I read this quotation in a New York Magazine profile: "When women use the word pussy, it sets them free. They flush, they get all crazy. They feel all wild. It snaps a woman into her sassiness." This is a provocative and exciting concept. May I ask you to expand on it a bit?
Regina Thomashaur: Yes. As the Bible says, "In the beginning was the Word…" What we don't name, does not exist. Most women grow up with no name for the heart and soul of their womanhood. They grow up having their genitals called nothing, or "down there" or some odd nickname. The worst are the "progressive" women who got taught to use the word "vagina" (which means sheath, you know, like, for the sword), a term that does not include any of the exterior genitalia. So we have a world full of women who have grown up alienated from their essential sensual nature, because they have never even had a name for it. We have, basically, a world where women have been taught to be passive receptacles, rather than full, powerful sensual citizens with proud ownership of their bodies and control over their pleasurable experience. Read more…
