Vagina (55 page)

in literature, 165–66, 230–32

playing with her nipples, 320–21

“showers of stars,” 327–28

stroking her, 302–7

talking and listening to her, 299–302

telling her she’s beautiful, 311–14

valuing her and helping her, 273–76

Goddess Network, 272

goddess worship, in ancient history, 125–30

Golden Lotus, The,
208

Goldman, Emma, 42, 45, 46

Goldstein, Al, 232

Goleman, Daniel, 8, 9, 297–98, 301–2

Gone with the Wind
(Mitchell), 315

“good” and “bad” vaginas, 141–43

good guys, 314–18

Good & Plenty candies, 290

Good Vibrations (San Francisco), 180

Gorzalka, Boris, 28, 34, 104

Gottman, John, 301–3

Grant, Linda, 201

Gravina, G. L., 309

Great Medicine of the Three Peaks,
241

Great Mother, The
(Neumann), 128

Greece vacation, 329–33

Greeks, ancient, 129–30, 133

Greer, Germaine, 178, 183

Groneman, Carol, 148–49

G-spot, 78–79, 177, 307–11

environmental setting and, 280–82

Tantra and, 243, 249, 251, 257

gynecology, 143, 145–46

H

Halsted, William, 61

Hamlet
(Shakespeare), 137–38

Han Dynasty, 206, 207, 208, 239–40

Hastini-Yoni, 207–8

hateful vagina, 131–40

Healing Painful Sex
(Coady and Fish), 107–14, 310

Heartdaka.com, 257–58

Hefner, Hugh, 232

Hellerstein, Erna Olafson, 146–47

Hesiod, 128

Hewitt, Jennifer Love, 214

Hill, Anita, 188–89

Hinduism, 124, 128, 207–8.
See also
Tantra

hip-hop, 175

Hippocrates, 130, 133

History of Sexuality, The
(Foucault), 141

Hite, Shere,
The Hite Report,
2, 77, 78–79, 176–77, 216–17

Hoch, Zwi, 310

Holden, Lynn, 196

“hole,” 9, 164, 210

“hookup” culture, 216

Horney, Karen, 176

hospital birthing environments, 31–32

House of Mirth, The
(Wharton), 44–45, 287

How to Do Things with Words
(Austin), 187

hugs (hugging), 292–93

Human Sexual Response
(Masters and Johnson), 38–39, 77, 78–79, 181

Hume, Leslie Parker, 146–47

Hunt, Matthew, 196

hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD), 80–82

hypochondria, 97

hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA), 104

hypothalamus, 37, 288, 289

I

Ibrahim, Samira, 200–201

Ideal Marriage
(van de Velde), 159–60

“If You See My Rooster” (song), 171–72

“I’ll Keep Sittin’ on It (If I Can’t Sell It)” (song), 174–75

impotence, and porn use, 218–25

Inanna, 126–27

“I Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl” (song), 172–73

Inés of My Soul
(Allende), 46

infertility, 295

interconnectedness, 5, 21, 47–48

Intercourse
(Dworkin), 183

International Rescue Committee (IRC), 89–93

Islam, 241–43

J

James, E. L., 316

James, Lisa, 100

James, William, 7, 8

Jane Eyre
(Brontë), 72, 285, 315, 317

Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Company,
188

Jethá, Cacilda, 2, 222

Johnson, Lil, 170–71

Johnson, Virginia, 38–39, 77, 78–79, 181

jokes (joking), 188–89, 205–6

Jong, Erica, 178–79, 183

Joy of Sex, The
(Comfort), 177, 181–82

Judeo-Christianity, 127–28, 130–40

K

Kali, Devadatta, 125

Kalra, Sanjay, 63

Kent, Tami Lynn, 100, 101

Keyes, Marian, 214

King Lear
(Shakespeare), 134–37

Kocur, Basil, 228–29

Koedt, Anne, 77–78, 177

Komisaruk, Barry R., 39, 67–68, 78, 115, 288, 328

Krafft-Ebing, Richard von, 155–56

Kwan Yin, 20

L

labiaplasty, 228–29

lactation, 31, 32–33, 62

Lady Chatterley’s Lover
(Lawrence), 164–65, 187

Laqueur, Thomas, 130, 139, 140

Laumann, Edward O., 81

Lawrence, D. H., 164–65

Leaves of Grass
(Whitman), 162

Lee, Spike, 277

lesbian and bisexual women, 6, 69, 274–75

LeVay, Simon, 70

Leviticus, 131

Lewes, George, 45

Lewis-Hasteley, Helen, 201

“liberated” vagina, 159–84

in blues music, 168–76

self-defining vagina of the Second Wave, 176–82

transcendentalism vs. “just pussy,” 165–68

libertarianism, sexual, 181–82

libido, female, 56, 57, 59, 60, 81, 83, 233, 294, 295.
See also
arousal, female

Light, Kathleen, 303–4, 306

lighting, for lovemaking, 277–83

Lightwoman, Leora, 351
n

Linden, David J., 58, 62

listening, 299–302

literary representations of the vagina.
See
cultural meaning and representations of vagina

lock hospitals, 150

lordosis, 49, 192, 326

loss of self, 44, 72–73, 283–88

Lousada, Mike, 204, 257–68, 307, 309

traumatized vagina and, 115–23, 194

yoni massage, 117–18, 122–23, 258–68, 271–72, 297

lovemaking

author’s spinal injury and, 13–15, 17–18, 20–21

behaviors and practices for.
See
Goddess Array

goal-oriented model of, 24, 35, 36, 79, 215

Lowell, Amy, 164

Lummaa, Virpi, 291

luteinizing hormones, 293–94

M

McCall, K. M., 58

McDowell, Ephraim, 145

McEwan, Ian, 13

MacKinnon, Catharine, 226

McMahon, Arthur Whittier, 43

Madonna, 329

Magon, Navneet, 63

Mah, K., 284–85, 354
n

Male Brain, The
(Brizendine), 300

Man Up, 92

Married Women’s Property Acts, 143

massage

sacred spot, 243–56, 278, 309

yoni, 115–18, 258–67, 271–72

Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff, 147

Masters, William H., 38–39, 77, 78–79, 181

masturbation, female, 68–69, 178

porn and, 226–29

Victorian era and, 144, 147–49

masturbation, male, and porn use, 217–21

“Mathilde” (Nin), 166

matriarchy, 125–26

Mayer, John, 215

meat, slang term for vagina, 210–12

medicalization, 141–42, 145–49

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
(Cleland), 143, 230

Memphis Minnie, 171–72

Meston, Cindy, 28, 34, 58, 102–3, 104, 203, 322, 324

Metamorphoses
(Ovid), 129

midwifery, 32, 145–46

Miles, Rosalind, 126

Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 161–62, 180

Miller, Henry, 163–64, 164, 166–68, 209–10

Millett, Kate, 89, 187, 196

Mill on the Floss, The
(Eliot), 42, 72, 152–53, 285

Minoans, 127

Misconceptions
(Wolf), 24, 31–32, 33

Mishnah, 131

misophonia, 98

Mitchell, Margaret, 315

Modernism, 159–84

the blues vagina, 168–76

self-defining vagina of the Second Wave, 176–82

transcendentalism or “just pussy,” 165–68

monotheism, 127–28, 130–31

Morgan, Marabel, 177, 325

mouth of the cervix, 18, 67–68, 78

Ms.
(magazine), 178

mucous membrane (mucosa), 23, 117

Muir, Caroline, 243, 249–56, 278

Muir, Charles, 116, 243–44, 249–50, 278

multisystem dysregulation, 190, 198, 203, 252

Muscio, Inga, 184

My Secret Garden
(Friday), 316

Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm
(Koedt), 77, 177

N

naming the vagina, 187–233.
See also
slang terms for the vagina

bad stress and, 190–94

hostile language and sexual harassment, 188–90, 194–202

joking and, 188–89, 205–6

pornography and, 215–33

nasal oxytocin sprays, 62

National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, 99

Natural Philosophy of Love, The
(De Gourmont), 163

Nelson, Kevin, 286

Netter, Frank, 15

Netter images, 15–16, 23–24, 37

Neumann, Erich, 128

neural compression, 17–18, 20–21

neuronal NOS (nNOS), 191–93

New Woman, 146, 155, 157, 162, 164–65

New York
(magazine), 218

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 182

Nin, Anaïs, 41–42, 78, 165–68, 209–10

nipples, 32, 34, 241, 257, 320–21

Nisbett, Richard E., 206

nitric oxide (NO), 191–93

norepinephrine, 58, 103, 113

North Country
(movie), 188

nymphomania, 155–56

Nymphomania: A History
(Groneman), 148–49

O

Obscene Publications Act, 143

Offen, Karen M., 146–47

O’Keeffe, Georgia, 41, 43, 45–46, 161, 180

onstage orgasm, 49–51

opioids, 8, 56, 60–61, 63–64

orgasm, female, 77–79, 283–88.
See also
clitoral orgasm; vaginal orgasm

aesthetic surroundings and, 278

ANS and, 27–31

confidence, creativity and, 47–48, 50–54

female disorders and, 80–82

feminist movement and, 176–80

finding her “sacred spot,” 307–11

Freud and, 156–57

neural wiring and, 14, 16, 18–20, 24–25

opioid release and, 8, 56, 60

sexual centers and, 67–73, 176–77

“showers of stars,” 327–28

yoni massage and, 117–18, 265–67

orgasm, male, 265, 285, 307

orgasmic trance state, 283–88

Othello
(Shakespeare), 134–35