Vagina Love

Key Selling Points:
This book can serve as a wonderful teaching tool for young folks and people of all ages looking to learn more about the female anatomy.
Read and approved by a gynecologist.
Colorful, vibrant art style that makes the scientific aspects of the book more accessible to all readers.
Explores topics that can be taboo, with humor, honesty, and heart.
This book explains the anatomy of the vagina and debunks the stigmas that often surround the subject.
The Competition:
Following in the footsteps of Eve Ensler with her eye-opening play The Vagina Monologues, launched in 1996, this book seeks to demystify the vagina. Others have done so as well, such as The V Book by Dr. Elizabeth Stewart and Paula Spencer, Becoming Cliterate by Dr. Laurie Mintz. What makes Vagina Love so perfect for this moment is the fresh illustrations, honest, self-effacing humor, and dashes of personal narrative throughout the book.
News Tie-in/Current Relevance:
The documentary series, Sex, Explained debuted on Netflix in January 2020 to great popularity. Episodes focused on topics like childbirth, fertility, and birth control.
Books like Peggy Orenstein's Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape and American Girl's The Care and Keeping of You have been staples to help teach young people about their bodies. Vagina Love demystifies the female anatomy for young people, whether they have a vagina or not, and it does so with humor.
From states limiting abortion access, to schools omitting discussions on contraceptives in their sex education, there is a real need for educational materials that debunk the many myths surrounding the female anatomy.
Notable Author/Illustrator:
This book was originally published in 2018 in French by the French publisher Casterman under the title VaginTonic.
Lili Sohn has published another title, Mamas, in French with the French publisher Casterman in 2019.
Sohn currently lives in Marseille, France.