vagina
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Mom Vagina
When the physical therapist explains the electric dildo she holds in her hand will reset the nerve endings in my vagina so I won’t need to pee every hour, I say, “Get it in me and let’s go.”
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: We Be Bleeding
It will be red like your neighbor’s convertible. And like that convertible, there will be a spreading open, an exposure of vulnerable flesh.
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Conceptualizing the Vagina
At Lit Hub, Dr. Fay Bound Alberti shares an excerpt of her new book, This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture, exploring the cultural understandings and depictions of female genitalia from Shakespeare’s “No thing” to Jamie McCartney’s The…
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Frigid
My first gynecologist tells me that my vagina is on the smaller side of the normal range. I use this as a justification for why, at eighteen, I still can’t get a tampon in more than a quarter of an…
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What Do We Call It?
Michigan state Rep. Lisa Brown used the word “vagina” while speaking on the House floor yesterday against a bill restricting abortions. Scandalized House Republicans still aren’t over it: Brown was rebuked and then barred from speaking in a debate on…
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BAD MOMMY: The Truth About Motherhood! blah, blah, blah
In case you missed it, the other day Oprah did a show about moms “breaking the silence” about motherhood. Moms talked about their secret lives and feelings. They talked about embarrassing incidents mainly involving their children’s bodily fluids. I don’t know.…
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BAD MOMMY BLOG: Happy Valentine’s Day—I Give You My Vagina
Within one minute of meeting my waxer I am on a bed, naked from the waist down and her hand is on my vagina. I’m trying to think of something to say, but all that comes to mind is: “So,…
