A vagina traumatizada

Na segunda parte do livro da Naomi Wolf ela faz uma incursão à história da vagina. Nas próprias palavras da autora: da conquista ao controlo. 

Começa por falar da vagina traumatizada, depois da vagina como inicialmente sagrada, passa para a vagina na era vitoriana relacionada com a medicação e a subjugação, para terminar com a vagina 'libertada' na era do modernismo. Os excertos que se seguem referem-se à vagina traumatizada. 

'Just as good sexual experience in the vagina drives joy and creativity into the female brain, the obverse is also true, due to the same neural pathways: the traumatized vagina, the abused vagina, the vagina that is part of a neural network that is being neglected by a withholding or sexually selfish mate - literally cannot effectively condition the female brain with the chemicals that constitute the emotions of confidence, courage, connection, and joy' (p.93)

'Rape is part of the standard toolkit in the deployment of genocidal army tactics. This insight allow us to understand that many men who rape - and perhaps most men who rape in war - are not doing this as a function of personal perversion. Understood in this way, rape is instrumental. Rape is a strategy of actual physical and psychological control of women, traumatizing via the vagina as a way to imprint the consequences of trauma in the female brain.

If we understand this, we understand that what happens to a woman's vagina is far more important, for better and for worse, than we have realized' (p.99)