Vagina Quotes

“Rape and sexual assault ... should be understood not just as a form of forced sex, they should also be understood as as a form of injury to the brain and body, and even as a variant of castration.”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina: A New Biography

“Every woman is wired differently. Some women's nerves branch more in the vagina; other women's nerves branch more in the clitoris. Some branch a great deal in the perineum, or at the mouth of the cervix. That accounts for some of the differences in female sexual response.”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina: A New Biography

“Many of the signals that either stoke or diminish female desire have to do with the female brain's question: Is it safe here?”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina: A New Biography

“The sexual revolutionaries of the 1960s, including advocates for 'adult' material such as Hugh Hefner and Al Goldstein, represented porn to us as a great social radicalizer. But a nation of masturbating people who are looking at screens rather than at one another - who are consuming sex like any other product and who are rewiring their brains to find less and less abandon and joy in one another's arms, and to bond more and more with pixels - is a subjugated, not a liberated, population.”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina: A New Biography

“Women are not wrong if they react instinctively – often jealously – against their partner’s interest in porn, since pornography is actually, neurologically, a woman’s destructive rival for her man’s sexual capabilities.”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina: A New Biography

“Women are told for so long that our feelings—our internal sensations of pain, pleasure, joy, sadness, or anger—are too much, or wrong, or bad. So eventually we can’t stop thinking and thinking about these problems, trying to think them out, but we stop feeling our feelings about them.”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina: Revised and Updated

“what I saw as the negative effect on women’s minds of such mundane “tracking” activities as calorie counting, I had sensed that the reason so many tasks women are expected to do in society involve this kind of thinking (e.g. scanning, list making, judging themselves critically, “measuring up”) had something to do with the suppressive effect this kind of thinking has on other, bolder kinds of intellectual or emotional leaps.”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina: Revised and Updated

“Dopamine can be read as the ultimate feminist chemical in the female brain.”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina: Revised and Updated

“Let me use a second metaphor. Imagine that you found a tangle of seaweed on the edge of the shore and lifted it. The heaviest parts rest on the sand in a mesh, but some skeins extend vertically. This neural network is shaped like that: it looks like a tangled skein of a hundred thousand golden threads that has been drawn upward. The mass of it gathers in the pelvis, but strands from the same network extend upward to the spinal cord and brain.”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina: Revised and Updated

“Porn puts people to sleep, conceptually and politically as well as erotically.”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina: A New Biography

“The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enough for women.”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina: A New Biography

“Among the many incredible things about your incredible pelvic nerve and its lovely multiple branches is that, as we saw, it is completely unique for every individual woman on earth—no two women are alike.”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina: Revised and Updated

“The vulva, clitoris, and vagina are actually best understood as the surface of an ocean that is shot through with vibrant networks of underwater lightning—intricate and fragile, individually varied neural pathways.”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina: Revised and Updated

“Porn, it turns out, eventually takes the sexiness - that is, the wildness - out of sex.”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina: A New Biography

“when some of the neural “lights” in question have been switched off by injury, the outcome can be connected to a form of generalized depression, or what Dr. Jim Pfaus of Concordia University calls “anhedonia”—a state of pleasurelessness, bleakness, or grayness, in perceptions of the world.”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina: Revised and Updated

“Stress affects each gender differently. In a kind of tragic misalignment, during a fight men tend to get “flooded” with stress hormones in a way that leads them to long to shut down, withdraw, and detach—the “flight or fight” response to adrenaline—in order to regain neuroendocrine equilibrium; whereas women react to the same stress by needing to talk more and connect more—the “tend and befriend” response, which lowers their own stress levels.”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina: A New Biography

“An essential paradox of the female condition is that for women to really be free, we have to understand the ways in which nature designed us to be attached to and dependent upon love, connection, intimacy, and the right kind of Eros in the hands of the right kind of man or woman.”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina: A New Biography

“… todo lo neurológico es real, y además también puede estar en nuestra cabeza.”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina: A New Biography

“sexual response is connected to and in turn generates a larger sense of pleasure, meaning, and interest in the world,”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina: Revised and Updated

“Nuevos estudios, como hemos visto, muestran que el sistema nervioso autónomo en las mujeres está directamente conectado a la funcionalidad óptima de la excitación sexual en el tejido vaginal, a la circulación y a la propia lubricación, razón por la cual las amenazas verbales o las palabras de admiración o confianza pueden afectar directamente al funcionamiento sexual de la vagina.”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina

“medida que el judaísmo se fue alejando de sus antecedentes sumerios, todos los aspectos del culto a la diosa se transformaron poco a poco en algo negativo, y la nueva y más joven religión trató de que sus seguidores se centraran en una versión masculina del dios único.”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina

“Siempre que exista un problema, del tipo que sea, en la zona vulvovaginal, eso afectará a todo el sentido del yo.”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina

“¿O puede que la sostenida presencia cultural de la violación también tenga que ver, o incluso solo tenga que ver, con reprogramar a las mujeres a un nivel físico básico para que sean menos valientes, menos seguras y menos fuertes en otros sentidos y para que durante el resto de su vida, potencialmente, tengan un sentido del yo menos estable?”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina

“La violación es una estrategia para el control real físico y psicológico de las mujeres, porque produciendo el trauma a través de la vagina se imprimen las consecuencias del trauma en el cerebro femenino.”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina

“Pero si lo que se pretende es destrozar a una mujer psicológicamente, lo eficaz es ejercer violencia en su vagina. Su espíritu se doblegará más deprisa y más profundamente que si tan solo se la pega –debido a la vulnerabilidad de la vagina como mediadora de la consciencia–. El trauma en la vagina deja una profunda huella en el cerebro femenino, lo cual condiciona e influye en el resto de su cuerpo y de su mente.”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina

“Esta conexión biológica y evolutiva en las mujeres entre un posible estado de éxtasis y la seguridad emocional tiene implicaciones que no pueden soportar mucha presión. El estado de relajación facilita la excitación femenina.”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina

“Entender bien la vagina significa darse cuenta, no solo de su íntima relación con el cerebro humano, sino también, y de un modo esencial, con el alma femenina.”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina

“romantic love has three different chemical components: lust, composed of androgens and estrogens; attraction, driven by high dopamine and norepinephrine levels and low serotonin (this accounts for mood swings in early courtship); and finally, attachment, made up of oxytocin and vasopressin. And all these mood-altering chemicals can possibly become higher, because of their multiorgasmic potential, in some women than in most men.”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina: A New Biography