The Vagina Dentata Next Door.

Vagina Dentata is an age-old myth, with the phrase literally translated from Latin to mean "toothed vagina," and aside from the fact that women do not actually suffer from Vagina Dentata, the impact and the fear it has led to in certain cultures is present and correlates directly with attitudes toward women - and our cunts - in Western culture, even today.

The myth of toothed vulvas is often associated with castration-anxiety in men - with charming sexist fascists like Freud claiming that, "Probably no male human being is spared the terrifying shock of threatened castration at the sight of the female genitals," to which I can aptly reply, "Probably no female human being is spared the overwhelming, irrepressible urge to laugh at the sight of the male genitals," but that's another topic altogether - and the myth has its roots in folklore throughout the world. In the modern sense, Vagina Dentata has less to do with dental-related mutation, and is viewed more so as a cautionary tale, warning men of the dangers of exercising promiscuity and sleeping with strange women. It seems clear to me that human males probably have thoughts other than castration when confronted with a naked woman. The outcome is perhaps less clear concerning human females and the urge to burst into a lengthy fit of giggles when confronted with a naked man.

Few modern psychoanalysts would agree with Freud about the prevalence of the Vagina Dentata image, and the fear of castration it may invoke unto the psyches of contemporary men. There are, however, a number of scholars, critics, feminists, and analysts that have argued that the prevalence of the image - both in world-mythology and, as they postulate, in the male psyche itself - is an indication of a very deeply-rooted hatred and fear of women, and vulvas in general. Additionally, many aspects of many societies, including modern ones, and Western ones, reflect such an attitude to the feminine.

The vulva - or "cunt," as I prefer to call it - is so undeniably feminine; it is probably the most significant symbol of females and femininity, and yet, many of the cultural stigmas that women face are centered around our vulvas.


The first I'd like to point out is the liberal and often erroneous abuse of the word "vagina." I don't like it, I refuse to say it (unless I'm referring to the actual vagina), and I have no problem educating people about its true meaning, and why it is not only inappropriate to say, but infuriating, as well.


A vagina is a narrow canal inside of a vulva; contrary to what people may think, the word "vagina" in NO way includes the clitoris, the labia, or any of the nerve-endings that are the primary source of sexual stimulation and pleasure for most cisgendered women. For this reason, it is inappropriate and downright criminal to refer to a woman's vulva/cunt as simply a "vagina."


I've said it before, and I'll say it until I'm dead and blue - it is absolutely infuriating to find out that women are still not having orgasms when they have sex with men. It's infuriating that women feel the need to fake orgasms and reward a man by feeding his ego for amazing sex that she didn't get, when he did little else besides use her body for his own gratification, because she's afraid to tell him she's not even CLOSE to having an orgasm. It's infuriating that men don't understand why a woman can't have an orgasm after a few minutes in the missionary position with stimulation that's only good for him. It's infuriating that women are reticent with regard to discussing what they want done during sex, because we're all socially-conditioned to believe that we're not supposed to enjoy sex, that sex is for men, and that we exist solely to please them. It's infuriating that there are still some men who refuse to give cunnilingus, but you can bet your sweet, deep-fried ass that these same men expect twenty-minute blowjobs from the women they refuse to go down on. It's infuriating that men have an alarming rate of impotent behavior when their wives/girlfriends/female lovers are the ones to initiate sex or share fantasies or inform them of something that she'd like to try/wants him to do, because it reminds him that she's a FULL human being with needs and desires and fantasies, and it actually TURNS MEN OFF to know that.

FUCK. That makes me SO fucking mad.

Secondly, menstruation.

Menstruation is a natural process - in direct correlation with the phases of the moon, Inga Muscio insists - during which, on a monthly scale, our uterine walls shed their lining, and our unfertilized eggs are discarded from our bodies. It's how our bodies are made. So how come we see birth control commercials where one of the largest selling-points is that we could shorten the life-span of each period, and only have four a year? Why is society determined to repress this natural function? Why are there commercials with conventionally-beautiful, racially-ambiguous, smiling and dancing women who insist that "four periods a year" is a GOOD thing for us, and why do men cast such women in these commercials to try to trick us into believing it was OUR idea?


I'll tell you why. Because it's NOT good for us. It's good for men. It's good for men who deem us irrational, overly-emotional, whiny, and incapable of making decisions because of our NATURAL uterus-shedding process. Birth control pills are horrible for our bodies, cause heart attacks and blood-clots and high blood-pressure, and yet, we're supposed to be solely responsible for birth control, since we're the ones who get pregnant. Not that men are the ones who, y'know, do the impregnating. It's all-too-inconvenient for men to take five seconds to open and slip on a condom, and it might dull his sensitivity an infinitesimal amount. Nevermind that the pill creates serious health-risks and has the capacity to seriously ENDANGER OUR LIVES, with certain brands like Yaz and the patch not only endangering, but taking the lives of several women.


As the great Inga Muscio said in "Cunt: A Declaration of Independence": "Men who refuse to wear a condom deserve to be fucked only by men who refuse to wear condoms." I absolutely agree, and any man who tells me that I should "get on the pill" can just GET. THE FUCK. OUT.


In that same vein of menstruation: Ever notice how it's called the "feminine hygiene" aisle? Implying, of course, that cunts are unclean and messy and smelly and a source of shame and humiliation for women, and that we must do all we can to conceal our "odor" and hide the fact that we're bleeding. So, scented creams, and "feminine wash" that throws off your PH balance, and home-bikini-wax kits, and special cunt supplies exist to make us feel BAD for shedding our uterine walls, and having a natural smell, and growing hair like NORMAL ADULT HUMANS DO.

And, I'm sorry, but what's so fucking clean about dicks?

You never see any floral-scented jock-straps, or Hershey Squirt 'n Skidmark Protection Pads, or fruit-flavored ball-deodorants, or baby-powder-fresh penis-wipes, or rose-scented dick-gels, or padded cock 'n ball razors, or any fucking "masculine hygiene" aisles in Anystore, USA, though I've heard tell of serious demand for such products.

In all seriousness, I can only think of one reason cunts are so viciously hated in our society; only one reason things like Vagina Dentata exists.

Because straight men, almost without exception, hate women. They hate everything we are, every function our bodies have, they hate taking any significant amount of extra time to please us in bed, they hate everything that comes out of our mouths and spend time training themselves to set up a mental-blockade so that they don't have to listen to us, and they despise everything we think and feel and desire and dream of. I've heard people say that it's kind of funny how gay men seem to like women better than straight men do, and you know what? It's a sad - but eerily accurate - reality.

Cunts are no exception to the rule. I think it's devastatingly clear that straight men spend so much time trying to fuck women, and yet, they hate our cunts so much. They hate our cunts because, after they're done fucking us, they have to accept the fact that our cunts serve a purpose other than granting them pleasure. They also have to accept that we have sexual needs, too. They have to accept that our bodies - and our cunts - do not belong to them, and that they are not entitled to anything we don't want to give.

Men's hatred of cunts is exactly why myths like Vagina Dentata exist.

Men hate cunts because they're beautiful and complex and mysterious. They represent power and femininity and life. The Vagina Dentata encompasses that fear and hatred OF everything feminine sexuality represents - it paints the female sexuality as voracious, insatiable, enigmatic, unknowable, cold, instrumental, decapacitating, dangerous, predatory, stifling, and engulfing. It represents a testament to male weakness and female power.

The Vagina Dentata and the attitudes it perpetuates in society are all a direct consequence of the way human sexuality is viewed in society; the function of the male orgasm and its superior status in culture; the way the male orgasm is the ultimate sexual paradigm, and all acts of sexual expression and erotic motif and encounter are inferior unless they live up to it.

There are potentially dozens of subjects that I could cover about Vagina Dentata, and the impact it has had on the mentality of modern cultures, but in the end, I would be talking in circles, because it all boils down to a single devastating reality:

It epitomizes and perpetuates the sheer and simple cuntfear that infects our culture every single day.