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The laughing vagina

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As Naomi Wolf walked to the dais wearing a red dress, an elderly man seated on the back row showed a V-sign to his companion. Perhaps, what he meant was not victory. Naomi was going to talk about an important but overlooked connection between vagina and mind in female sexuality. The author of the "Vagina: A New Biography" moved freely around the dais with a microphone in her hand, challenging the traditional ethos associated with vagina. In ‘Vagina’, Naomi used research by Concordia psychology professor Jim Pfaus to study the complex subject of female sexuality. As she began to speak about sexuality, words like ‘vagina’, ‘orgasm’ flew one after the other. A mother soon left the hall with her two teenaged sons. But a man who sat on the back row with his daughter was cool. The little one was too young to understand anything from the speech. With a notebook in hand, he tried to write down points. Did ‘vagina’ first appear as ‘china’ in his notebook? Women ou