“She also thought that my butt crack was horizontal - like one butt cheek on top of another.” “She literally asked me if my vagina was horizontal,” Snyder recalls. Jenny Snyder, a 27-year-old half-Asian woman also from Louisville, says that her white female friend asked her in high school if her vagina was sideways. However, this myth isn’t just circulated within male circles. So, I think that it’s inherently something that men have ingrained in their psyches.” Most Asian women first encounter this stereotype when they start having sex with men. “There’s a lot of pornography, for example, that’ll pair together Asian women and Black men, playing off those sexual stereotypes. “Pornography contributes a lot to this idea,” he says.
One 27-year-old white man, who asked to remain anonymous, shares how this avenue was where he learned the idea that Asian women have tighter vaginas. ( Ithaca College Library keeps an updated list of portrayals of Asians in films, showcasing how the roles are limited to sex props, gangsters, or entirely erased.)īut another newer avenue where most of these stereotypes continue to explicitly persist? Porn, a ground that’s rapidly becoming the primary source of sex education for teenagers. Hollywood stereotypes mostly paint Asian women as sexual, from a submissive damsel-in-distress to China Doll and dragon lady, until they give birth and become tiger moms. In the Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Robin Zheng makes a point that this history has shaped the way people are exposed to Asian women today. (The rippling effects are especially evident in Thailand, where mass sex tourism was developed to pay off debts.)Īs a result, many white men’s first encounter with Asian women was in the context of military conquest and sexual domination. Thousands of Asian women, including Thai and Filipina women, were trafficked and coerced into prostitution with white American soldiers. Patricia Park, for Bitch Media, traces this sexualization back to the Korean and Vietnam War, when the United States established a military presence. It’s unclear how this myth originated, but many suspect it’s rooted in colonialism. We don’t make decisions about size - we don’t have Asian speculums. I would definitely disagree with this stereotype. Valinda Nwadike, MD and obstetrics and gynecology specialist in California, Maryland, can see how this stereotype exists, and whole heartedly disagrees with the premise. Vaginal rejuvenation surgery, getting the “ husband stitch,” even seemingly benign Kegel exercises: All of these practices stem from the belief that tighter vaginas are better vaginas.Īnd this stereotype appears to heavily affect Asian women in particular.Ĭomedian Amy Schumer once tried to joke: “It doesn’t matter what you do, ladies, every guy is going to leave you for an Asian woman… And how do they bring it on home for the win? Oh, the smallest vaginas in the game.” He told her that he thought Asian girls were the best because their vaginas were tighter.ĭr. They’re considered indications of virginity and chastity, stemmed from the belief that women are property, to remain untouched unless by their husbands.īut on a baser level, a tight vagina is also seen as a highly appealing characteristic for cis women to possess simply because it’s more pleasurable for cis men to penetrate. Tight vaginas are prized in almost every society and culture that has roots in patriarchy. However, none have been as harmful, or as unexplored, as the expectation of having a tight vagina. Science has shown that these impractical ideals have damaging effects on women’s sense of self-worth. From perennially perky breasts to smooth, hairless legs, womanhood has been constantly sexualized and subjected to unrealistic standards.
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