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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

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