• optissima@lemmy.ml
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    Yeah, I need a collection of vagina sounds for research purposes. Yes, they have to be ballerinas, and don’t skimp on the bare feet pics

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      Not research, but artistic! And the article said the volunteers were unsolicited, so they were (presumably) happy to contribute to the cause!

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          28 days ago

          I actually chose my words very carefully because I wasn’t sure either. Unpaid? Or the women volunteered without even being asked? I’d normally think the latter, but it seems pretty bizarre!

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    Ok, I was going to crack a joke about how this is a response to the vulva slit being removed from the depiction of the nude woman on the Pioneer plaque, but it literally is.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque#Criticism

    According to the memoirs of Robert S. Kraemer, however, the original design that was presented to NASA headquarters included a line which indicated the woman’s vulva,[11] and this line was erased as a condition for approval of the design by John Naugle, former head of NASA’s Office of Space Science and the agency’s former chief scientist.[11]

    There have also been criticisms of the censorship of the female figure’s genitals. Scientist and artist Joe Davis protested the depiction with his Poetica Vaginal project wherein he used an MIT radar dish to transmit the recordings of a vaginal detector.[22]

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      29 days ago

      So youre telling me that Aliens think that Barbie is anatomically correct… Jesus christ, we really are fucking weird when it comes to chicks.

  • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
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    Became concerned

    I’d put “hypothetical aliens listening to our radio transmissions won’t know what our vaginas sound like” preeeety far down my list of concerns but you do you, king

  • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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    Oh, I thought they meant the other kind of “sound” and I am like, that’s a lot of mass to send interstellar for a joke.