The Story of V: Opening Pandora's Box Book

It is the seat of female sexual pleasure, the passage for both the creation and the birth of humankind, and the channel for menstrual blood. Yet we know less about the vagina ? its structure and function ? than we do about any other organ of the human body. For the first time in history, however, scientists are making a concerted effort to discover what it is, how it works and what it does. THE STORY OF V explores what science can now tell us about the female genitalia as well as providing a fascinating cultural history of our perceptions and mis-conceptions. More than two millennia of misinformation have resulted in a culture where we hold back from mentioning the vagina, where it is most commonly viewed as pornographic and where scientists are unsure about the nature of its role in sexual pleasure and sexual reproduction. Of all the organs of the human body, the vagina remains the most clouded in mystery, myth and superstition. In the past, medicine may have misrepresented female sexual anatomy, but, as this book aims to show, science is at last beginning to reveal its remarkable complexities in a more positive light.Read More