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Sex has been mysterious for most of recorded history. Freud had people believeing that phallic symbols abounded and women were plagued with penis envy. But one of the more dramatic sexual myths was the one that shouted, "Vaginas have teeth."
It's laughable now, but it wasn't when it was floating about.
From msnbc.com: "Rachel Maines, visiting scholar in Cornell University’s Department of Science and Technology Studies and author of 'The Technology of Orgasm: Hysteria, Vibrators and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction.' 'I mean, the vagina dentata [vagina with teeth]? If there was ever a male paranoid fantasy, that was it.'"
"The idea of a vagina with teeth dates as far back as Greek mythology and is rooted in the idea that the female body has hidden, dangerous secrets and that a man who has sex with a woman may risk castration."
One advice manual warned that girls who masturbated would be flat-chested. And there was one sexual neurosis that Freud treated with cocaine--probably from his own stash.
Sexual myths come and go, and if we live in a sexual repressed time, there will be many more myths emerging. In a more sexually expressive time, the myths tend to die out.
Read the article and you'll have a few laughs. And just be grateful that vaginas don't have teeth.
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