Design-a-Vagina Contest to Re-run
Friends of RKNet may recall our first attempt at a contest, the Design-a-Vagina contest. Friends of RKNet may also recall that the contest, minus Dr. Hypercube’s brilliant concept submission was a spectacular failure.
Perhaps the contest was simply too ahead of its time, perhaps it was simply released from the nest before it was truly ready to take to the skies. Whatever the case, the concept behind the contest did not go entirely unnoticed. I received a very positive communication from a woman from North One Television, who wrote in the hopes of finding out the results of the previous contest.
It was with great regret that I had to inform her that no results were posted on the site… because there weren’t any results to post!
However, every day is another opportunity to turn things around. A documentary is being produced called “The Vagina Dialogues”. In the interest of reaching more people and getting people’s opinions on what the “visually ideal” vulva is like and people’s opinions on the things people do to achieve that ideal, we will be posting the details of the new, improved Design-a-Vagina contest very soon. Changes will include a more cohesive, thoughtful theme, and the presence of real prizes this time. Suggestions for prizes are welcome. In addition to submission-based prizes, we are also considering promotion-based prizes. (Suggestions for this portion are welcome also.)
Details on the documentary are below for those interested in getting a jump start on considering the overall theme of the contest.
In the last 5 years more and more women are choosing to have both aesthetic and reconstructive surgery. Surgeries such as vaginal tightening, labiaplasty and vaginal rejuvenation are being performed in NHS hospitals and in numerous private clinics around the country and this documentary aims to understand why women are becoming so concerned about the way they look and feel down there that they are resorting to plastic surgery.
Over the next few months our presenter will meet a number of people with differing views about vaginas – ranging from medical experts to mums and teenagers. She will look into how sex education is taught in schools, how men feel about women’s vulvas, how different cultures feel about vaginas and how over the past 20 years women’s perceptions of their bodies appears to have changed so dramatically - surely our grandmothers would never have considered having genital surgery?
We are very keen to address the issues that still remain taboo and make vagina-related topics not something to dismiss and laugh about, but a part of the body to understand, appreciate and admire.
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Ian said,
May 27, 2008 @ 8:17 pm
I think an essay contest would be fun, and I think people would dig it, but it is said that a picture is worth a thousand words, etc. I think we should consider accepting all creative submissions, no medium excluded.
Do we know if they prefer a particular kind of content to another? They may want to put this stuff on tv, so visually depicting some sort of prehensile mutant vagina, no matter how tasteful the execution, might be a no-no. What’s the deal there?
Yr Humble Commentator said,
May 27, 2008 @ 9:17 pm
Barring an Event heretofore unheralded, such as an Act of God, or ye Other, which contributeth no gainsayable Cause or Reason, yet which renders yr humble Commentator insensate or immobile or that which engenders any other Circumstances, the Nature of which may impede me from joining at once to this whimsical Exercise, I ought to advance the proposition that Yr. Humble &ct. &ct., might himself be of no small Utility in this Matter.
If any knave challengeth my Right as a Participant, I shall produce Shillelagh, Cudgel, &ct., and brandish Same furiously. An this prove an insufficient Deterrent, so shall I cry “Fie!” and engage the enemy with Small-Sword and ye trusty Dodo-fowlinge piece (this Last being a fearsomely effective -and surprisingly specialized- Article of Weaponrie, gifted me by the late Caliph of Baghdad, as payment for rescuing his Harem from Fish-Monsters, but that is a tale for another Time).