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Friday, October 18, 2002And yet, the V-zone, as the authors of this excellent manual put it, is something that many women have misguided notions about. Too often, they merely walk away from their physicians' offices with tubes of cream or antibiotic pills — and sometimes without a clear diagnosis. "Vagina is hardly a household word," writes Dr. Stewart, a veteran gynecologist who operates a renowned "vulvar specialty" service in Boston. "Vulva and clitoris might as well belong to another language. They are blushers, vaguely subversive, not ready for prime time." There are other parts of the body that are equal blushers - the anus, and the penis for example - but no one’s writing books about them. And, although I’ve known men who are little more than walking bags of testosterone, there are no books or plays whose theme it is to define men by their sexual organs. (Puppetry of the Penis doesn’t count.) Of course, nothing sells like titillation, and although the V Book masquerades as a book on women’s health, it really is nothing more than titillation: Her book has no such constraints. Covering everything from pap tests to pain, vibrators to the existence of the G spot to ranges of absorbency (in grams) in tampons, it explores the basics of "V-Health" as candidly as comfortably as "The Vagina Monologues" publicized the vagina. Sisters! We are not defined by our vaginas. We are not empty vessels. posted by Sydney on 10/18/2002 07:15:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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