By Carolanne Wright
Contributing Writer for Wake Up World
“To understand the vagina properly is to realize that it is not only coextensive with the female brain, but is also, essentially, part of the female soul.” ~ Naomi Wolf
As a culture, we typically don’t view female anatomy as something intricately linked with creativity, power, drive, focus, courage or motivation. Either it’s something to be shamed through religious traditions or exploited with pornography, advertising and the media at large. Even so, the 1960’s saw a movement towards accepting and admiring the female form as “goddess.” We still see small pockets of it today. And the idea of the “muse” has a long history of inspiring some of the greatest art known to man.
Up until this point, however, most of the glorification of the female body has dealt squarely in the realm of external beauty. Author Naomi Wolf believes this stance is severely limited, and in her book “Vagina: A New Biography“, she challenges some of our most ingrained assumptions about feminine sexuality and form, revealing how a woman’s bodily experience has far reaching influence over every aspect of life.
