative reactions? think, think, why?

One of our aims is to inspire, encourage and challenge people to turn these intense feelings that the word 'cunt' provokes into a more positive conotation. We all know there's a thin line between love and hate...

We plead with you to use this positivity to concentrate on what the word 'cunt' actually represents which is the female genitalia in all its stunning and wonderous glory. It is related to words from India, China, Rome and Egypt. These are either titles of respect for women, priestesses and witches, or derivatives of various goddesses (Muscio 2002). Negative reactions to the word 'cunt' resonate from a learned fear of the power, diversity and beauty of female gentalia. For more information about the origins of the word, scroll down to an older post which goes into more detail...
We use the word 'cunt' not only because of its important origins but also because we simply don't have another word. The word 'vagina' only refers to the inner entrance meaning 'tunnel' or 'sheath' and the vulva refers to the clitoris, outer labia majora and minora. There is no real recognised word that is for both together.
Our reasons for the White Night 'Cherish Your Cunt' campaign were to raise awareness that plastic surgery on the labia is becoming more popular particularily amongst young women. This scares us deeply. 
Labia plasty is a painful proceedure which holds the risk of affecting a woman's capacity for sexual pleasure. The fact that it is has grown by 300% in the last 5 years is terrifying.  
Please get in contact with your thoughts on our campaign through our blog or email iheartmyvagina@gmail.com
Big Cunty Love!
({*}) The Cliterati
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White Night - 29th October

Watch this space for the Cliterati's plans to spread the love once again on White Night. We are a campaigning against labiaplasty and the impact of pornography on young women's body image.There has been a 300% rise in labiaplasty in the last five years and it is the fasted rising plastic surgery in the UK.
This has been linked to pornography's unrealistic portrayal of female genitalia. We aim to raise awareness of the diversity and beauty of female genitalia and will have exhibitions in venues accross Brighton each
with it's own specific theme. The Cliterati will also be out on the streets handing out maps and conducting street surveys.

PLEASURE: OK to teach Teen Masturbation? | THE VIEW

Time to talk about good sex?

So the blog hasn't been updated in awhile... this is because Lady Cunt has had her academic hat on and has been finishing a research report titled: Time to talk about good sex? A study on the inclusion of Sexual Pleasure within Sexual Health Promotion. 

I've been interviewing sexual health workers, youth workers and young people on their reactions to a controversial sexual health resource produced by The Centre for Sexual Health and HIV in Sheffield. It was a booklet called simply 'Pleasure' and gave a straight forward arguement why we need to focus on the primary reason we al should be having sex - for pleasure. Advocates of this "pleasure propaganda", such as myself, Steve Slack and Liz Wilson from The Centre for Sexual Health and HIV in Sheffield, The Pleasure Project, Susan Jolly of the Sexuality and Development Programme in Sussex University, believe that we have been focusing on the dangers of sexual encounters for far too long.

It's time to talk about ways in which we can have safe, satisfying sex. 
The main reason cited for why people don't want to use condoms is the lack of pleasure. This needs to be counteracted with strategies to encourage people to find ways to enhance sexual pleasure whilst using a condom - vibrating cock rings, the french tickler, ribbed, spotted and ultra thin are examples. Durex and Pasante have been doing this for years as part of their marketing ploy, how long is going to take for sexual health promoters to join them? And it's not just the male condom, the all new improved FC2, femidom is said to enhance sexual pleasure for both the woman and the man. The outer rim stimulates the clitoris and the inner rim is said to produce a unique tingling feeling for the man at the tip of his penis which in fact, has enticed Nigerian men to invent a special name for the sensation!

Another blatant reason why we should talk about sexual pleasure to young people in particular is that if we don't, they will turn to pornography for the answers instead. 

You Gov (2008) found that almost sixty per cent of young people aged fourteen to seventeen have seen pornography on the internet, on their phones, in magazines, films or on the television and twenty seven per cent of the boys surveyed access pornography at least once a week. In the same study, it was discovered that five per cent of these boys viewed it daily. 
A survey of over eight hundred young men and women aged eighteen to twenty six found that eighty seven per cent of young men and thirty one per cent of young women watched pornography (Malamuth et al 2000).

 The porn that the majority of these young people are watching is the hard and fast free stuff on Red Tube, Porn Hub etc and these videos objectify women, ignore the clitoris and depict unrealistic portrayals of sex.

They make us feel inadequate. Men feel they should have huge cocks AND keep it up for hours on end whilst periodically sticking it into every possible orifice of a woman. They feel they should have hairless chests, perfect pecs and a Hollywood tan. The women in popular pornos have gigantic tits, hairless cunts minus most of the outer labia and an amazing ability to reach a screaming climax anytime a massive cock comes near her. 

It's hysterical really when you think about it and very very far removed from real life, consensual, mutally pleasurable sex. 
Porn is all about fantasy and it has it's place but the problem is that we've taken it too far. Many men and women are now trying to BE like porn stars and ACT like pornstars. Sex becomes about PERFORMANCE, not about pleasure. Young, impressionable teenagers are watching porn in sustitute for sex education and this scares me to death. By talking about sexual pleasure  - about masturbation, about sexy safe sex, about how to give good head or the best moves to guarantee  to stimulate the clitoris - we are providing our young people with an alternative to porn. An alternative to faking orgasm, to hating your body, to spending more time wondering if your belly flab is showing (and we all have belly flab!) and most of all, an alternative to the fucked up fantasies of the human sexual pysche.... because that's all they really are - fantasy and no one ever said fantasies had to impinge on reality!

I'll be writing more about this in the future but wanted to let everyone know what I've been up to and welcome any comments/ questions on this subject. It can get heated in more ways than one!!

Cuntversations and Cuntnections!!

We are overwhelmed by all the beautiful and enlightning women and men we met over the last month.

So much so that we are taking a little break to reflect.

Dates for your diaries:

First women's meeting to discuss ideas for the future - Wednesday 6th July at the Impure Art Gallery and Bar, Brighton

Cunt Crafternoon 1 - 4pm on Saturday July 30th
also at the Impure Art Gallery and Bar.

Let me know if you want to attend... or have any ideas/ suggestions.

Big Cunty Love

LC

A Celebration - Sponsored by She Said Erotic Boutique and Impure Art

Come and see The Cunt Haven which was originally exhibited for a recent production of The Vagina Monologues.
Groups of women across Brighton got together to find creative ways to express their feelings about their vaginas, their yoni, their pussys (or whatever they called theirs!).

And we felt this powerful bond that we share as women on this crazy and beautiful planet.
Pop in to see us on Saturdays and Sundays 12 to 6.
Tea, coffee and wine served.
There will be the opportunity to contribute to the exhibition (anonymously if preferred).
We will also have coffee mornings and evening workshops throughout May and will post details here once dates confirmed.
We are a non profit community project.
Men most welcome!!! 

The Brighton Fringe Festival, Impure Art Gallery,

42 Ship Street Gardens, Brighton, BN1 1AJ

The Word 'Cunt'

“The word 'Cunt' is related to words from India, China, Ireland, Rome and Egypt. Such words are either titles of respect for women, priestesses and witches, or derivatives of the names of various goddesses (Musio, 2002)”.

“Derivative of the Oriental Great Goddess as Cunti, or Kunda, the Yoni of the Uni-verse …

“Cunina”, a Roman Goddess who protected children in the cradle,

“Cunctipotent” an all powerful (I.e having cunt magic);

“Cunicle,” a hole or passage;

“Cuniculate,” penetrated by a passage;

“Kin” meant not only matrilineal blood relations, but also a cleft or crevice, the Goddess' genital opening.

A Saharan tribe called Kuntahs traced their descent from this holy place.

Indian “Kundas” were their mothers' natural children, begotten out of wedlock as gifts of the Goddess Kunda.

Of old the name applied to girls, as in China where girls were once considered children of their mothers only, having no connection to their fathers.

In ancient writings, the word 'cunt' was synonymous with 'woman', though not in the insulting modern sense. An Egyptology was shocked to find the maxims of Ptah-Hotep “used for 'woman' a term that was more than blunt”, though its delicacy was not in the eye of the ancient beholder, only in that of the modern scholar.

Medieval clergymen similarly perceived obscenity in female-genital shrines of the pagans: holy caves, wells, groves. Any such place was called cunnas diboli, “devilish cunt” …

Scared places identified with the word – cunt – sometimes embarrassed Victorian scholars who failed to understand their earlier meaning”.

The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets,

Walker, 1983

Negative reactions to “cunt” resonate from a learned fear of ancient yet contemporary, inherent yet lost, reviled yet redemptive cunt power. Eradicating a tried and true, stentorian-assed word from a language is like rendering null the Goddess Herself.

It's impossible.

Cunt: A Declaration of Independence, Musio 2002

Beautiful Quote from a UK research into young women's perceptions of sexual pleasure within safe sex

'Safe sex is as pleasurable an experience as actual penetration. Oral sex, just things like touching somebody else's body in a very gentle way. Kissing. Appreciating one another's bodies. I think it's as much fun if not more. You concentrate on each others needs a lot more. Instead of twenty minutes of bang, bang, bang, you've got the whole night; you watch the dawn come up and you're still there. Before they know it they're converted, and they suddenly realise 'well we haven't actually done it'. [Young woman aged 21].

Lady Cunt in the Easter Bonnet Parade

So it was a very hot day in Brighton and I tottered about on Western Street amongst the other Easter Bonnetees. There was beautiful array of bonnets.

My favourite (besides my own Cunt one of course) was one of Barbie and Ken in a risky sex position surrounded by flowers and feathers. 

This girl came third, I didn't get a look in. 

As a 5 year old girl told me, mine wasn't a BONNET, it was just SOMETHING stuck to a HAIRBAND! I almost told her what that SOMETHING was but felt that even for Lady Cunt, it would be going too far.

She did say I looked like Little Bo Peep too which quite excited me.

Second place was an elderly woman wearing a wedding dress (I think in tribute to the royal wedding... not sure, I chased after her to try get a photo but she disappeared). 

First place was a woman wearing a Carmen Miranda style Fruit Bonett which I feel was no more about Easter than mine but ho hum...

 I managed to get a photo with the Deputy Mayoress before she was whisked away by someone with a bigger camera.

 I did have a very interesting conversation with a gay guy in a stripey dress who said it was the first cunt he had ever seen. I liked his immediate, unflinching acceptance of this use of the word CUNT and let him look at my clitoris.

The nice man in purple told me his bonnet was a cunt too but his boyfriend said he was only joking... so I'll never really know. 

I met an irish man and as irish people do, we had an stumbling conversation in Gaelige. I know what I said and he knew what he was saying but not sure we really understood each other.

Lots of people did the usual "we're shocked but  very very interested" reaction and the girl who's bonnet had Barbie and Ken Fucking ran after me as I left, to take a photo. I obliged.... hoping she would let me take Third Prize but after much debate, we decided that she deserved it.

I walked away not sure if I'd really shared with other people why I was in the parade but I knew in my heart and in my cunt that I'd done my best and that was all that really mattered.

Photos of The Cunt Haven to "Beautiful Flowers" by India Irie

The Vagina Monologues, Brighton April 2011

I heart my cunt recently helped organise a community production of The Vagina Monologues with the beautiful Lily Rose Double from Loba productions and an amazing cast of incredible, passionate women. 

Lady Cunt performed the monologue “Hair” and Queen Clit, The Cuntess and our newest member, Princess Labia were positioned at front of house, meeting and greeting audience members.

Some arrived excited, some apprehensive and some plain scared but they all left feeling lighter, wiser and more connected with each other and the cast.

I heart my cunt also had the task of decorating the venue and turning it into
The Cunt Haven. This included 20 gold framed Collages of Cunts, big 3D vaginas
and Cunt bunting (“Cunting”).

Groups of women across Brighton got together to find creative ways to express
their feelings about their vaginas and to share stories.  

We laughed, we cried but most of all felt this strong,indescribable bond that
we share as women. We'd like to dedicate the exhibition to Eve Ensler, the
courageous shining light who created The Vagina Monologues. 

Thank you Eve, you managed to put into words what we are all feeling deep
down inside of us, in our hearts and in our cunts.

We would like to continue this experience by sharing with more and more
women by giving them the opportunity to contribute and are also looking
for a place to exhibit so if you are interested, please contact us.

A special thank you to:

Taboo of Surrey Street

Lust of Gardiner Street

Louise Everett

Liz Dean

Lis Long

 Louise Taylor and her 4 year old daughter, Lily Anna Taylor.

Moon Inside You - Diana Fabianova Interview

The Moon Inside You - documentary on how menustration affect us ALL!

Update on the shenanigans of I heart my cunt

We haven't had a chance to update the blog for awhile as we have each been super busy getting about in town shouting our heads off about how the cunt truly is the core. We have been out, talking to women and men and hearing what they have to say. Some we agree with, some we don't but we learned alot in the process and we'd like to say that we still entirely stick by our original point - that the cunt cannot be ignored, that it's the time for the cunt to be celebrated.

We aim to entice women;
To get their creative juices flowing.
To listen to their core, their centre and find a way to express what they hear.
To connect with what's really going on in our bodies and learn to be gentle with ourselves.
To break down feelings of guilt and shame that we have internalised by simply being a woman in
modern society.
To begin to challenge our personal and social barriers to talking about our sexuality to each other.
To find a way to then impart new found knowledge to others so we can unite and begin celebrations together!

The Cunt Coloring Book - Tribute to Tee Corinne

The Internal Clitoris

The Visable Vagina exhibition in New York

In protest to how the female genitalia is mainly only seen in pornography and almost always for the exclusive pleasure of men, this show was designed to showcase artwork that empowers the vagina and finally makes it visable to the public.
"The goal of this exhibition is to remove these prurient connotations, implicit even in works of art, ever since the pudendum was prudishly covered by a fig leaf".
Just like us, these artists feel it is time for female genitalia to be honoured and celebrated.
This exhibition attempts to free the cunt of its prissy fig leaf and display it for its true and mesmerising beauty.Thank you!!

Carol Cole Back into the Womb, 1997

Betty Tompkins Cunt Grid #12, 2009

Elisabeth Kley VV1 2009

Elisabeth Kley VV2 2009

White Night Flyer

I'm Lady Cunt

I built a wall around my lady garden
when i was young...
i was told stories, crazy stories
about someone invading my lady garden
but i don't remember
so i'll never really know if they're true


so i built a huge cold stone wall around my lady garden
it was big and protective and i felt safe
yes i did
i loved that massive wall
it looked after me
it was always there


Sometimes boys would like to visit my lady garden
I let them but i didn't like it
So i pretended
I moaned and I groaned estatically
and screamed my face off erratically
Then i cried myself asleep hopelessly


So, over time, i turned my back on my lady garden
I let everything die
the soil was parched and burnt
there was dead weeds everywhere
and it wasn't cool
no fucking way was it cool


The wall was still there, protecting, minding
but then someone threw a seed over my wall
and i felt an undescribable stirring, i got curious
what was this? little green shoots that had roots
and then a tiny beautiful flower tentitavely grew
Reaching its face up to the sky in aspiration of the future


Through further exploration,
I learnt to plant my own seeds
I've witnessed many flowers blossom
I now have bouganvillia and lavender
And I water it carefully and regularly
Butterflies come to visit occasionally in the summertime


The wall is still there
I love it too much to knock it down
But the flowers grow up around it
And there's an opening for my husband
A sweet sweet opening
to a special place inside me
Where everything is very fucking cool


I don't call it my lady garden anymore
Because I want a real name
that holds the history of womenkind
Of godesses and whores
A name that is the only one that women have
That tells our stories of pain, love and hope


It's now my Cunt
and I'm Lady Cunt


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Bish Guide to the Clit

Monthly Women's group in Brighton

We were thinking of starting a monthly group in Brighton for us women to talk about all things Cunt related.

We could share stories on contraception, menustration, pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion and of course sexual pleasure! An idea we had was to send an article or documentary around each month and then at the meeting we could discuss it. There would be opportunities to share artwork, songs, poems and anything else Cunt related.

Contact iheartmyvagina@gmail.com if interested.

Moving beyond the word

Of course it isn't just about the word, we feel that if women love their cunts more and can pleasure themselves first, then alot of the mistakes we make in sexual encounters as young women could be possibly avoided. These obviously are the ones we have control over and does not include when cunts are treated badly and forcefully. We will talk about violence against cunts around the world and take a stand against it. This includes rape, forced prostitution, female genital mutulation and also labia reconstruction which women are actually paying to have done.

We also want to promote the love and respect of the cunt to young men, old men.. ALLstraight men. As one guy told us... "straight men spend the first nine months of their lives trying to get out of a cunt and the rest of their lives trying to get back in!" It is more difficult for a woman to reach orgasm and mostly the bang bang that alot of men like just doesn't cut it... this can lead to all sorts of psychological impacts on women who wonder why they don't like sex and if there is something wrong with them. We want blokes to think about how they can pleasure women and what it feels like for us.

Quoting the Vagina Monologues - " The clitoris is an organ created for pleasure. It has 8000 nerve fibres, which is more than those at the fingertips, lips, tongue and twice as many as the penis!"

Cunts come in all shapes, colours and sizes. Each and every single one is unique and they are ALL beautiful. If you haven't already, get a mirror or a camera and have a look down there, explore and have fun! Then come and tell us all about it! We want to start dialogue with women about cunts and if possible, share tips!

Laci Green on the word 'Cunt'!