Vagina (54 page)

biofeedback, 281

biological consciousness, 7

birth control.
See
contraception

Blackledge, Catherine, 2

Blank, Joani, 183

bliss, 8–9, 61, 263, 264

Block, Melissa, 46

Blucher, Ernst, 43–44

blues music, 168–76

body odors, male, 289–97

boredom, 318–20

Brady, Sally Ryder, 289

Brain in Love, The
(Amen), 69–70, 297

brain science, 5, 8, 58–60, 68–70, 195, 207, 257, 271, 283–86, 289–90, 297–98

Brain That Changes Itself, The
(Doidge), 223

brain-vagina connection, 2–5, 37–39, 47–48, 113–14.
See also
autonomic nervous system

dopamine and, 55–60

rape and, 96–103

Braun, Gustav, 141

breast nipples, 32, 34, 241, 257, 320–21

breathing exercises, 260–61

Briggs, Jimmie, 92, 112

Brizendine, Louann, 277–78, 300

Brody, Stuart, 309

Brontë, Charlotte, 45, 72, 153–54, 285, 315

Brontë, Emily, 315

Brown, Isaac Baker, 147

Brown, Ruth, 175

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 45, 162

Brownmiller, Susan, 89

Buckingham, Marcus, 238–39

Buss, David, 322, 324

Butler, Josephine, 151

Byatt, A. S., 42

Byford, W. H., 145

C

Cadmus, 129

Cakuls, Katrine, 100–101, 194

Caldwell, Christina, 196

Cambridge Women’s Pornography Collective, 312–13

candles, 277–83

Canterbury Tales, The
(Chaucer), 133

Carter, Bo, 173

castration anxiety, 156, 169

catecholamines, 34, 103, 192–95, 303

Celts, 128

cervix, 16, 23, 37, 68–70

mouth of the, 18, 67–68, 78

Chalice and the Blade, The
(Eisler), 125–26

chastity belts, 133, 134

chattiness, 14, 61–62

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 133

Chen, Denise, 289–90

Chicago, Judy, 179

childbirth, 24, 31–33

Chitrini-Yoni, 207

Chittenden, Maurice, 303–4

Chopin, Kate, 41, 44, 155, 285

Christianity, 128, 130–33

chronic health problems, and sexual assault, 98–106

Church Fathers, 131–33

Civilization and Its Discontents
(Freud), 8

Cleland, John, 143, 230–31

cliterodectomy, 114–15, 147

clitoral orgasm, 77–79, 280–82

role of neural wiring, 18–19

clitoris, 22–25, 28–29, 38, 48–49, 67–68

in history, 134, 139–40, 142, 145, 147, 156–57, 164–65, 168–69, 170, 176–78

sacred spot massage, 249, 251–54, 308–9

slang terms for, 160, 168–69, 170, 212

vagina dualism, 78–79, 156–57, 176–77

Coady, Deborah, 15–16, 18, 100, 105–6, 107, 111, 114, 252, 310

cocaine, 61

Cole, Jeffrey, 16–20

Columbus, Renaldus, 140

Comfort, Alex, 177, 181–82

communication, 34–35, 299–302

Compass of Pleasure, The
(Linden), 58, 62

condoms, 163, 322–25

confidence

dopamine and, 56–59, 61, 64

sex and creativity, 47–54

consciousness, female, 6–10.
See also
Goddess, the

Contagious Diseases Acts, 143, 150–51

contraception, 163, 291

conversion gait disorders, 95–98

Coolidge effect, 222

Corinne, Tee, 183

corsets, 149

cortisol, 99, 102, 104, 190

Council of Chalcedon, 132

Cowper, William, 140

creativity

confidence, sex and, 49–54

role of sexual awakening in, 41–46

vaginal injury and loss of, 112–13

cu,
197

cucumbers, 290

cuddling, 293

cultural meaning and representations of vagina, 125–84.
See also
naming the vagina

in ancient history, 125–30

in early Judeo-Christianity, 130–34

in Elizabethan Age, 134–40

in Islam, 241–43

in Modernism, 159–84

in Second Wave feminism, 176–82

in Victorianism, 141–57

cuniculus,
197–98

cunnilingus, 160, 198

cunt,
133, 135–36, 137, 195–98

Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
(Muscio), 184

“cuntini,” 199–200

Cupid’s Poisoned Arrow
(Robinson), 223, 224

D

Dalai Lama, 8, 9

dancing, 292–93

dangerous men, 314–18

Dark Ages, 132–33

“date nights,” 282–83

date rape, 105, 151–52, 189

Dawkins, Richard, 317

decadence, 155

de Contrecoeur, Claude, 58–59

degenerative spinal disease, 16–17

Degler, Carl, 146

De Gourmont, Remy, 163

degradation, 142, 143, 183, 222, 226

dehabituation programs, 224–26

Delta of Venus
(Nin), 78, 165–66

Demeter, 129

Democratic Republic of the Congo, 91–92

depression, 38, 57, 59, 107–10, 122

desensitization, 117–18, 217, 220, 221, 226–29, 254

desire, female, 5.
See also
arousal, female

epidemic of low, 80–84, 340
n

in history and literature, 42, 129–31, 142, 151–55, 169, 171, 173–74, 175, 180, 183, 240

Pfaus’s rat study on, 64–67, 296, 326–27

desire, male, and aggression, 183, 226–27

detach response, 121

diaphragms, 163

Dinner Party, The
(Chicago), 179

Dobson, Roger, 303–4

Dodson, Betty, 178, 237–38

Doidge, Norman, 223

Donne, John, 138–39

“Don’t You Feel My Leg” (song), 173–74

dopamine, 37, 55–62, 284–85

activation and, 29, 30, 55, 56–57, 59, 62, 223

pornography and, 219–20, 222–23

Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter, 161

dual heroes, 314–20

Dworkin, Andrea, 183, 212, 226

E

Eastern traditions.
See
Tantra; Taoism

Eberhardt, Isabelle, 55

Egerton, George, 155

Egypt

ancient mythology, 126–27, 197

Arab Spring, 200–201

Egyptiana, 162

Eisler, Riane, 125–26

ejaculation, female, 177, 180, 240, 250, 257, 280–82

ejaculation, male, 116, 218–20, 265, 322–25

“Elegy XIX” (Donne), 138–39

Eliot, George, 42, 45, 72, 152–53, 285

Eliot, T. S., 164

Elizabethan Age, 134–38, 206

Ellis, Havelock, 156

Emotional Intelligence
(Goleman), 8, 301–2

endothelial NOS (eNOS), 191–93

Ensler, Eve, 183–84

environmental setting, for lovemaking, 277–83

episiotomy, 24

erectile dysfunction, 218–25, 227–28

erotica, 180, 229, 316

Victorian, 230–32

estrogen, 58, 322

Evans, Arthur, 126

Eve, 127

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex
(Reuben), 181–82

evolution, 31, 69, 273–74, 306–7, 311–12, 315–16, 317

existential despair, and vulvodynia, 107–15

expressive aphasia, 99

eye-to-eye gazing, 297–99

F

Facebook questionnaire, 51–52

Fanny Hill
(Cleland), 143, 230

Farrow, Caroline, 201

Fear of Flying
(Jong), 178–79

Female Brain, The
(Brizendine), 277–78

Female Eunuch, The
(Greer), 178

Femalia
(Blank), 183

Feminine Mystique, The
(Friedan), 176

feminism (feminists), 61, 125–26, 151, 176–82, 237–39.
See also
Second Wave feminism;
specific feminists

Masters and Johnson and, 77

rape and, 89, 92–93

Feministing.com, 184

Ferrari, Nick, 196

fertility, 293–96

fertility figurines, 125–26

Few Figs from Thistles,
A (Millay), 162

Fifty Shades of Grey
(James), 316

“fight or flight” response, 34, 120–22, 302

Fish, Nancy, 107–14, 310

Fisher, Helen, 58, 69, 222, 273–74, 315–16, 317, 322, 357
n

Flannery, Jane, 159

flowers, 277–83

foreplay, 35–36, 77–78, 240–41

Foucault, Michel, 141

Freud, Sigmund, 8, 89, 129, 156–57, 164, 169, 176–77

Friday, Nancy, 316

Friedan, Betty, 176

Frigidity in Woman
(Stekels), 156–57

Fuller, Loie, 160–61, 180

Fullerton, Morton, 44–45, 63, 286–87

Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs
(Acton), 144, 146

Futures Without Violence, 100

G

Galen, 130, 133

Gansler, Laura Leedy, 188

Garelick, Rhonda, 161

Gaskin, Ina May, 32

gaze (gazing), 297–99

gender differences, 69–71

ANS and, 34–35

dopamine and, 60–61

pelvic nerve and, 23–24, 114, 194–95

verbal processing and, 300

Geography of Thought, The
(Nisbett), 206

Georgiadis, Janniko, 8, 30, 284–85, 288, 313

Germ, The
(magazine), 154

Gilgamesh,
126

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

“Goblin Market” (Rossetti), 42–43, 285

Goddess, the, 6–10

addressing woman as, 312–14

reclaiming the, 329–33

Goddess Array, 75–76, 239, 272–328

ANS and, 28, 75, 215

being boring or scary, 314–20

dimming the lights and relaxing her, 277–83

ejaculation, 322–25

finding her “sacred spot,” 307–11

gazing into her eyes, 297–99

helping her go into an orgasmic trance state, 283–88

hugging and cuddling her, 289–97

ignoring at your own peril, 325–27