Medical men have been called upon to extract a wide variety of objects from the vagina and urethra following masturbation or accident. Usually the woman knew that the object was inside her and requested medical assistance.

The vagina, usually associated with sexual intercourse and childbirth, can be employed in a variety of other ways. In addition to serving as a money-box the vagina can also play the part of a billiard table, a game seemingly favoured in parts of Scandinavia. Thus one writer (J. C. Lauret in "The Danish Sex Fairs") remarks "The ladies will lift up their skirts... They will sit against the wall, their legs spread well apart. The gentlemen will take their places on the opposite side of the room... Everyone has a try. The object is to flick the glass marbles into the hole

A woman aged twenty-one in Salonica was reported as having a boyfriend, two years after receiving a vagina transplant from her mother aged fifty. A professor at the city's university was reported as saying there had been no signs of tissue rejection. The woman's previous deformity had led to the dissolution of her first marriage. The operation to equip her with a new genital tract was apparently successful ("Guardian", 5/3/73).

The human vagina, when not engaged in coitus, is often much smaller than the local penis. The vaginal tissue, happily enough, has the facility to expand to welcome the visitor and in such circumstances can quite easily double its volumetric capacity and become half as long again.

Most animals needing a vagina make do with one. Some animals - by accident or intention - finish up with two. In the duck bill, the spiny anteater (i.e. in the monotremes), and in the marsupials the vaginas are paired, as are various other bits and pieces in the female genital arrangement. In the embryo the uterine tube, uterus and vagina exist as paired and entirely separate structures - and so they. remain in adults of the species mentioned. This "paired" feature - common to some animals can appear as an abnormality, prohibiting reproduction, in others.

The vagina in the largest species is, by the standards of mere mortals, an extraordinarily capacious device: Elephants do not have the biggest vaginas but they are quite impressive in the magnitude of their genital apparatus. In the female elephant the vagina is a "simple, capacious tube which measures nearly 50cm. in length." We may expect this channel to expand considerably upon insertion of the male organ. It is of some interest that the female genital channel comes equipped with a large transversely placed hymen. The largest vagina in the

Most mammalian vaginas are more or less the same in overall configuration: they basically comprise a smoothish lubricated channel to allow penile insertion and subsequent parturition. Some vaginas are however exceptional. One such is the vagina in the female hippopotamus, coming equipped as it does with 10 to 19 transverse interlocking fibrous ridges. The ridges at the upper end of the vagina are the most pronounced, resembling heavy corrugations. Similar, though less pronounced, corrugations are discernible in the vagina of pig and warthog. In

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• Largest human penis
• Largest penis in animal kingdom

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The Illustrated Book of Sexual Records is a compilation of well over 400 sexual superlatives from all around the world.

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