This is the blog of a woman artist exploring the representation of one of the most persistent of human obsession, the pussy.

Manuela's manual is an illustrated instruction manual explaining in details how to make a realistic, life size and very sensuous plaster sculpture of a vulva; a fun, easy and sexy art project for playful couples.



Saturday, February 11, 2012

Let yourself be seen...

I am inviting all women (18+) to contribute an image of their genitals on http://www.manuelasmanual.com/

This is fun and easy, spread your legs wide open (so relaxing), take a picture and upload... Read comments, compare, study, observe... Let yourself be seen and see what the world think about your vulva... some not so innocent fun...


Friday, February 10, 2012

Vulva dream....


A field of vaginas... The answer my friend....

Pussy egg

I have found this one here.



Nothing like a bit of fun...   still am I one of these women who see sex in anything and everything?

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

The waxed origin of the world

I have choosen a painting by Courbet to illustrate the cover of Manuela's manual.
It represent a woman lying on her back spreading her legs wide open, her modesty preserved by an abondant and bush tuff of dark pubic hairs.

I had a bit of photoshop fun giving this woman a brazilian to reveal her beautiful pussy lips.

My husband thinks that she looks far more eadible like this. What do you think?

Monday, January 23, 2012

My first attempt at erotic writing....

I just wanted to share one of the sexy adventures I had while working on my vulva casting project.
I am always trying to remain coldly professional during a casting session. Even between heterosexual women there is no denying that having someone exposing her bare crotch and wide open legs in front of another woman, even for the sake of "art", is always loaded with some strong sexual tension. I normally manage to defuse the situation by driving the conversation towards some mundane subjects but on this occasion things went a bit further.

Mona had been modeling for me before, for nude photos and life drawings. She was visiting our town again and contacted me saying she was available for more modeling if required. I invited her to come along for some outdoor photos, this was a beautiful summer and I just happen to work on a commissioned drawing for a customer from the west indies for which I needed some reference shots of nude women.
Mona asked me if she could come with her friend Pascale who was visiting from the UK  "She may be wanting to do some nude photos too.."

On the day I picked them up from the local town and the three of us drove to a park not far from our home and took a walk towards a fairly remote area near a small lake. This was a week day and we were almost certain not to meet anyone else and to have the place for ourselves. After a couple of hours of shooting, we all got hot and sweaty and decided to go for a swim. Not having brought any swimming togs, we all went commando and swam naked in the clear, cold water, an idyllic moment in time.


I observed the two of them frolicking in the water while I was drying myself sitting on a rock. They seemed to be very intimate with each other, touching, cuddling, hugging, laughing, kissing… I thought that they may be more than just friends… the sight of their soft breast pressing together was very intriguing, sensuous. These two beautiful young naked women, free in the great outdoor… it seemed anything was possible…

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Are you concerned about the look of your pussy? (ter)

You may find it strange that as a woman I blog about the vagina... This is after all an object of lust for men....  
... Well, I am selling a book about pussy casting. While making this book, I had to look very closely at many vulvas and had many conversation with other women about the appearance of their genitals. It seems that too many women are not happy about the look of their pussy. As if it were not enough to worry about the width of our bum, the size of our boobs, and our overall figure, we are now having hangs up about the visual appearance of our vulva. 

I personnaly find mine rather sexy. I'll publish photos one day if I get to it or ask my husband to take some, I am sure he would love that.

In the meantime I wish women learn to love their cunt. One way to go about it is to look at other women's pussy. You may not be confortable with asking your girlfriends to show you their bare crotch. (altough it can lead to some rather sexy fun...)
Fortunately, there are hundreds if not thousands of websites publishing photos of pussies.
Vaginaoftheworld is a very interesteting tumblr site were women are invited to talk about the appearance of their vagina and to describe what they like or dislike about it. Viewers can comment.

Postings seems to be genuine enough although I am sure that there are many men lurking in this female neighborhood.

Here is a few a found rather interesting...
a lovely butterfly

Jenny has a very proheminent mons... beautiful? I think so...

Are you concerned about the look of your pussy? (bis)

Just came accross another artful study of the V.
Vulva 101 is a coffee table photographic essay by photographer Hilton Coxwell.



This book aims at helping women who have concerns about the appearance of their vulva.
It shows closeup shots of 101 women from 18 to 65, each exposing their pussy from 3 different point of view. Your can then see how you compare. This book lying on your coffee table is sure to intitiate some very interesting conversations indeed.
The model's thoughts, feelings and experiences are highlighted along with vivid illustrations of the unique beauty of the female sex.

Intelligent Erotica

If like me you like reading good erotica I can only recommend that you visit The Erotic Salon.
Dr.Susana Mayer is a sex educator (how do I become one?) who is advocating sexual freedom in its many aspects. Her Erotic Salon is a fantastic resource to find intelligent erotic reading.
My husband and I discovered erotica with Nancy Friday "Secret Garden" We would read each other our favorite stories out the book and spend some very sexy times together. This allowed us to share our sexual fantasy with each other and has opened the door to a rich sexual complicity. 

After  years of reading erotica, I have come to the conclusion that when it comes to sexual fantasy, deviance is the norm. I wish I could write, perhaps I'll try my hand at it in a future post.



For those of your who are wondering "when does it stop?"  or "does it ever stops?" it is reassuring to learn on The Erotic Salon that a good sex life can be enjoyed at any age. I suspect that like me, many women experience a loss of libido during menopause. It seems however that this is only temporary and that many women enjoy healthy and joyful lovemaking for the rest of their lives...

Sunday, January 8, 2012

for oral consumption...

I came across this image which obviously finds its place in this blog... but I could not find its legitimate owner.

Yummy muffins

This conforts me in the idea that we are truly obessed with the pussy... Is there anything more beautiful in the entire creation?

If there is indeed an intelligent designer, it must be credited with designing the most fascinating object. A pussy is almost perfetc in all aspects, unobstrusive design, perfectly lubricated, multi function (urinating, evacuating dead eggs, masturbating, copulating and giving birth.)  soft and smooth to the touch, stretchy and resistant to tear, it tastes divine, looks amazing. Bravo. Evolution could not have come up with a better design.

If you know who is the author of this picture or better still, who the baker is, please let me know. I'd love to give credit where credit is due.




Are you concerned about the look of your pussy?

After having cast so many women's genitals I can tell you that we are all different and all beautiful. I was surprised to hear so many women complaining about the look of their pussy.
Too fat, lips too long, lips uneven, too frilly, unequal, too this and too that...

One model told me that after seeing the casting of her vulva I had just done, she saw herself differently. "It makes me feel rude just looking at it" she said. "Naughty but nice."

If you want to know what men (or women) think of your pussy, simply take a picture of it and send it to me.
I would like to publish a page where people can post photos of their vagina and read comments left by vistors...  a little bit of innoccent sexy fun.

In any case, please do not subject yourself to the stupidity of vaginaplasty...

Until I have figured out how to allow people to upload their photos, please send it to me on manuela@manuelasmanual.com

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Another wall of pussies...

Photographer Nick Carras has made another wall of vaginas. This is a photographic essay and not 3D Vagina sculpture as shown in Manuela's manual.

I find it absolutely riveting...  even though I am fiercely heterosexual, I am cannot help but find beauty and seduction in the representation of the vulva (I sometimes prefer to call it the cunt. A vulva is too coldly anatomical.)


Like me, Nick had to recruit willing models, explain the aim of the project, get them to disrobe and open their legs wide apart to expose their most intimate body parts to his close scrutiny. You can easliy imagine that this situation is heavily sexually loaded...

Nick sells posters and his book "Petals"  on his website on http://nickkarras.com/Book.php

"Nick Karras has brought a refined aesthetic sensibility to the forty-eight black & white photographs of the most sacred part of a woman's body.  The female form has been forever the subject of the visual arts of sculpture and painting.  Photography brings the hard challenges of realism.  Karras achieves an exquisite balance between an expression of art and the natural delicacy of a woman's vulva."

Friday, January 6, 2012

A fellow pussy caster...

I  am not the only artist involved in making castings of female genitals...

Jamie Mc cartney became famous with his "Great Wall of Vaginas" but even the great Jamie did not invent anything. (Nothing is new under the sun.)
Swedish artist Ylva Maria Thompson cast about 100 vaginas in 1999.


This was done for an exhibition called "Anonymous Exhibitionists"

"Midori: How did your pussy cast art start?

Ylva: The project is called “Anonymous Exhibitionist”. I told the women who wanted to be in the project that they had a fantastic chance to show their pussies at art galleries, museum, art shows around the world without anybody knowing it was them.

In 1999 I decided to make 100 casts. I decided to do this to give an opportunity for women to look at other women’s pussies without shame, without looking at porno magazines, to be able to study them in relaxed way."

by
a sex expert (how do we become one? practice, practice...)


Midori having her pussy cast by Ilva

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Fishnet stockings...

My man gets feverish when he can see but not touch...
I am such a tease...

I would love to cast a pussy trapped in fishnet stockings.

The image below illustrate what I have in mind.



It is from a hilarious blog: "Stuff in my Vagina"

Monday, January 2, 2012

Smooth and bare as a pebble...

For the purpose of making a pussy casting as described in Manuela's manual, I strongly recommend that your model is fully shaved or waxed.

This is because pubic hair will not be perfectly cast and will have an adverse effect on the final sculpture. There is also a risk that long hair get trapped in the molding materials making the removal of the mold very painful. A short fuzz will glide out painlessly.

Photo: Erik Frausin

You can obviously shave yourself but many salons and spas offer the service at reasonable cost. This coquetry has in recent time become very popular.
From my personal experience I can report that the waxing procedure itself is not very pleasant and can even be painful but I do love the smooth feel and sexy look of my bare pussy.

Manuela's manual cover image...

To illustrate the front cover of Manuela's manual I have chosen a oil painting by a 19th century french artist called Gustave Courbet.





At the time, such a graphically explicit image (a close-up view of the genitals and belly of a nude woman lying on a bed with legs spread wide open.) was considered very provocative...

Today the painting is exhibited at the very respectable Musee d'Orsay in Paris.

One can see that the model was not shaved; perhaps this modern coquetry was not in fashion in the late 19th century. If you are interested in making a casting of your wife or girlfriend's pussy, I would strongly recommend that she shave or wax herself. The bushy pubes would not be captured very well by the molding material...

I am not the only pussy casting artist.

In the UK, body casting artist Jamie McCartney  has created a monumental wall sculpture from over 400 vulvas...

Visit The great wall of vagina


Jamie and I are surely two of the worldwide authorities in this very particular area of expertise.  After having made over 100 such castings I can safely say that this is not very difficult to do. In fact, it is surprisingly easy. Anybody, if given proper instructions, can make a sculpture like this at the first attempt. Manuela's manual guides you through all the necessary steps...

A ravishing butterfly

Paul M Apphart is a photographer. He publishes extraordinary images of a young English model blessed with a very beautiful butterfly.



Paul kindly authorized me to use some of his images to illustrates some aspects of Manual's manual.  My book will show you how to capture in glorious details a sensuous vulva such as Honey's wondrous wingspan...

An extract of Manuela's Manual

To start things off I though that I should post an extract of Manuela's manual.
This is the Introduction chapter...


My name is Manuela Lollenbeck. I am sculptor established in a small town on the west coast of the USA. As part of my art practice I often make body castings, mostly baby's hands and feet but also pregnant bellies and many female busts. In 2010 I have been commissioned by a celebrity sculptor from the east coast to make a series of female genital castings to serve as reference for a larger project. As a result I have been making molds and castings of perhaps 60 different vaginas in various positions using different materials and have surely become a leading authority on this very unusual area of expertise.
This was a terribly exciting project, both from the technical and human perspectives. I have had the chance to meet many interesting women in very intimate situations, I got to know them on a personal basis and many have remained good friends.
The resulting series of sculpture are absolutely fascinating. They are obviously very erotic but also have emotional qualities due to their absolute realism and their individuality, as if the soul of the faceless model was projected for the world to see through the representation of their most intimate body part.

                                                               We are all beautiful…

Many of these women's husbands, boyfriends and girlfriends have asked me to explain how they could do such sculptures themselves. Most men, but also many women are evidently strongly attracted by the sight of female genitalia. The advance of digital photography has made it possible for millions of people to take beautiful and very erotic intimate pictures and to share them on the Internet for the world to see, indulging in their exhibitionist fantasies from the privacy of their home.
I decided that there could be a market out there of people interested in making a sculpture of their wives or girlfriends' pussy and saw that I could easily write some instructions and illustrate the process, thus the concept of this book was born. I hope that you will find it useful, entertaining and well worth the few dollars I am selling it for.
To illustrate this book I have asked two good friends to cast each others vulva under my guidance while I was taking photographs of the whole procedure. Kristen, Lauran and I spend a fun afternoon together in the privacy of a motel room.
A sculpture similar to the ones we did together is fairly easy to make; it does not take very long and does not cost very much. Anybody can achieve it at the first attempt if given proper instructions. The rest of this book will take you through all the steps necessary to complete the project, starting with a brief overview through to detailed instructions.
Enjoy…!
A realistic representation of the most persistent of human obsession.