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With its geneses in the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893 the carnival would become known as a raucous, popcorn smelling afternoon where one tried to hang on to their wallets walking the midway. A period of public revelry each year that takes place before Lent; and second, A traveling amusement show.

I started to re-evaluate what womanhood could look like for me, outside of my biological capabilities.I googled bleeding and it came up with lots of different things: an STI, hormonal imbalance, cervical cancer. The sticky, sweet smell of cotton candy combined with the stench coming from the animals, and mixed with the iron taste of diesel fuel. 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 makes me feel sick that shame and stigma around gynae health means that some women won’t be as lucky as I was. I also know when a chap is in the bedroom and he’s about to get his end away, he’s not going to be thinking, ‘Oh, it could have done with a bit of work’.

Many of my burlesque ladies had certainly worked the carnival circuit including stars Sally Rand and Gypsy Rose Lee, making gobs of money with their Royal American Girlie Shows. Staring in the mid-1920s most carnivals set up in a field or wherever they could for several days and took in thousands in attendance. Since I split up with the father of my children back in 1981, I have not lived with a sexual partner. She believes a cultural change amongst adolescents and young women, who now choose to remove or style the pubic hair, coupled with a lack of understanding about vulval anatomy, is fuelling the rise. 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.I’ve always made a conscious attempt to photograph body parts in a way which is simple, comparative and non-sexualised. However, sadly, many of the conversations she had with her participants were tied with a disturbing thread of abuse.

You can’t go into a project where you interview women about their vulva, and not think about your own. 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.

It’s like a hot, burning sensation in my uterus that radiates throughout the lower half of my body, into my hips and down into my knees. Later, a BBC report about girls as young as nine seeking labiaplasty – surgery that involves the lips of the vagina being shortened or reshaped – because they were distressed by its appearance, had Laura reaching for her camera again.