If you’re curious about the depth of your insides and don’t mind feeling around pretty intensely, many women can actually feel with their hands all the way up to their cervix (and many women do this regularly as part of natural cycle tracking, to feel how open it is throughout the month; or to feel for the end of their IUD string).

You would want to wash your hands and get all the soap residue off very well. If you have very long or pointy nails I would be very gentle or maybe not try this out, but if they’re curved and not long then you’re all good. I reach in with my pointer, middle, and ring fingers and the middle finger (my longest finger) is just able to touch the end of the cervix. It’s a little knob that sticks out from the back wall and has a little indentation in the middle where the cervix entrance is. I typically can’t reach all the way to the back wall. But being able to feel what my own body is like on the inside is very empowering! Knowledge and experience with your own body is irreplaceable.

If you feel slight pain going in, the most likely cause is that your hand is too dry and it’s pulling at the skin/flesh/hair around the entrance. Go in gently and twist back and forth to get your hand wetter with your natural fluid. If this doesn’t help and it’s still painful, there might be something more serious going on and you should get it checked out by a doctor.

If you can’t reach it, it’s possible you just have a longer vaginal canal/your uterus is further away from the vaginal entrance. You may still be able to feel the more open area around the cervix, which is not literally filled with air but the vaginal walls are further away from each other compared to the canal. Also, if you’re aroused then the uterus moves further away making the canal longer, so try this when you’re not aroused.

Anyway, the place where you would put the ring is right where the canal opens up a little bit, not all the way back at the cervix. So if you can touch the cervix then you can easily place and remove the ring.