Our vaginas are not our own. And our very language speaks to our agrarian heritage and is inextricably entwined with our sexual selves, as if to suggest there is no escape. A woman who is having sex with a man is “getting ploughed” by him. And one who wants to be in charge of her own sexual destiny, who refuses to submit to the law of the plough—that she stay home, that she be monogamous, that she be dependent—is a ho (or is she a hoe?).
