Laura Lewin's ten-year-old daughter recently asked her "If there are seven billion people in the world and half have vaginas, then why is everyone so embarrassed to use that word?" She was right Why are we embarrassed to use that word? It has been over fifteen years since Eve Ensler's groundbreaking play The Vagina Monologues. The word vagina has been used increasingly in mainstream media. And just this past year a headline in the Los Angeles Times proclaimed "'Vagina, ' Once Unmentionable, Has Become a Fashionable Term." Yet while vagina the word is becoming less taboo, vagina the body part...
Laura Lewin's ten-year-old daughter recently asked her "If there are seven billion people in the world and half have vaginas, then why is everyone so ...