For those who thought the “pussyhat project” was just a little too subtle, you can now be up close and personal with the most intimate part of the female anatomy when you’re just trying to walk across the street—all in the name of female empowerment.
The “Clitorosity” project, the brainchild of 24-year-old aspiring social media star Laura Kingsley, features rudimentary drawings of anatomically correct clitorises all around the world:
(Image source: Instagram)
To outside observers, being prompted with the question, “What’s that?” can draw many different possible observations, from a turkey to a wishbone. Even women may be baffled by the drawing, as it looks more like what you find on a medical diagram than their own experience.
Considering part of the point of the Clitorosity campaign is to draw more attention and awareness of the clitoris, it defeats the purpose to draw it in a completely unidentifiable manner to the average eye.
Kingsley told Women’s Health, “in our culture we get so many sexual messages: We’re encouraged to have sex in everything from ads to magazines to movies, but we don’t have conversations about real anatomy.”
Kingsley said she was inspired to draw clitorises wherever she goes after “learning about the actual structure” of the body part and how “surprising and empowering and enlightening” the experience was for her.
“I started thinking about how I could get people to engage, and that’s when I came up with the idea of drawing clitorises on the street, so people would see them,” she explained.
According to Kingsley, even though the point of her project is to make sure people in public question what they know about the female body, she tries not to be offensive to people in other cultures. She says when she visits foreign countries, she asks for help with translations, because “I also want to make sure I’m not saying something culturally insensitive.”
It is unclear if Kingsley will take her tour to the Middle East to draw her profane images, but she told Women’s Health she has visited the United Kingdom, Sweden, Portugal, and Denmark.
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