The Vagina Bible

shame

• There's a lot of money in vaginal shame.

  VBV-015

• For every woman told she is too wet, too dry, too gross, too loose, too tight, too bloody, or too smelly. This book is for you.

  VBV-002

obedience-and-authority

• More than 50 percent of women who clean intravaginally do so encouraged by their sexual partner; 77 percent of women aged 18–25 washed inside because their partner wanted it.

  VBV-005

• Some women are told by male partners that vaginal cleaning is a requirement—implied, a direct request, or even an order.

  VBV-014

embodiment

• There is a culture of silence about aging vulvas and vaginas. Society wants us to be doting grandmothers and eccentric detectives.

  VBV-008

• I have often wondered if normalizing a practice that made sex painful for women was an invisible chastity belt.

  VBV-004