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and I found myself explaining what different parts of them are and telling them that’s everyone’s different. I think there’s something really powerful about having the opportunity to look at yourself in more detail. My sexual preference is polysexual, which means that I am attracted to different genders, though not necessarily all. Shortly after, I came across a PDF health leaflet that disrespectfully referred to the vagina as ‘a front hole’.

I felt angry that the part of my body, which is central to women’s identity, had done a number on me at 24. I know not everybody’s comfortable and excited to show the world their genitals, but looking at her now, she is pretty. My early experiences of womanhood started with the women who raised me: my nan taught me about enjoying yourself, your body and who you are. Some of the women I met had looked at themselves lots, some women had never looked and didn’t want to see it, and some women saw it for the first time on the back of my camera, which was a big deal.

I’ve always made a conscious attempt to photograph body parts in a way which is simple, comparative and non-sexualised. Very often women aren’t empowered in the process of giving birth and I wanted to try and encourage them, give them more self-confidence.

Indulge in the sensual experience of Christina X, a mature redhead with a little extra in all the right places. I had my cervix removed, the surrounding kind of tissue area and the top third of my vagina and, thank God, didn’t need further treatment, like chemotherapy. I thought the area of the vagina should look like the ones that I’d seen in porn on the internet, and they looked polar opposite to mine. A lot of healing has come about through having many pleasurable, gentle experiences at the hands of other women.It is a cancer that’s associated with sex, as in most cases you get it from the HPV virus, which is transmitted through sexual contact. When I masturbated when I was younger, I used to hate it when my clitoris got bigger – I thought it looked like a penis.

It was through my involvement with the women’s movement in the 1970s that l found my voice and the strength to confront patriarchy. It makes me feel sick that shame and stigma around gynae health means that some women won’t be as lucky as I was. I loved that, because interviewing women who have been through the menopause and still have incredible sex lives sends out a beautiful message about womanhood. I’ve probably seen more vaginas than most people, and they’re as different as our faces or our hands. I married in the 1970s and got a divorce on the basis of non-consummation: on our wedding night my husband said he had a headache.

The idea that women are turning away from pleasure because they’re worried about what they look, smell and taste like has unearthed a fundamental message for Laura. Ultimately I want to live in a world where we are people and not defined by what’s between our legs. We wrap qualities up in this umbrella of masculine or feminine, like being nurturing is seen as feminine, but those are stereotypes: we all have the capacity for those things within us.