The VAG talks...

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The VAG talks...

Oh! yes it talks, all the time, but do we women even listen to it, to even bother to pay attention to it, guess no, do we? We ignore it, afraid that it’s wrong, it’s something corrupted to know what your body consists of, we think that only the members of the opposite sex are allowed to talk to it and we have to ignore its cries...Well seems like we have been wrong all along. Seems we were living in some horrid fear of corrupting ourselves when that fear had no source. What we women needed was an eye opener and the eye opener came in the form of the play and then the book called the “THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES”.

I came across the book recently and turns out I was living in a mythical world with the truth about me all hidden.

The book broadens your horizons, takes away the fears you have and gives you an insight of the inner self. The term “VAGINA”, just to say the term or to whisper it, many women shy away, it kills away that fear or shyness and tells you that it’s no shame; it’s not shameful to talk about your VAGINA or even shout it out loud. It’s a beautiful thing which goes through a lot to get the other vaginas in this world.

The book discusses what many women go through and how they just kill their inner self because they can’t talk about it to anyone. It talks about sexual violence, abuse, child birth, rape and every possible thing the vagina can be exposed to.

Eve Ensler here writes about the different interviews with the old women, the rape victims, the child abuse victims, the lesbians, women unknown about their sexual poweress and a lot of confused women and in the end the conclusion shows that how ignorant we all are, how different we all think but never really know it because we have never discussed about it with anyone.

For every woman who thinks she is special and deserves an eye opener in her life, please do read this book and enlighten yourself. Let the monologues begin.

Vagina fact (from the book)

In the nineteenth century, girls who learned to develop orgasmic capacity by masturbation were regarded as medical problems. Often they were ‘treated’ or ‘corrected’ by amputation or cautery of the clitoris or ‘miniature chastity belts ‘, sewing the vaginal lips together to put the clitoris out of reach. And even castration by surgical removal of the ovaries. But there are no references in the medical literature to the surgical removal of testicles or the amputation of the penis to stop masturbation in boys.

In United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948 – on a five year old girl.

                                        -The Women’s Encyclopaedia of Myths and Secrets.

Author: Rati Agrawal | Published Feb 23, 2010 | 12:38 AM