Sep 29 2013 Fb status: vagina as co-indicator

I rather wish the author hadn't brought the word "soul" into it, and I might reconstruct her basic assertion to say that the vagina is a *co-indicator* with the brain of historical and current stress/relaxation (fear/safety), but generally it seems quite accurate to my experience and my observations of the people around me.

Thank you to Neilstrom for this one:
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/09/23/naomi-wolf-vagina/

Those of you who have heard me talk about sex and/or gender roles will recognize my assertions about *feeling safe* are here scientifically (albeit confusingly) validated ... what's amazing is how many of us learn to function (or seem to function) *despite* how messed up society still is.

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• JC: Thank you for sharing this, Kirsten. So much good information here. I think the first part of the article helps explain why--as I have been told and as I have read--what is erotic for a woman can change from one day to the next, and why that should be respected. How wonderful it would be if this were required reading for both women and men in all colleges and universities!

  September 29 at 8:39am  · Like
• KR: JC -- or high school, frankly . I'm planning to teach my kids a lot deeper biology of female reproductive health than I ever got in school ... not least because I want none of them to ever think "hormones" make women dismissable : P. This article had a more positive-action spin I thought ... I could really see how to show "next positive steps" (rather than a more basic "don't be an ass, nor accept jerkishness from others" ... I always look for how to be part of the solution, not just part of the revolution ).
  September 29 at 2:06pm · Like · 1

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