About

 

Mission

Female Orchids is a not-for-profit educational website dedicated to:

  1. Celebrating the splendor and diversity of human female genitalia (orchids)
  2. Demonstrating the range of diversity of orchids and orchid features
  3. Documenting, classifying and describing orchids and orchid features

One half of the human occupants of the planet have one, and the other half show more than a passing interest in them. Until now, little has been done to explore the underlying nature of what makes orchids so diverse, common features or repeating patterns and how to determine if an orchid really represents a new type or is just a variation on an existing type. The female orchid is second only to the human face in the diversity of form and features.

At the heart of the Female Orchid website is the “Female Orchid Classification System – FOCS”. It supports all three of the mission statements above. FOCS is transformative in that it represents a new world view of something common in most of our daily lives. After reading FOCS, you’ll never look at orchids the same again.

Honestly, I never thought I would be the one to investigate and create such a system. However, after searching publications and the internet for years looking for a definitive guide to the variations in human female genitalia, and finding just a few poor attempts at the subject, it was the primary motivator for my call to action.

A second motivator was the void of information and examples for women to educate themselves and dispel any beliefs that they were “freaks down there” or “not normal”. In the information age, anecdotally from the internet, there appears to be a significant number of women who believe their genitalia are “abnormal”. FOCS addresses this problem with over 400 annotated orchid images demonstrating diversity and dispelling any notions of “abnormal”.

My final motivation and hope is to demonstrate the splendor of the female orchid in its natural form to convince a small minority of women to not undergo orchid labiaplasty (cosmetic surgery to change the look of the labia minora). This is a solution without a problem. I find it hard to believe woman suffer trauma because of the size or shape of their labia. Labiaplasty is narcissistic at best.

Sincerely,

Orchid Doc