This Is How You Vagina: All About Your Vajayjay and Why You Probably Shouldn't Call It That
By Nicole E. Williams
The good things: packed with information but easy to read. Pretty much everything you'd want to know about why your vagina does what it does.
--There are diagrams and lists. Dr. Williams (no relation) answers questions ranging from silly to very serious. You'll learn about the historic origins of some ideas we still have. Turns out Gwyneth Paltrow and her vagina steaming would have been a big hit in ancient Egypt. The blending of clinical and popular information is great.
--The author gives easy tips for a happy, healthy vagina. These include ditching thongs and any cleansers other than gentle soap and water. Did you know Lysol used to be recommended for women to freshen up their vaginas? Yep. Eww.
The bad things: it bothers me when people anthropomorphize vaginas ad nauseum. Throughout the entire book we are told about what "she" likes and doesn't like. Who is "she"? Why, your vagina, of course. Weird.
--Dr. Williams misuses a few words but nothing outrageous and it's probably not even something most people would notice.
--The one thing that made me stop and question my sanity was her statement that Uncle Tom's Cabin is "a book on the defense of slavery." And she doesn't mean it contains characters who defend slavery, which is certainly true because the book presents the full spectrum of human feeling on slavery. She apparently means that Uncle Tom's Cabin--you know, the book many people credit with showing thousands of white Americans the evils of slavery and catalyzing abolition--defends slavery.
So read this book to learn about vaginas but maybe not to learn about literature. You'll have to read TIHYV to find out why it even came up in the first place.
I got my ebook free from Netgalley.
