10 misconceptions about female body – You need to see this! (+Photos)

4. Horizontal Vaginas

Among some of the weirdest myths surrounding female genitals is that Asian women (especially Korean, Chinese and Japanese) have horizontal vaginas. In the 19th century, a French naturalist George Cuvier said that Chinese women have their vaginas positioned horizontally. This belief was further spread by the American soldiers during the Korean War and World War II. In spite of the fact that in the 1880s, an author named JW Buel did extensive research on the Chinese women living in Chinatown of San Francisco and said that those women had normal vaginas.