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skier I know what you're asking here. Yes, all vaginas are beautiful in their own way but I think skier is asking for some more elaborate responses.
I think I've got two theories on this.
Our face is naturally the most unique part of our bodies, I think. Humans are adapted to recognize a human face from among other human faces. Just like we can't really distinguish one monkey from other monkeys, I'll bet they can't tell us apart! But I think that (modern?) Western society often feels compelled to 'dress up' our bodies as an extension of our faces. We know we all look unique enough to tell each other apart, but the desire to be part of a group is equally matched by the desire to stand out somewhat, and be noticed.
I think we dress up our bodies because our faces are already unique enough. (This isn't taking into account people with facial tattoos and piercings, etc.) Our bodies are a lot harder to tell apart than our faces are, thus we dress up with clothes, tattoos, etc. to show our 'individuality'. We don't go all our to make our skin look different is because we need clothes to say warm and protected.
So if we are going to ask whether we'd dress up our genitals like we do our face and our hair, and unlike how we don't much dress up our hands, or toes, or thighs. Are our genitals more like our faces (unique, central to who we are, and central to identity), or like our feet (everyone has them, beautiful in their own way but not exactly key parts of our identity as individuals)?
After that bit of fluff...
I think that most of us would do something to accent our genitals, or to claim some uniqueness. We all do something with our hair, most of use wear some sort of jewellery or make-up, we might use gel or moisturizer or fancy hair-care products, so I see no reason why we wouldn't do it with our genitals too.
And we do put jewellery on our hands and feet, too, so if we consider the genitals as more like the hands and feet than the face and hair, then my point still stands I think. Think of cultures which don't use clothes or shoes to the extent we do - they are often adorned with tattoos and henna and piercings in places we aren't, because we have clothes on.
I think most cultures cover up their genitals for modesty reasons, or perhaps for protection. The ones that don't just hide them, but use jewellery to adorn them (yet still keep the skin, etc. out of sight) and exaggerate them and emphasize them, like horns etc.
Yap yap yap...
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