Vagina (57 page)

“uppity woman,” 200

uterus, 23, 24, 31–33, 130, 146, 149

V

vacations, 294–95, 319–20

vagina, 22–23, 38, 68–70.
See also specific topics

use of term, 22, 209

vagina dentata, 128–29

vaginal canal, 22–23

vaginal fistulas, 88, 90–91, 97, 145

vaginal illiteracy, and pornography, 229–33

vaginal orgasm, 77–79, 280–82

role of neural wiring, 18–19

vaginal photometer, 274, 352
n

vaginal pulse, 102–3, 209, 274–76

vaginal pulse amplitude (VPA), 274, 352–53
n

vaginal trauma.
See
rape; traumatized vagina

Vagina Monologues, The
(play), 183–84

Vaginas: An Owner’s Manual
(Topp), 75–76

vaginismus, 100–106, 118–19, 121–22

vaginoplasty, 228–29

van de Velde, Theodore, 159–60

Varieties of Religious Experience, The
(James), 7, 8

vasopressin, 58

Venus figurines, 125, 126

verbal aggression, 188–90, 194–96, 201–2

verbal appreciation, 34–35, 311–14

vertigo, 94, 95, 104

Viagra, 223

vibrators, 68–69, 228–29, 254–55

Victorianism, 141–57

aestheticism, 155–56

erotica, 230–32

Freud and, 156–57

resistance, 152–54

the state vs. the “ bad” vagina, 150–52

Victorians, The
(Wilson), 150

Victorian Women
(Hellerstein, Hume, and Offen), 146–47

Villette
(Brontë), 153–54

virginity, 132, 216

virginity tests, 200

Virgin Mary, 122–24, 132

VPA (vaginal pulse amplitude), 274, 352–53
n

vulva, 22–23, 38

Vulvavelvet.com, 184

vulvodynia, 15, 106–15

W

Walter, Natasha, 201

war and rape, 89–93

Warnock, J. J., 81–82

Weiss, Petr, 309

Westland, Sarah, 196

Wharton, Edith, 44–45, 63, 180, 286–87

Wharton, Teddy, 44

Whipple, Beverly, 68, 177, 280–82, 328

White, Georgia, 174

Whitman, Walt, 161–62

Whitworth, Michael H., 163, 164

Why Women Have Sex
(Meston and Buss), 322, 324

Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers
(Sapolsky), 220–21, 224

Wilde, Dolly, 159

Wilde, Oscar, 155, 162

Wild Feminine
(Kent), 101

Wile, Douglas, 240–41

Williams, Zoe, 196

Willoughby, James, 123

Wilson, A. N., 150

Wilson, Gary, 223, 224

Wilson, Jacqueline Z., 196

witches (witchcraft), 134

Wizard of Oz, The
(movie), 21

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 45

Women in Love
(Lawrence), 165

Women’s History of the World, The
(Miles), 126

Woodhull Institute, 94–95

Woolf, Virginia, 209

words about the vagina.
See
naming the vagina; slang terms for the vagina

Wordsworth, William, 7–8

“wrongs of” narrative, 151–52

Wuthering Heights
(Brontë), 315

Wysocki, Charles, 295–96

Y

Yale University’s “Take Back the Night” event, 189

yoni massage, 115–18, 258–67, 271–72

Yoon, H., 101, 191–93, 203

YourBrainOnPorn.com, 223

Z

Zambaco, Démétrius Alexandre, 147–48

Zaviacic, Milan, 307–8

zipless fuck, 178–79

Photographic Insert

T
he innervation of the female pelvis: This illustration shows how the complex pelvic nerves in women branch from the spinal cord. [Oxford Designers & Illustrators]

T
he innervation of the male pelvis: This illustration shows how the complex pelvic nerves in women branch from the spinal cord. [Oxford Designers & Illustrators]

T
he Autonomic Nervous System: The lower right schematizes its relationship to the female pelvis. [Oxford Designers & Illustrators]

H
ow deficient and balanced dopamine levels affect the brain. [Marnia Robinson]

S
acred geometry: The
vesica piscis
is derived from the intersection of two circles signifying the overlap between the divine and the worldly.

T
he “mandorla” or divine feminine symbol is a
vesica piscis
that represents liminality–the meeting point between heaven and earth. A medieval mandorla showcasing the Virgin Mary enthroned in an almond-shaped frame.

O
ne of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s illustrations for the first edition of his sister Christina Rossetti’s 1862 poem “Goblin Market.” The pomegranate, always a feminine symbol in pre-Raphaelite iconography, is inaccurate as a literal rendition of a fruit, but is anatomically accurate.