So, There’s an App That’ll Spy On Your Vagina for You…

As owners of vaginas, we can’t clearly see what’s going on down there without whipping out a hand mirror. So, a new app called Labella is offering to check up on your vag for you, just to make sure everything’s running smoothly.

What exactly does this app do? According to a conference paper titled “Interactivity: Looking at the Vagina through Labella” (best conference ever), the app pairs with underwear that contains special markers that can be recognized by a phone camera. In addition to displaying what’s going on inside your panties, the app guides you through a 3-D image of a vulva, explaining different parts of your anatomy and even telling you how to do pelvic floor muscle exercises.

Not really sure why you’d need this? Yeah, neither were we. It does seem like a whole lot of trouble to do something a mirror and a few Google searches could probably accomplish.

But the creators of Labella, which doesn’t appear to be on the app store currently, see it as a necessary service to women who haven’t received adequate education about their bodies. Teresa Almeida, one of the scientists who created it, pointed out in an article for The Conversation that some women are in the dark about their anatomy. She cites a survey finding that half of 26 to 35-year-old women can’t locate the vagina on a diagram. “Women are not talking about their genitals because of society’s views of vaginas—mainly as something sexualized and shrouded in mystery,” she wrote. “We hope that Labella will have a role to play in helping to break this cycle of bodily taboos that are barriers to knowledge and self care.”

Whether or not a vaginal surveillance camera is necessary for this, it’s a mission we can get behind.

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