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I'm just gonna ask you a few questions
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And just answer whatever you're
comfortable answering.
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Don't go any further than
you feel like going
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And if you want to add
something later on
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To a question i've asked you,
that's fine too.
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When was the first
time you saw it ?
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You know, it was sort of like
an accidental thing.
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There was like
a mirror on the floor,
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And i walked up and i was like,
what, what was that ?
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I have to go home and
do some research.
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I didn't look at myself
'til probably in college.
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I don't even say the
word to my ob-gyn.
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And i went to the library,
i'm sneaking in the library,
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Looking through the books,
and you know,
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Like i'm covering the book
with like something else.
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And then it's like,
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"admire it, it's
a beautiful flower,
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You know, it's like roses."
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. I'm like, we'r e not
looking at the same thing
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I took photos of it.
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I had a polaroid camera
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And i would go into the bathroom
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And take a picture.
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Are you embarrassed ?
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Yes.
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All those things are
kind of like secret.
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You know ?
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And it's not for, you know,
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It's like your own little joy.
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I realized there was no context
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In which women ever talk
about their vaginas.
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So, i just started casually
saying to friends of mine,
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What do you think
about your vagina ?
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What do you think ?
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and over the course
of about three to five years,
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I had interviewed over 200 women.
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How does it feel to
be talking about it ?
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Very strange.
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I think it's liberating,
but it's kind of funny too.
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Anxious, kind of nervous,
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. Not really sure of what
i'm gonna say
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I really thought it was gonna
be like, uncomfortable,
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But it's not.
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You make i t kind of easy.
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And everything every woman said
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, was more surprising,
outrageous, disturbing
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. Exciting than the next
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And one woman would say to me,
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Oh, you really need to talk to
so and so about her vagina,
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She has an amazing story.
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And she would say,
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, no, you need to talk to so
and so about her vagina
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She has...
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D and before i knew it,
i was really suck
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Down this vagina trail ,
and i couldn't get back.
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And i've been on the trail
for a long time
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And i don't think i'm getting
off it any time soon.
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Everything on the wall,
all of these were gifts
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Or photographs or things that
have found me
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Or have been given to me as
i traveled around the world.
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Well, first i'd like to
introduce vagina barbie,
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Complete with duck lips.
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A lovely...
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Vagina candle.
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This salad here...
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That's a vagina salad.
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This is a vulva puppet.
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They actually talk.
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There's a whole world of
vagina life out there,
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Which i find thrilling.
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So, when the show was
first done downtown,
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Guys would call up and say,
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Can i have tickets to
"the vagina dialogues" ?
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And women would call
up and say,
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Can i have tickets to
"the monologues" ?
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I've heard people call it
"the viagra chronicles."
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And there was this punk ticket taker,
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And she would say,
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"listen, if you can't say the name,
you can't come.
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Now, try again, try again."
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Thank you.
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I bet you're worried.
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I was worried.
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That's why i began this piece.
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I was worried about vaginas.
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, i was worried what we
think about vaginas
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And i was even more worried
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That we don't think about them.
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I was worried about my own vagina.
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It needed a context, a community,
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A culture of other vaginas.
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There is so much darkness and
secrecy surrounding them,
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Like the bermuda triangle,
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Nobody ever reports back from there.
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In the first place,
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It's not so easy to even
find your vagina.
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Women go days, weeks, months,
without looking at it.
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I interviewed
a high-powered businesswoman,
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She told me she didn't have time.
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Looking at your vagina she said,
is a full day's work.
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You've got to get down
there, on your back,
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In front of the mirror,
full-length preferred.
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You've got to get
in the perfect position,
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, with the perfect light
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Which then becomes shadowed
by the angle you're at.
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You're twisting your head up,
arching your back,
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It's exhausting.
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She was busy.
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She didn't have time.
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So, i decided to talk to women
about their vaginas.
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They began as casual
vagina interviews,
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And they turned
into vagina monologues.
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I talked with over 200 women.
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, i talked to younger women,
older women, married women
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Lesbians, single women,
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I talked to college professors,
corporate professionals,
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Actors, sex workers.
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I talked to
african-american women,
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Asian-american women,
hispanic women,
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Native-american women,
caucasian women,
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Jewish women.
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At first, women were a little shy,
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A little reluctant to talk.
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But once they got going,
you couldn't stop them.
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Women love to talk about
their vaginas, they do.
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They really do.
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Mainly because no one's
ever asked them before.
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Let's just start with
the word vagina.
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Vagina.
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It sounds like an infection at best.
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. Maybe a medical instrument
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"hurry, nurse, bring me the vagina."
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Vagina.
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Vagina.
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It doesn't matter how many times
you say the word,
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It never sounds like
a word you want to say.
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It's a completely ridiculous,
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Totally unsexy word.
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If you use it during sex,
trying to be politically correct
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You kill the act right there.
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I'm worried what we call
it and don't call it.
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In great neck, new york,
they call it a "pussycat".
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A woman told me there,
her mother used to tell her,
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"don't wear panties, dear,
underneath your pajamas,
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You need to air
out your pussycat."
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In westchester,
they call it a "pookie".
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In new jersey, a "twat".
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There's "powder box",
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A "poochi", a "poopi",
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A "pee-pee", a "poopalu",
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A "pooninana" and a "piche".
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There's "toadie", "dee-dee",
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"nishi", "dignity",
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"coochie snorcher",
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"cooter", "labbe",
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"gladys siegelman",
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"va",
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"wee-wee", "whorespot",
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"nappy dugout", "mongo",
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"monkey box", "pajama",
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"fannyboo", "mushmellow",
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"ghoulie", "possible",
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"tamale", "tottita", "connie",
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A "mimi" in miami,
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A "split knish" in philadelphia.
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And a "schmende" in the bronx.
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I am worried about vaginas.
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Steve !
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Vagina graduate !
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This is steve, this is steve.
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Steve just graduated from uvs,
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That's the university
of vaginal sciences.
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The most vagina friendly
guy in his class, okay ?
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Got the job, ya.
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This first monologue is
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Based on one woman's story,
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Pretty much the way i heard it,
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Although the subject of
this interview came up
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In every interview and
was often fraught.
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. The subject being hair
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I love hair.
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I mean...
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. Hair vagina, hair is a vagina,
the vagina is hair
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I like my hair, i'd like a
lot more hair actually.
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I'm a redhead and
everything's red.
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I mean, it's just red, red ,
red, red, red, red, red.
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I've never shaved the bikini line.
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I wear appropriate bathing
suits so that it covers,but,
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D i don't, you know,
i don't feel that i ha
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. To work on it cosmetically
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Because i've been afflicted
with hair from the time
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I was eight years old, on my vagina,
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I'm very curious what it would
feel like, to be hairless.
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I don't mean a haircut,
i mean, you know,
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It's not anything like crazy,
i mean, you know,
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I do it myself,
so how crazy can it be ?
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It's just like a normal...
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Nice, neat, you know, thing.
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Thought everybody did that, no ?
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You cannot love a vagina
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Unless you love hair.
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Many people do not love hair.
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My first and only husband hated hair.
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He said it was cluttered and dirty.
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He made me shave my vagina.
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It looked puffy,
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And exposed, like a little girl.
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This excited him.
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When he made love to my vagina,
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It felt the way a beard must feel.
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It felt good to scratch it, and painful,
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Like scratching a mosquito bite.
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There were screaming red bumps.
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It felt like it was on fire.
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I refused to shave it again.
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Then my husband had an affair.
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When we went to marital therapy,
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He said he screwed around
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Because i wouldn't
please him sexually,
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I wouldn't shave my vagina.
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The therapist had
a thick german accent,
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And she gasped
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Between sentences )
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To show her empathy.
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She asked me why i didn't want
to please my husband,
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Why i didn't want to shave my vagina.
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I told her i thought
it was weird.
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I felt little when my hair
was gone down there,
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And i couldn't help talking
in a baby voice.
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And even calamine lotion wouldn't
stop the irritation.
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She told me that marriage
was a compromise.
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I asked her if my
shaving my vagina
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Would stop my husband
from screwing around.
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I asked her if she had many
cases like this before.
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She told me that
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Questions diluted the process.
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She was sure it was
a good beginning,
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I just needed to jump in.
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This time, when we got home,
he got to shave my vagina.
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It was like a therapy bonus prize.
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He clipped it a few times,
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And there was a little
blood in the bathtub.
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He didn't notice,
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He was so excited shaving me.
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Then, later, when my husband
was pressing against me,
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I could feel his spiky sharpness
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Sticking into my naked exposed vagina.
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There was no protection.
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. There was no fluff
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N i realized the
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. That hair is there for a reason
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It's the leaf around the flower,
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The lawn around the house.
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You have to love hair in
order to love the vagina.
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. You can't pick the parts you want
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And besides...
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My husband, well...
258
00:13:04,563 --> 00:13:07,567
He never did stop screwing around.
259
00:13:11,372 --> 00:13:14,643
You know, i interviewed
a whole group of women
260
00:13:14,643 --> 00:13:16,245
Between 65 and 75.
261
00:13:16,646 --> 00:13:20,650
And that was definitely the
most poignant group.
262
00:13:20,650 --> 00:13:23,353
Mainly because i don't think
many women in that group
263
00:13:23,353 --> 00:13:26,057
Had ever had a vagina
interview before.
264
00:13:26,057 --> 00:13:28,861
This particular woman
was 72 years old,
265
00:13:29,362 --> 00:13:31,864
And she had never
seen her vagina.
266
00:13:31,864 --> 00:13:33,466
She'd washed it in
the shower and bath,
267
00:13:33,866 --> 00:13:36,269
, but never with conscious
intention or awareness
268
00:13:36,270 --> 00:13:37,972
And she'd never had an orgasm.
269
00:13:37,972 --> 00:13:39,674
When she was 72,
270
00:13:39,674 --> 00:13:41,577
She went to therapy for the first time,
271
00:13:41,977 --> 00:13:43,178
As we do in new york,
272
00:13:43,179 --> 00:13:44,880
And she worked with a wonderful therapist,
273
00:13:45,281 --> 00:13:48,051
Who got her to go home,
by herself.
274
00:13:48,052 --> 00:13:49,252
She told me she lit some candles,
275
00:13:49,753 --> 00:13:51,355
She played some music,
she took a bath.
276
00:13:51,355 --> 00:13:52,957
She got down with herself,
277
00:13:52,957 --> 00:13:54,559
And she told me it took
her over an hour
278
00:13:55,059 --> 00:13:56,662
Because she was arthritic,
279
00:13:56,662 --> 00:13:59,465
But when she finally found her clitoris,
280
00:13:59,465 --> 00:14:02,469
She said she cried.
281
00:14:02,469 --> 00:14:04,171
This is for her...
282
00:14:11,781 --> 00:14:14,283
Down there ?
283
00:14:14,283 --> 00:14:17,988
I haven't been down
there since 1953.
284
00:14:18,388 --> 00:14:19,356
No.
285
00:14:19,857 --> 00:14:22,360
No, it had nothing to
do with eisenhower.
286
00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:23,862
No.
287
00:14:23,862 --> 00:14:25,865
No, trust me, trust me, you don't
want to go down there,
288
00:14:25,865 --> 00:14:27,667
It's very damp, very clammy.
289
00:14:27,667 --> 00:14:30,670
Smell the mildew, gets in your
clothes, it's horrible.
290
00:14:30,670 --> 00:14:31,671
No.
291
00:14:32,172 --> 00:14:33,674
No, and there was no
accident down there,
292
00:14:33,674 --> 00:14:35,676
It didn't blow up or catch on fire.
293
00:14:35,676 --> 00:14:37,178
It wasn't so dramatic.
294
00:14:37,178 --> 00:14:39,181
What's a nice girl
like you going around
295
00:14:39,181 --> 00:14:41,684
Talking to old ladies about
their "down there's" for ?
296
00:14:41,684 --> 00:14:45,188
We didn't do this kind of
a thing when i was your age.
297
00:14:45,188 --> 00:14:47,191
Well...
298
00:14:47,191 --> 00:14:50,194
. There was this boy
299
00:14:50,194 --> 00:14:51,696
Oh, god.
300
00:14:51,696 --> 00:14:53,165
Andy.
301
00:14:53,165 --> 00:14:54,667
Andy leftkov.
302
00:14:55,168 --> 00:14:56,169
Oh, god.
303
00:14:56,169 --> 00:14:59,172
He was so good looking ,
and tall, like me.
304
00:14:59,172 --> 00:15:01,675
He asked me out for a date,
i'll never forget,
305
00:15:01,675 --> 00:15:05,180
In his new white chevy belair,
306
00:15:05,180 --> 00:15:06,181
Oh, my god.
307
00:15:06,181 --> 00:15:08,183
I can't do this.
308
00:15:08,183 --> 00:15:09,686
I'm sorry.
309
00:15:09,686 --> 00:15:11,487
I can't talk to you about down there.
310
00:15:11,488 --> 00:15:12,989
You just know it's there like the cellar.
311
00:15:12,990 --> 00:15:14,491
, you can hear the pipes
312
00:15:14,492 --> 00:15:16,994
Things get caught there
from time to time.
313
00:15:16,994 --> 00:15:19,497
Little animals and things.
314
00:15:19,497 --> 00:15:23,503
, it gets wet, people come,
they plug up the leaks
315
00:15:23,503 --> 00:15:25,973
Otherwise the door stays closed,
316
00:15:25,973 --> 00:15:27,374
You forget about it.
317
00:15:27,374 --> 00:15:29,376
Andy.
318
00:15:29,877 --> 00:15:31,379
Oh, god, he was a catch.
319
00:15:31,379 --> 00:15:33,381
That's what we called it in my day.
320
00:15:33,381 --> 00:15:34,883
We're in his car,
321
00:15:35,384 --> 00:15:36,886
And all i'm thinking
about are my kneecaps.
322
00:15:36,886 --> 00:15:38,388
I have very long legs,
323
00:15:38,388 --> 00:15:40,390
And my kneecaps were smushed
up against the dashboard.
324
00:15:40,390 --> 00:15:43,394
When andy just grabs me,
and kisses me in this
325
00:15:43,894 --> 00:15:45,897
"take you by control like
they do in the movies
326
00:15:45,897 --> 00:15:47,399
Kind of way.
327
00:15:47,399 --> 00:15:49,902
Well, i got excited.
328
00:15:50,302 --> 00:15:53,707
. I got very excited
329
00:15:53,707 --> 00:15:56,009
And there was a... Well,
there was a...
330
00:15:56,009 --> 00:15:57,912
Well, there was
a flood down there
331
00:15:57,912 --> 00:15:59,380
This river of life,
332
00:15:59,380 --> 00:16:01,382
This force of passion just
flooded out of me.
333
00:16:01,382 --> 00:16:03,886
Right through my panties,
right onto the car seat
334
00:16:03,886 --> 00:16:06,390
Of his new white chevy belair.
335
00:16:06,390 --> 00:16:07,891
Well, it wasn't pee.
336
00:16:08,392 --> 00:16:10,294
And it wasn't smelly.
337
00:16:10,294 --> 00:16:12,296
Well, he said, andy said, he said
338
00:16:12,296 --> 00:16:14,799
It smelled like sour milk and
it was staining his car seat.
339
00:16:14,799 --> 00:16:18,804
I was "a stinky weird girl", he said.
340
00:16:18,804 --> 00:16:20,807
I tried to explain
341
00:16:20,807 --> 00:16:22,809
That his kiss had caught me off guard,
342
00:16:22,809 --> 00:16:24,311
I wasn't normally like this.
343
00:16:24,311 --> 00:16:26,314
I tried to wipe up
the flood with my dress.
344
00:16:26,314 --> 00:16:28,817
It was a new, yellow
primrose dress,
345
00:16:28,817 --> 00:16:32,287
And it looked ugly with
the flood on it.
346
00:16:32,287 --> 00:16:34,290
. Andy drove me home
347
00:16:35,292 --> 00:16:37,294
He never...
348
00:16:37,294 --> 00:16:39,797
He never said another word to me.
349
00:16:39,797 --> 00:16:42,801
And when i got out of his car,
i tell you, i closed it,
350
00:16:42,801 --> 00:16:44,302
Locked it, locked the store.
351
00:16:44,302 --> 00:16:48,408
Never opened for business again.
352
00:16:48,408 --> 00:16:50,911
, i used to have these dreams,
though, i mean
353
00:16:50,911 --> 00:16:52,413
They're crazy dreams, dopey dreams.
354
00:16:52,413 --> 00:16:53,914
Why ?
355
00:16:53,914 --> 00:16:55,416
Burt reynolds.
356
00:16:55,416 --> 00:16:56,918
I don't know why.
357
00:16:57,419 --> 00:16:59,922
The guy never did
a thing for me in life.
358
00:16:59,922 --> 00:17:01,824
But always in my dreams,
it was burt and i,
359
00:17:02,324 --> 00:17:03,826
Burt and i, burt and i.
360
00:17:03,826 --> 00:17:05,296
We'd be out for dinner,
361
00:17:05,296 --> 00:17:06,797
One of those restaurants,
362
00:17:06,798 --> 00:17:08,799
The kind you see in atlantic city.
363
00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:12,304
Huge chandeliers, thousands
of the waiters with the vests on.
364
00:17:12,305 --> 00:17:14,907
Burt would be there,
365
00:17:14,907 --> 00:17:16,910
He'd give me an orchid corsage.
366
00:17:16,910 --> 00:17:18,912
I'd pin it to my blazer.
367
00:17:18,912 --> 00:17:20,414
We'd laugh,
368
00:17:20,414 --> 00:17:21,916
We were always laughing, burt and i.
369
00:17:21,916 --> 00:17:22,917
. Laughing, laughing
370
00:17:23,418 --> 00:17:24,920
Ate shrimp cocktail,
371
00:17:25,220 --> 00:17:26,421
Fabulous shrimp, huge shrimp.
372
00:17:26,922 --> 00:17:28,424
Then burt would lean towards me,
373
00:17:28,925 --> 00:17:31,427
And just as he was about to kiss me,
374
00:17:31,427 --> 00:17:35,032
The entire restaurant
would start to shake.
375
00:17:35,032 --> 00:17:38,002
Pigeons would fly out from
underneath the table.
376
00:17:38,002 --> 00:17:39,504
I don't know what
the pigeons were doing there
377
00:17:39,504 --> 00:17:41,507
And the flood would come,
378
00:17:42,007 --> 00:17:44,010
Straight from down there.
379
00:17:44,010 --> 00:17:47,314
It would pour out of me.
380
00:17:47,314 --> 00:17:50,217
It would pour and pour.
381
00:17:50,217 --> 00:17:52,220
There'd be little boats inside it
382
00:17:52,220 --> 00:17:53,722
And little fish,
383
00:17:54,222 --> 00:17:57,727
And the entire restaurant
would fill up with my flood.
384
00:17:57,727 --> 00:18:01,531
And there would be burt,
standing waist deep in it,
385
00:18:02,031 --> 00:18:03,734
Looking horrified.
386
00:18:04,235 --> 00:18:06,237
Horribly disappointed
i'd done it again,
387
00:18:06,237 --> 00:18:08,240
As he watched his friends,
388
00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:10,042
Dean martin and the likes,
389
00:18:10,042 --> 00:18:13,413
Swim past us in their
tuxedos and evening gowns.
390
00:18:15,916 --> 00:18:20,221
I don't have those
dreams anymore, no.
391
00:18:20,221 --> 00:18:21,723
Not since they took
just about everything
392
00:18:21,723 --> 00:18:23,225
Connected with down there.
393
00:18:23,225 --> 00:18:25,728
Moved out the tubes, the uterus, the whole works.
394
00:18:25,728 --> 00:18:27,731
My doctor thinks he's
a real comedian.
395
00:18:27,731 --> 00:18:30,733
He tells me, "you don't use it,
you lose it".
396
00:18:30,733 --> 00:18:32,737
But, really,
397
00:18:32,737 --> 00:18:34,239
It was cancer.
398
00:18:34,239 --> 00:18:35,741
The whole thing had to go.
399
00:18:35,741 --> 00:18:37,743
Highly overrated anyway, right ?
400
00:18:37,743 --> 00:18:39,245
I do other things.
401
00:18:39,746 --> 00:18:41,247
Love the dog shows.
402
00:18:41,247 --> 00:18:43,249
I sell antiques.
403
00:18:43,249 --> 00:18:45,119
Excuse me ?
404
00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:46,621
Come again ?
405
00:18:46,621 --> 00:18:48,623
"what would it wear ?"
406
00:18:49,124 --> 00:18:51,627
What kind of question is that,
what would it wear ?
407
00:18:51,627 --> 00:18:54,030
It would wear a sign,
408
00:18:54,030 --> 00:18:56,934
"closed, due to flooding".
409
00:18:56,934 --> 00:18:59,436
What would it say ?
410
00:18:59,436 --> 00:19:01,940
I told you, it's not a thing
that speaks, it's a place.
411
00:19:01,940 --> 00:19:03,942
A place you don't go.
412
00:19:03,942 --> 00:19:05,945
Closed up, under the house, down there.
413
00:19:05,945 --> 00:19:07,947
You happy now, you happy ?
414
00:19:07,947 --> 00:19:10,750
You got an old lady to talk about
this stuff, you feel better ?
415
00:19:12,953 --> 00:19:14,454
Actually...
416
00:19:14,454 --> 00:19:16,925
I'll tell you the truth.
417
00:19:16,925 --> 00:19:19,428
O you are the very first
person i ever talked t
418
00:19:19,428 --> 00:19:21,430
About any of this stuff.
419
00:19:21,430 --> 00:19:24,434
. I feel a little better
420
00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:31,042
did you ever look
at your vagina or-- ?
421
00:19:31,443 --> 00:19:33,045
No, i didn't, no, i didn't.
422
00:19:33,045 --> 00:19:34,747
So, you've never seen your vagina ?
423
00:19:34,747 --> 00:19:35,949
I don't think so.
424
00:19:35,949 --> 00:19:37,951
I don't think so, and
i've had children.
425
00:19:38,352 --> 00:19:39,553
Really ? Yeah.
426
00:19:39,553 --> 00:19:41,154
What do you imagine
it looks like ?
427
00:19:41,154 --> 00:19:44,459
Well, i guess i've seen it
in the doctor's office,
428
00:19:44,459 --> 00:19:46,061
When i'm in the stirrups,
if there's a mirror,
429
00:19:46,462 --> 00:19:48,064
I mean, i'm sure i must have
seen it in passing
430
00:19:48,064 --> 00:19:49,732
. Over the years
431
00:19:49,732 --> 00:19:51,434
Well, i happened to look down
432
00:19:51,434 --> 00:19:54,338
And there was this very ugly
thing staring back at me,
433
00:19:54,338 --> 00:19:55,940
And...
434
00:19:57,141 --> 00:19:58,743
Oh, my god.
435
00:20:00,145 --> 00:20:01,247
And do you have good sex today ?
436
00:20:01,747 --> 00:20:03,950
Yes.
437
00:20:04,451 --> 00:20:06,854
You said "good", you didn't
ask how often.
438
00:20:06,854 --> 00:20:09,756
Is there something specific
it's longed for ?
439
00:20:09,756 --> 00:20:12,259
Well, right about now, probably sex.
440
00:20:12,259 --> 00:20:14,864
'Cause it's been a long time.
441
00:20:16,766 --> 00:20:19,169
It's probably down there just wishing.
442
00:20:19,569 --> 00:20:20,370
Just wishing.
443
00:20:20,771 --> 00:20:21,972
Just wishing.
444
00:20:21,972 --> 00:20:23,541
Why don't you get some sense, woman,
445
00:20:23,541 --> 00:20:25,343
And give me some help down here ?
446
00:20:25,343 --> 00:20:26,343
It still aches a little bit,
447
00:20:26,844 --> 00:20:27,746
. Because i stil l like to play house
448
00:20:29,448 --> 00:20:31,951
I'm old, not dead.
449
00:20:33,553 --> 00:20:34,955
No, i'm not holding this.
450
00:20:36,056 --> 00:20:38,058
It's amazing how many
people complain
451
00:20:38,459 --> 00:20:40,161
That there are not
enough monologues
452
00:20:40,161 --> 00:20:43,165
About heterosexual, vagina-loving men.
453
00:20:43,165 --> 00:20:44,367
We have 10 minutes, ms. Ensler.
454
00:20:44,567 --> 00:20:46,970
There is a vagina-loving man.
455
00:20:46,970 --> 00:20:47,871
Come in, steve.
456
00:20:48,272 --> 00:20:49,273
This is the guy.
457
00:20:49,273 --> 00:20:50,474
Right here, right here.
458
00:20:50,474 --> 00:20:52,075
Tell me, what've you
learned about vaginas
459
00:20:52,076 --> 00:20:53,377
In the last few days ?
460
00:20:53,377 --> 00:20:54,579
I've probably learned more
in the last three days
461
00:20:54,979 --> 00:20:56,648
Than in my entire 24 years.
462
00:20:56,648 --> 00:20:57,850
Really ? Oh, yeah.
463
00:20:58,250 --> 00:20:59,051
Specific ?
464
00:20:59,051 --> 00:21:01,054
Basically, i thought
i knew something,
465
00:21:01,055 --> 00:21:01,855
. And i knew nothing
466
00:21:02,356 --> 00:21:04,258
That's what it comes down to.
467
00:21:04,258 --> 00:21:05,860
This next monologue is
based on an interview
468
00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:07,361
I did with a woman
469
00:21:07,862 --> 00:21:10,866
Who had a good experience with a man.
470
00:21:16,073 --> 00:21:18,776
Because he liked to look at it.
471
00:21:20,477 --> 00:21:24,482
This is how i came
to love my vagina.
472
00:21:24,482 --> 00:21:26,486
It's embarrassing
473
00:21:26,486 --> 00:21:29,356
Because it's not politically correct.
474
00:21:29,356 --> 00:21:32,359
I mean, i know how it
should have happened.
475
00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:35,863
In a bath, with salt
grains from the dead sea,
476
00:21:35,863 --> 00:21:39,467
Enya playing...
477
00:21:41,471 --> 00:21:43,974
Me loving my woman-self.
478
00:21:44,475 --> 00:21:46,477
I know the story.
479
00:21:46,477 --> 00:21:48,479
Vaginas are beautiful.
480
00:21:48,980 --> 00:21:50,982
Our self-hatred is only
the internalized repression
481
00:21:51,482 --> 00:21:53,485
And hatred of
the patriarchal culture.
482
00:21:53,985 --> 00:21:55,488
It isn't real.
483
00:21:55,488 --> 00:21:57,491
Pussies unite.
484
00:21:57,491 --> 00:21:59,393
I know all of it.
485
00:21:59,393 --> 00:22:01,395
Like if we'd grown
up in a culture
486
00:22:01,395 --> 00:22:03,364
Where we were taught fat
thighs were beautiful,
487
00:22:03,364 --> 00:22:06,768
We'd all be pounding down
milk shakes and doughnuts,
488
00:22:06,768 --> 00:22:09,672
, spending our days
lying on our backs
489
00:22:10,173 --> 00:22:11,675
Thigh-expanding.
490
00:22:11,675 --> 00:22:14,679
But we didn't grow up in
that culture, did we ?
491
00:22:14,679 --> 00:22:15,680
No.
492
00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:17,181
I hated my thighs,
493
00:22:17,181 --> 00:22:20,185
And i hated my vagina even more.
494
00:22:20,185 --> 00:22:23,189
I thought it was incredibly ugly.
495
00:22:23,590 --> 00:22:26,594
I was one of those women
who had looked at it,
496
00:22:27,094 --> 00:22:30,298
And from that moment
on i wished i hadn't.
497
00:22:30,298 --> 00:22:33,101
It made me sick.
498
00:22:33,101 --> 00:22:35,570
I pitied anyone who
had to go down there.
499
00:22:35,570 --> 00:22:39,075
In order to survive,
500
00:22:39,075 --> 00:22:40,577
I began to pretend
501
00:22:40,577 --> 00:22:42,580
There was something
else between my legs.
502
00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:45,584
I imagined furniture.
503
00:22:47,285 --> 00:22:50,288
Cozy futons with light
cotton comforters,
504
00:22:50,288 --> 00:22:53,794
Little velvet settees,
or pretty things.
505
00:22:53,794 --> 00:22:55,296
Silk handkerchiefs,
506
00:22:55,296 --> 00:22:56,798
Quilted pot holders.
507
00:22:56,798 --> 00:22:58,299
I got so accustomed to this,
508
00:22:58,299 --> 00:23:01,803
I lost all memory
of having a vagina.
509
00:23:01,803 --> 00:23:03,805
Whenever a man was inside me,
510
00:23:03,805 --> 00:23:06,810
I pictured him inside
a mink-lined muffler
511
00:23:06,810 --> 00:23:08,278
Or a chinese bowl.
512
00:23:08,779 --> 00:23:11,983
Then i met bob...
513
00:23:12,283 --> 00:23:15,287
Bob was the most ordinary man
514
00:23:15,287 --> 00:23:16,788
I ever met.
515
00:23:17,289 --> 00:23:18,790
Thin, tall, nondescript,
516
00:23:18,790 --> 00:23:20,793
He wore khaki tan clothes.
517
00:23:24,298 --> 00:23:28,303
Bob did not like spicy foods
or listen to prodigy.
518
00:23:28,303 --> 00:23:31,807
He had no interest in sexy lingerie.
519
00:23:31,807 --> 00:23:33,809
In the summer,
520
00:23:33,809 --> 00:23:35,813
He spent time in the shade.
521
00:23:37,014 --> 00:23:38,516
. He did not share his
inner feelings
522
00:23:39,017 --> 00:23:41,486
, he didn't have any
problems or issues
523
00:23:41,486 --> 00:23:44,289
He wasn't even an alcoholic.
524
00:23:44,289 --> 00:23:50,297
He wasn't very funny or
articulate or mysterious.
525
00:23:50,297 --> 00:23:52,800
. He wasn't mean or unavailable
526
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:56,405
He wasn't self-involved or charismatic.
527
00:23:56,405 --> 00:23:58,406
He didn't drive fast.
528
00:23:58,406 --> 00:24:01,410
I didn't particularly like bob.
529
00:24:01,911 --> 00:24:05,416
I would have missed him altogether
530
00:24:05,416 --> 00:24:07,919
If he hadn't picked up my change
531
00:24:08,420 --> 00:24:10,422
That i dropped on the deli floor.
532
00:24:10,922 --> 00:24:14,393
When he handed me back
my pennies and quarters,
533
00:24:14,393 --> 00:24:16,495
And his hand
534
00:24:16,495 --> 00:24:20,001
Accidentally touched mine,
535
00:24:20,001 --> 00:24:22,003
. Something happened
536
00:24:22,003 --> 00:24:23,505
. I went to bed with him
537
00:24:26,008 --> 00:24:29,111
That's when the miracle occurred.
538
00:24:29,111 --> 00:24:33,618
It turned out that
bob loved vaginas.
539
00:24:33,618 --> 00:24:35,620
He was a connoisseur.
540
00:24:35,620 --> 00:24:39,224
He loved the way they tasted,
the way they smelled,
541
00:24:39,724 --> 00:24:42,227
The way they felt, but most importantly,
542
00:24:42,227 --> 00:24:45,231
Bob loved the way they looked.
543
00:24:45,732 --> 00:24:46,733
. He had to look at them
544
00:24:46,733 --> 00:24:50,305
First time we had sex,
he told me he had to see me.
545
00:24:50,305 --> 00:24:52,808
"i'm right here, bob."
546
00:24:52,808 --> 00:24:57,313
"no," he said. "you,
i need to see you."
547
00:24:57,313 --> 00:24:59,716
"turn on the light," i said,
548
00:24:59,716 --> 00:25:02,219
Thinking he was a weirdo and
freaking out in the dark.
549
00:25:02,219 --> 00:25:04,222
He turned on the light.
550
00:25:04,723 --> 00:25:08,727
"okay," he said, "i'm ready,
i'm ready to see you."
551
00:25:08,727 --> 00:25:11,230
"i'm right here, bob, right here."
552
00:25:11,230 --> 00:25:12,732
He began to undress me.
553
00:25:12,732 --> 00:25:14,734
"what are you doing, bob ?"
554
00:25:14,734 --> 00:25:17,238
"i need to see what you look like."
555
00:25:17,238 --> 00:25:21,310
"but you've seen a red leather
couch before, bob,
556
00:25:21,310 --> 00:25:22,812
I know you've seen that."
557
00:25:22,812 --> 00:25:24,313
Bob continued, he would not stop.
558
00:25:24,313 --> 00:25:27,116
I wanted to throw up and die.
559
00:25:27,116 --> 00:25:29,619
"this is awfully intimate, bob.
560
00:25:29,619 --> 00:25:33,125
Can't you just do it ?"
561
00:25:37,629 --> 00:25:39,632
"no," he said.
562
00:25:39,632 --> 00:25:43,136
"it's who you are, i need to look."
563
00:25:44,137 --> 00:25:46,642
I held my breath.
564
00:25:46,642 --> 00:25:48,844
He looked,
565
00:25:48,844 --> 00:25:50,345
And looked.
566
00:25:51,346 --> 00:25:53,816
He gasped,
567
00:25:53,816 --> 00:25:56,319
And smiled,
568
00:25:56,319 --> 00:25:57,821
And stared,
569
00:25:57,821 --> 00:25:59,323
And groaned.
570
00:25:59,323 --> 00:26:00,826
He got breathy,
571
00:26:00,826 --> 00:26:02,327
And his face changed.
572
00:26:02,327 --> 00:26:04,430
He didn't look ordinary anymore.
573
00:26:04,430 --> 00:26:06,432
He looked like a hungry beast.
574
00:26:06,432 --> 00:26:10,937
"you're so beautiful," he said.
575
00:26:10,937 --> 00:26:13,941
"you're elegant and deep
576
00:26:14,442 --> 00:26:16,445
" and innocent and wild.
577
00:26:16,445 --> 00:26:18,948
"you saw that there ?", i said.
578
00:26:18,948 --> 00:26:21,450
It was like he read my palm.
579
00:26:21,951 --> 00:26:25,956
"i saw that,"
580
00:26:26,123 --> 00:26:30,729
He said, "and much, much more."
581
00:26:30,729 --> 00:26:33,733
Bob stayed looking
582
00:26:33,733 --> 00:26:36,035
. For almost an hour
583
00:26:36,035 --> 00:26:38,037
, as if he were studying a map
584
00:26:38,037 --> 00:26:40,040
, observing the moon
585
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:41,642
Staring into my eyes.
586
00:26:41,642 --> 00:26:43,644
But it was my vagina !
587
00:26:45,648 --> 00:26:47,149
In the light,
588
00:26:47,149 --> 00:26:50,153
I watched him looking at me.
589
00:26:51,154 --> 00:26:54,658
He was so excited.
590
00:26:54,658 --> 00:26:58,263
So peaceful and euphoric.
591
00:26:58,263 --> 00:27:03,236
I began to get wet and turned on.
592
00:27:03,236 --> 00:27:07,641
I began to see myself
the way he saw me.
593
00:27:07,641 --> 00:27:11,245
I began to feel beautiful
and delicious,
594
00:27:11,746 --> 00:27:13,749
Like a great painting
or a waterfall.
595
00:27:14,250 --> 00:27:17,253
Bob wasn't afraid, no,
he wasn't grossed out.
596
00:27:17,253 --> 00:27:20,257
I began to swell.
597
00:27:20,257 --> 00:27:22,860
I began to feel proud.
598
00:27:22,860 --> 00:27:27,065
I began to love my vagina.
599
00:27:27,366 --> 00:27:31,971
. And bob lost himself there
600
00:27:31,971 --> 00:27:35,942
And i was there with him,
601
00:27:35,942 --> 00:27:39,947
In my vagina.
602
00:27:39,947 --> 00:27:41,449
And we...
603
00:27:41,449 --> 00:27:42,952
Were...
604
00:27:42,952 --> 00:27:44,754
Gone !
605
00:27:53,064 --> 00:27:56,068
We're gonna get little buttons
made that say, "i'm your bob."
606
00:27:56,068 --> 00:27:57,971
He's a "bob", i can tell.
607
00:28:02,576 --> 00:28:05,245
It's part of that whole
university training, you know ?
608
00:28:06,247 --> 00:28:07,548
Oh, my god.
609
00:28:08,850 --> 00:28:11,154
It's all about posture and hair.
610
00:28:11,154 --> 00:28:15,158
Haven't thought about my
hair this much in my entire life.
611
00:28:17,060 --> 00:28:18,762
I asked all the women i interviewed
612
00:28:18,762 --> 00:28:22,167
The same questions, and then
i picked my favorite answers,
613
00:28:22,167 --> 00:28:23,368
Although i have to tell you,
614
00:28:23,869 --> 00:28:26,373
I have never heard an
answer i didn't love.
615
00:28:26,373 --> 00:28:29,376
The first question
i asked women was,
616
00:28:29,376 --> 00:28:31,879
If your vagina got dressed,
617
00:28:31,879 --> 00:28:32,780
What would it wear ?
618
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,283
What would you r vagina wear
if it got dressed ?
619
00:28:35,283 --> 00:28:38,086
Oh, i knew that question
was going to come,
620
00:28:38,453 --> 00:28:40,857
And i said that everybody
would probably say
621
00:28:40,857 --> 00:28:43,760
That i would have on
a ralph lauren skirt
622
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:45,762
Or a calvin klein dress
or something like that.
623
00:28:46,063 --> 00:28:47,665
I would probably put a hat on it.
624
00:28:47,665 --> 00:28:48,366
Lots of glitter.
625
00:28:48,766 --> 00:28:49,567
Red silk.
626
00:28:49,567 --> 00:28:50,268
Jeans.
627
00:28:50,568 --> 00:28:52,070
. Probably a red boa
628
00:28:52,471 --> 00:28:54,775
Hiking boots and a lot of sun block.
629
00:28:54,775 --> 00:28:56,076
Something from the 40s.
630
00:28:56,476 --> 00:28:58,478
I like leather , it's sexy.
631
00:28:58,478 --> 00:28:59,379
It would be bald.
632
00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:01,482
And it'd have an earring.
633
00:29:01,482 --> 00:29:02,884
Actually my vagina's a nudist.
634
00:29:03,284 --> 00:29:04,886
Doesn't wear anything anymore.
635
00:29:04,886 --> 00:29:06,488
Some "tims",
636
00:29:06,488 --> 00:29:08,090
Some baggy jeans,
637
00:29:08,090 --> 00:29:09,893
Probably a hoodie.
638
00:29:09,893 --> 00:29:11,362
Like a little old-fashioned dress.
639
00:29:11,362 --> 00:29:14,665
. Spotted leather pants,
and a black knit shirt
640
00:29:14,665 --> 00:29:15,966
Ooh, daddy would love that.
641
00:29:15,966 --> 00:29:19,771
I know it, he would love it.
642
00:29:20,072 --> 00:29:22,475
I've been traveling for several
years all around the world,
643
00:29:22,475 --> 00:29:24,478
And i've been threatening
to create a map
644
00:29:24,878 --> 00:29:26,079
, of all the vagina-friendly cities
645
00:29:26,079 --> 00:29:29,383
Five years in the theater,
not one map.
646
00:29:29,383 --> 00:29:32,387
One hour in hbo, presto !
647
00:29:32,387 --> 00:29:34,289
! A vagina friendly map
648
00:29:34,289 --> 00:29:37,093
I bet you don't
know about some of
649
00:29:37,093 --> 00:29:39,195
The really many surprising
vagina-friendly cities.
650
00:29:39,195 --> 00:29:41,999
Oklahoma city loves vaginas.
651
00:29:41,999 --> 00:29:43,000
Who knew ?
652
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,370
Boise, idaho, recent recent convert
653
00:29:45,370 --> 00:29:46,972
They've come into vagina land.
654
00:29:46,972 --> 00:29:48,373
. Congratulations, idaho
655
00:29:48,373 --> 00:29:51,577
There are on this map
vagina holiday zones,
656
00:29:51,577 --> 00:29:53,581
New york city is vagina holiday zone.
657
00:29:53,981 --> 00:29:56,483
. San francisco has its own status
658
00:29:56,483 --> 00:29:59,687
. There is no other vagina
world fair zone
659
00:29:59,687 --> 00:30:01,289
It's the only one on the map,
just imagine the ride.
660
00:30:01,289 --> 00:30:03,392
There are some areas which clearly,
661
00:30:03,793 --> 00:30:06,195
As you look through
the mid-part of america,
662
00:30:06,195 --> 00:30:08,799
Have not been liberated as of yet,
663
00:30:08,799 --> 00:30:11,102
But we have great faith they
will be liberated any day now.
664
00:30:11,102 --> 00:30:13,605
Pittsburgh is a wild--
665
00:30:13,605 --> 00:30:14,606
Where is pittsburgh ?
666
00:30:14,606 --> 00:30:17,009
Wildly, wildly vagina-friendly city,
667
00:30:17,410 --> 00:30:18,577
I've been ther e three times
668
00:30:18,978 --> 00:30:20,580
And they love vaginas in pittsburgh.
669
00:30:20,580 --> 00:30:21,983
Who knew ?
670
00:30:21,983 --> 00:30:23,284
After one of m y first shows there,
671
00:30:23,284 --> 00:30:24,485
A woman came up to me and she said,
672
00:30:24,485 --> 00:30:26,087
I have to talk to you right away.
673
00:30:26,087 --> 00:30:27,288
. She was very upset
674
00:30:27,288 --> 00:30:28,890
. I called her when
i got back to new york
675
00:30:28,890 --> 00:30:30,893
She told me that she
liked the piece,
676
00:30:30,893 --> 00:30:34,097
But she felt i had missed
the texture of the vagina,
677
00:30:34,497 --> 00:30:35,799
She needed to talk texture.
678
00:30:35,799 --> 00:30:37,801
For the next hour, she talked to me
679
00:30:37,801 --> 00:30:39,403
About the texture of the vagina
680
00:30:39,403 --> 00:30:41,005
With such nuance and detail,
681
00:30:41,005 --> 00:30:42,607
That to be honest,
682
00:30:42,607 --> 00:30:44,310
I had to lay down at the end
of the conversation.
683
00:30:44,310 --> 00:30:47,113
However, she also told me
in the course of our conversation
684
00:30:47,113 --> 00:30:48,714
That i had sai d something negative
685
00:30:48,714 --> 00:30:50,317
About a particular word.
686
00:30:50,685 --> 00:30:51,886
A pejorative word,
687
00:30:51,886 --> 00:30:54,288
A word that's been used
to declaim the vagina,
688
00:30:54,288 --> 00:30:56,691
And she needed to help
me reconceive this word.
689
00:30:56,691 --> 00:30:58,393
So, for the next hour,
690
00:30:58,794 --> 00:31:00,396
She talked to me about this word,
691
00:31:00,396 --> 00:31:01,597
And when she was done,
692
00:31:01,597 --> 00:31:03,199
I was a convert.
693
00:31:03,500 --> 00:31:05,102
. I wrote this for her..
694
00:31:09,908 --> 00:31:11,810
I call it...
695
00:31:11,810 --> 00:31:13,813
Cunt.
696
00:31:13,813 --> 00:31:16,316
I've reclaimed it.
697
00:31:17,717 --> 00:31:19,720
Cunt.
698
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,323
I really like it.
699
00:31:22,323 --> 00:31:24,793
Cunt,
700
00:31:24,793 --> 00:31:27,296
Just listen to it, listen to it.
701
00:31:27,596 --> 00:31:29,599
Cunt.
702
00:31:31,101 --> 00:31:33,103
Ca...
703
00:31:33,103 --> 00:31:35,106
Ca...
704
00:31:35,106 --> 00:31:37,509
Cavern,
705
00:31:37,509 --> 00:31:40,813
Cackle, clit, cute, come-closed c,
706
00:31:40,813 --> 00:31:44,317
Closed inside, inside ca...
707
00:31:44,317 --> 00:31:47,420
Ca...
708
00:31:47,420 --> 00:31:49,223
Then u...
709
00:31:49,223 --> 00:31:51,226
Then cu...
710
00:31:51,226 --> 00:31:54,230
Then curvy, inviting sharkskin, u...
711
00:31:54,230 --> 00:31:56,532
Uniform,
712
00:31:56,532 --> 00:31:59,002
Under,
713
00:31:59,002 --> 00:32:00,504
Up,
714
00:32:00,504 --> 00:32:02,006
Urge,
715
00:32:02,006 --> 00:32:06,211
Ooh, ooh, u...
716
00:32:06,211 --> 00:32:09,715
. Then n, then cun..
717
00:32:09,715 --> 00:32:12,018
Cun...
718
00:32:12,018 --> 00:32:14,021
Snug letters fitting perfectly together.
719
00:32:14,521 --> 00:32:15,722
N...
720
00:32:15,722 --> 00:32:17,725
Nest, now,
721
00:32:17,725 --> 00:32:20,729
Nexus, nice,
722
00:32:21,230 --> 00:32:24,734
Always depth, always
round in uppercase,
723
00:32:24,734 --> 00:32:27,737
Cun, cun... !
724
00:32:28,238 --> 00:32:30,608
A jagged wicked electrical pulse.
725
00:32:30,608 --> 00:32:33,111
N..., n...
726
00:32:33,611 --> 00:32:36,615
Then soft n, warm n...
727
00:32:36,615 --> 00:32:40,120
Cun, cun.
728
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:43,123
Then t, then t...
729
00:32:43,123 --> 00:32:45,826
Then sharp certain tangy t...
730
00:32:45,826 --> 00:32:48,830
Texture, take,
731
00:32:48,830 --> 00:32:51,934
Tight, tent,
732
00:32:51,934 --> 00:32:53,436
Tantalizing,
733
00:32:53,436 --> 00:32:54,938
Tensing,
734
00:32:55,439 --> 00:32:56,440
Taste,
735
00:32:56,940 --> 00:32:58,441
Tendrils,
736
00:32:58,441 --> 00:32:59,943
Time,
737
00:32:59,943 --> 00:33:01,446
Tactile,
738
00:33:01,947 --> 00:33:02,914
Tell me !
739
00:33:03,415 --> 00:33:06,319
Tell me, cunt !
740
00:33:06,319 --> 00:33:09,122
Cunt !
741
00:33:09,322 --> 00:33:10,824
Say it !
742
00:33:10,824 --> 00:33:13,627
Tell me, come on !
743
00:33:13,627 --> 00:33:16,131
Cunt.
744
00:33:16,131 --> 00:33:19,335
Cunt.
745
00:33:19,335 --> 00:33:24,041
Cunt !
746
00:33:24,041 --> 00:33:25,542
Whoo !
747
00:33:32,151 --> 00:33:34,053
. Love that word
748
00:33:34,554 --> 00:33:36,122
I can't say it enough.
749
00:33:36,122 --> 00:33:38,125
I can't stop saying it.
750
00:33:38,125 --> 00:33:40,628
Feeling a little irritated in the airport,
751
00:33:41,129 --> 00:33:42,630
Just say "cunt", everything changes.
752
00:33:44,633 --> 00:33:46,135
"what did you say ?"
753
00:33:46,135 --> 00:33:47,637
I said, "cunt, that's right,
cunt, cunt, cunt, cunt."
754
00:33:47,637 --> 00:33:48,838
It feels good.
755
00:33:48,838 --> 00:33:50,540
Try it, go ahead, go ahead.
756
00:33:50,540 --> 00:33:50,841
Cunt.
757
00:33:51,341 --> 00:33:51,842
Cunt.
758
00:33:51,842 --> 00:33:52,643
Cunt.
759
00:33:52,643 --> 00:33:53,344
Cunt.
760
00:33:53,344 --> 00:33:54,945
. Cunt, cunt
761
00:33:54,945 --> 00:33:56,447
Cunt.
762
00:33:56,447 --> 00:33:58,349
. Cunt, cunt
763
00:33:58,349 --> 00:34:00,553
Cunt !
764
00:34:00,553 --> 00:34:04,257
cunt, cunt, cunt... !
765
00:34:04,257 --> 00:34:05,859
I'm a cunt !
766
00:34:05,859 --> 00:34:09,030
My mother's gonna see this,
i can't.
767
00:34:09,030 --> 00:34:10,231
Cunt.
768
00:34:10,532 --> 00:34:12,733
This is better than therapy.
769
00:34:13,335 --> 00:34:15,838
Turns the day around, i promise you.
770
00:34:18,441 --> 00:34:19,343
We're moving along.
771
00:34:19,343 --> 00:34:21,345
I asked women,
772
00:34:21,345 --> 00:34:24,648
"if your vagina could talk,
what would it say ?"
773
00:34:24,648 --> 00:34:27,452
, if your vagina could talk,
and it could say two words
774
00:34:27,452 --> 00:34:29,055
What would it say ?
775
00:34:29,055 --> 00:34:30,256
Slow down.
776
00:34:30,757 --> 00:34:32,359
The first two words that came
to me head was,
777
00:34:32,359 --> 00:34:35,162
, "oh, no," and i don't know if
that answers your question
778
00:34:35,162 --> 00:34:37,164
Or if that's what my vagina would say,
like, "oh, no".
779
00:34:37,164 --> 00:34:38,265
Ice pack.
780
00:34:38,265 --> 00:34:38,966
Feed me.
781
00:34:39,266 --> 00:34:40,067
Eeh !
782
00:34:40,067 --> 00:34:40,768
. Use me
783
00:34:40,768 --> 00:34:42,137
"eat me" comes to mind.
784
00:34:42,137 --> 00:34:43,940
Stop thinking so much
and have a good time.
785
00:34:43,940 --> 00:34:44,741
Where's tom ?
786
00:34:45,141 --> 00:34:45,942
What do you want ?
787
00:34:46,142 --> 00:34:47,144
Want some.
788
00:34:47,144 --> 00:34:47,744
Yes !
789
00:34:48,145 --> 00:34:48,746
Need some.
790
00:34:48,746 --> 00:34:49,346
More.
791
00:34:49,346 --> 00:34:50,548
Help me.
792
00:34:50,548 --> 00:34:51,749
Open for business.
793
00:34:51,749 --> 00:34:52,750
? How you doing
794
00:34:52,750 --> 00:34:54,752
Slow down.
795
00:34:55,153 --> 00:34:56,454
It's cozy.
796
00:34:56,454 --> 00:34:57,457
Howdie, partner.
797
00:34:57,457 --> 00:34:58,558
What's up, honey ?
798
00:34:58,558 --> 00:34:59,459
Go, girl.
799
00:34:59,459 --> 00:35:00,260
I'm here.
800
00:35:00,260 --> 00:35:00,961
I'm here.
801
00:35:01,161 --> 00:35:01,562
I'm here.
802
00:35:01,862 --> 00:35:02,363
Thank you.
803
00:35:02,363 --> 00:35:03,264
Accept gifts.
804
00:35:03,264 --> 00:35:04,165
I'm happy.
805
00:35:04,565 --> 00:35:06,167
That's it.
806
00:35:06,167 --> 00:35:07,668
That's what it would say.
807
00:35:09,771 --> 00:35:12,575
For 10 years i had the privilege of
808
00:35:12,576 --> 00:35:14,845
Working with women in
new york who had no homes.
809
00:35:14,846 --> 00:35:17,248
In that time, i did all
kinds of things.
810
00:35:17,248 --> 00:35:18,850
I hung out, i ran groups,
811
00:35:18,850 --> 00:35:20,051
I had meals, i went to the movies.
812
00:35:20,051 --> 00:35:23,354
I interviewed hundreds and
hundreds of homeless women.
813
00:35:23,354 --> 00:35:25,858
And i have to tell you
in all those years,
814
00:35:25,858 --> 00:35:27,060
In all those interviews,
815
00:35:27,060 --> 00:35:29,463
I only met one woman who was not
816
00:35:29,463 --> 00:35:31,065
Sexually abused,
817
00:35:31,065 --> 00:35:31,866
As a little girl
818
00:35:31,866 --> 00:35:33,868
Or raped as a young woman.
819
00:35:33,868 --> 00:35:35,870
This particular woman
i met seven years ago,
820
00:35:35,870 --> 00:35:38,273
In a shelter, and this is her story,
821
00:35:38,273 --> 00:35:39,474
Just the way she told it to me.
822
00:35:39,474 --> 00:35:41,378
I didn't add or change anything.
823
00:35:41,678 --> 00:35:42,880
What's not in her story
824
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:44,982
Is that she met a woman
in that shelter
825
00:35:45,383 --> 00:35:46,584
And they fell in love,
826
00:35:46,584 --> 00:35:48,853
And through their love they both
got out of the shelter system.
827
00:35:48,854 --> 00:35:52,657
I do this tonight for her,
because i loved her.
828
00:35:58,065 --> 00:36:00,568
Memory,
829
00:36:00,569 --> 00:36:03,471
December, 1965,
830
00:36:03,972 --> 00:36:05,473
Five years old.
831
00:36:05,974 --> 00:36:07,976
My mama tells me in a scary, loud,
832
00:36:07,976 --> 00:36:09,479
Life-threatening voice
833
00:36:09,479 --> 00:36:12,082
To stop scratching
my coochie snorcher.
834
00:36:12,583 --> 00:36:15,487
I become terrified i have
scratched it off down there
835
00:36:15,987 --> 00:36:17,488
And do not touch myself again.
836
00:36:17,488 --> 00:36:18,990
Even in the bath,
837
00:36:19,491 --> 00:36:20,959
I am afraid of the water getting in
838
00:36:21,460 --> 00:36:23,462
And filling me up so i explode.
839
00:36:23,462 --> 00:36:26,467
I put band-aids over my coochie
snorcher to cover the hole,
840
00:36:26,467 --> 00:36:28,469
But they fall off in the water.
841
00:36:28,970 --> 00:36:31,473
I imagine a stopper,
a bath tub plug up there
842
00:36:31,473 --> 00:36:33,475
To prevent things from entering me.
843
00:36:33,475 --> 00:36:36,979
I sleep with three pairs of
happy heart-shaped cotton underpants
844
00:36:36,979 --> 00:36:38,982
Underneath my snap-up pajamas.
845
00:36:38,982 --> 00:36:42,387
I still want to touch myself, but i don't.
846
00:36:43,889 --> 00:36:45,390
Memory,
847
00:36:45,390 --> 00:36:46,891
Seven years old.
848
00:36:47,392 --> 00:36:49,394
Edgar montane, who is 10,
849
00:36:49,394 --> 00:36:50,796
Gets angry at me and punches me
850
00:36:50,796 --> 00:36:53,300
With all his might between my legs.
851
00:36:53,300 --> 00:36:56,571
It feels like he breaks
my entire self.
852
00:36:56,571 --> 00:36:58,974
I limp home, i can't pee.
853
00:36:58,974 --> 00:37:01,977
My mama says "what's wrong with
your coochie snorcher, girl ?"
854
00:37:01,977 --> 00:37:03,979
And when i tell her what
Edgar did to me, she says,
855
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:06,582
"never, never let anyone touch
you down there again".
856
00:37:06,582 --> 00:37:08,586
I tried to explain.
857
00:37:08,586 --> 00:37:10,588
"he didn't touch it, mama.
858
00:37:10,588 --> 00:37:12,491
He punched it."
859
00:37:13,492 --> 00:37:14,493
Memory,
860
00:37:14,493 --> 00:37:16,495
Nine years old.
861
00:37:16,495 --> 00:37:18,998
I play on the bed,
bouncing and falling,
862
00:37:18,998 --> 00:37:22,003
And impale my coochie snorcher
on the bedpost.
863
00:37:22,003 --> 00:37:25,507
I make high-pitched
screaming noises
864
00:37:25,507 --> 00:37:27,776
That come straight from
my coochie snorcher's mouth.
865
00:37:27,776 --> 00:37:30,779
I get taken to the hospital,
866
00:37:30,779 --> 00:37:34,283
. And they sew it up down there
from where it's been torn apart
867
00:37:35,685 --> 00:37:36,787
Memory,
868
00:37:36,787 --> 00:37:38,289
10 years old.
869
00:37:38,690 --> 00:37:40,192
I'm at my father's house
870
00:37:40,192 --> 00:37:41,193
And he's having
a party upstairs.
871
00:37:41,693 --> 00:37:42,694
Everyone's drinking.
872
00:37:42,694 --> 00:37:44,696
I'm playing alone in the basement,
873
00:37:44,696 --> 00:37:47,700
And i'm trying on my new
cotton white bra and panties,
874
00:37:47,700 --> 00:37:49,202
. That my father's
girlfriend gave me
875
00:37:49,202 --> 00:37:51,105
Suddenly my father's best friend,
876
00:37:51,606 --> 00:37:53,608
This big man alfred,
comes up from behind,
877
00:37:54,109 --> 00:37:57,612
And pulls my new underpants down,
878
00:37:57,612 --> 00:38:02,084
And sticks his big, hard penis
right into my coochie snorcher.
879
00:38:02,084 --> 00:38:04,487
I scream, i kick, i try
to fight him off,
880
00:38:04,487 --> 00:38:06,491
. But he already gets in
881
00:38:06,491 --> 00:38:08,593
My daddy's there then,
882
00:38:08,593 --> 00:38:09,995
And he has a gun,
883
00:38:09,995 --> 00:38:12,998
And there is a loud, horrible noise,
884
00:38:12,998 --> 00:38:15,000
, and then there is blood
all over alfred and me
885
00:38:15,501 --> 00:38:17,003
Lots of blood.
886
00:38:17,003 --> 00:38:21,610
I am sure my coochie snorcher
is finally fallen out.
887
00:38:21,610 --> 00:38:24,113
Alfred is paralyzed for life.
888
00:38:24,113 --> 00:38:26,114
And my mama doesn't let
me see my father again
889
00:38:26,114 --> 00:38:28,617
For seven years.
890
00:38:28,617 --> 00:38:30,019
Memory,
891
00:38:30,019 --> 00:38:32,522
13 years old.
892
00:38:32,522 --> 00:38:35,493
My coochie snorcher is
a very bad place.
893
00:38:35,994 --> 00:38:38,898
A place of pain, nastiness, punching,
894
00:38:38,898 --> 00:38:40,900
Invasion and blood.
895
00:38:40,900 --> 00:38:42,401
It's a site for mishaps.
896
00:38:42,401 --> 00:38:43,903
It's a bad luck zone.
897
00:38:44,404 --> 00:38:46,907
I imagine a freeway between my legs,
898
00:38:46,907 --> 00:38:48,409
. And girl, i am traveling
899
00:38:48,910 --> 00:38:50,412
. I'm going far away from here
900
00:38:50,412 --> 00:38:52,415
Memory,
901
00:38:52,415 --> 00:38:54,917
16 years old.
902
00:38:54,917 --> 00:38:57,820
, there is this gorgeous
903
00:38:57,820 --> 00:39:00,424
And i mean gorgeous,
904
00:39:00,424 --> 00:39:02,927
24-year-old woman in
our neighborhood.
905
00:39:02,927 --> 00:39:04,830
And i do not know why,
906
00:39:04,830 --> 00:39:06,799
But i can't help
907
00:39:07,299 --> 00:39:09,802
But staring at her all the time.
908
00:39:09,802 --> 00:39:11,704
One day,
909
00:39:11,704 --> 00:39:14,007
She invites me into her car.
910
00:39:14,007 --> 00:39:17,011
She asks me if i like to kiss boys,
and i say,
911
00:39:17,512 --> 00:39:18,513
"no, i do not like to do that."
912
00:39:18,513 --> 00:39:22,018
Then she says she wants to
show me something.
913
00:39:22,018 --> 00:39:25,521
And she leans over,
914
00:39:25,521 --> 00:39:28,024
And she kisses me
915
00:39:28,024 --> 00:39:30,527
So softly on the lips,
916
00:39:30,527 --> 00:39:31,529
With her lips.
917
00:39:32,030 --> 00:39:34,533
And then she puts her
tongue in my mouth.
918
00:39:34,533 --> 00:39:36,535
Wow.
919
00:39:36,535 --> 00:39:39,038
She asked me if i want to
come over to her house,
920
00:39:39,038 --> 00:39:41,007
And then she kisses me again,
921
00:39:41,007 --> 00:39:43,009
And tells me to relax,
922
00:39:43,009 --> 00:39:44,511
To feel it,
923
00:39:44,912 --> 00:39:46,915
To let our tongues feel it.
924
00:39:46,915 --> 00:39:49,418
She asks my mama if i
can spend the night,
925
00:39:49,418 --> 00:39:50,920
And my mama's delighted,
926
00:39:51,421 --> 00:39:52,422
That such a beautiful, successful woman
927
00:39:52,922 --> 00:39:54,924
Has taken an interest in me.
928
00:39:56,426 --> 00:39:58,128
I am scared,
929
00:39:58,128 --> 00:40:00,531
But really i can't wait.
930
00:40:00,531 --> 00:40:04,036
Her apartment is fantastic.
931
00:40:04,036 --> 00:40:05,037
She's got it really hooked up.
932
00:40:05,538 --> 00:40:06,539
It's the 70s, the beads,
933
00:40:06,539 --> 00:40:08,041
The fluffy pillows,
the mood lights.
934
00:40:08,041 --> 00:40:10,544
I decide right then i'm
gonna be a secretary
935
00:40:10,544 --> 00:40:12,513
Just like her when i grow up.
936
00:40:13,814 --> 00:40:15,718
She makes a vodka for herself,
937
00:40:15,718 --> 00:40:17,220
And then she asks me what
i'm drinking.
938
00:40:17,220 --> 00:40:19,222
I say, the sam e as she's drinking,
939
00:40:19,222 --> 00:40:20,223
And she says she doesn't think
940
00:40:20,223 --> 00:40:22,225
My mama would like
me drinking vodka.
941
00:40:22,225 --> 00:40:25,729
I say, "she probably wouldn't
like me kissing girls either."
942
00:40:25,729 --> 00:40:28,733
And the pretty lady
makes me a drink.
943
00:40:31,137 --> 00:40:34,440
Then she changes into
this chocolate...
944
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:36,943
Satin teddy.
945
00:40:36,943 --> 00:40:38,946
She is so beautiful.
946
00:40:38,946 --> 00:40:40,948
I mean, i always thought
bulldaggers were ugly.
947
00:40:41,449 --> 00:40:43,251
I say, "you look great."
948
00:40:43,251 --> 00:40:45,221
She says, "so do you."
949
00:40:45,221 --> 00:40:47,223
I say, "no, i only have this
white cotton bra
950
00:40:47,724 --> 00:40:48,725
And panties on."
951
00:40:49,226 --> 00:40:52,229
So, she takes me into her closet,
952
00:40:52,229 --> 00:40:54,732
And she changes me into
953
00:40:54,732 --> 00:40:58,236
Another satin teddy.
954
00:40:58,236 --> 00:41:00,240
It is lavender,
955
00:41:00,740 --> 00:41:03,743
Like the first soft days of spring.
956
00:41:03,743 --> 00:41:07,748
The alcohol has gone to my head,
957
00:41:07,748 --> 00:41:09,750
And i am loose.
958
00:41:09,750 --> 00:41:12,254
I am ready.
959
00:41:12,254 --> 00:41:15,158
I notice, as she lays me
down on her bed,
960
00:41:15,158 --> 00:41:18,161
That there is a picture of
a naked black woman
961
00:41:18,161 --> 00:41:20,130
With a huge afro.
962
00:41:20,130 --> 00:41:22,933
As she slowly
963
00:41:22,933 --> 00:41:25,436
And gently lays me
down on her bed,
964
00:41:25,937 --> 00:41:30,944
And just our bodies rubbing.
965
00:41:31,945 --> 00:41:37,451
Just our bodies rubbing
makes me come.
966
00:41:37,451 --> 00:41:39,955
Then she does everything to
me and my coochie snorcher
967
00:41:40,455 --> 00:41:42,459
That i always thought
was nasty before
968
00:41:42,459 --> 00:41:46,463
And oh, my god, i am so excited.
969
00:41:46,463 --> 00:41:49,466
She says, "your vagina,
untouched by man,
970
00:41:49,466 --> 00:41:51,635
"smells so fresh, so nice,
971
00:41:51,635 --> 00:41:53,638
I wish i could keep it
that way forever."
972
00:41:54,139 --> 00:41:54,639
I get crazy.
973
00:41:55,140 --> 00:41:56,642
I get crazy wild.
974
00:41:56,642 --> 00:41:59,146
And then the phone rings,
975
00:41:59,146 --> 00:42:01,648
And it's my mama.
976
00:42:01,648 --> 00:42:03,651
She catches me at everything.
977
00:42:03,651 --> 00:42:06,154
I try to act normal when
i get on the phone.
978
00:42:06,154 --> 00:42:07,155
"what is wrong with you, girl ?
979
00:42:07,656 --> 00:42:09,258
Have you been running ?"
980
00:42:12,262 --> 00:42:15,666
I say, "no, mama, exercising."
981
00:42:17,167 --> 00:42:18,669
Afterwards,
982
00:42:18,669 --> 00:42:21,673
The gorgeous lady teaches
me everything
983
00:42:21,673 --> 00:42:24,176
About my coochie snorcher.
984
00:42:24,176 --> 00:42:26,647
She makes me play with myself
in front of her,
985
00:42:26,647 --> 00:42:30,150
And she teaches me all
the different ways
986
00:42:30,150 --> 00:42:32,152
To give myself pleasure.
987
00:42:32,152 --> 00:42:35,156
She is very thorough.
988
00:42:35,156 --> 00:42:39,662
In the morning, i am worried
i've become a butch,
989
00:42:39,662 --> 00:42:41,665
Because i'm so in love with her.
990
00:42:41,665 --> 00:42:45,169
She laughs, but i never see her again.
991
00:42:46,671 --> 00:42:49,074
You know, i realized later,
992
00:42:49,074 --> 00:42:54,080
She was my surprising, unexpected,
993
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:55,582
Politically incorrect
994
00:42:56,082 --> 00:42:57,552
Salvation.
995
00:42:57,552 --> 00:43:01,055
She transformed my sorry-ass
coochie snorcher
996
00:43:01,055 --> 00:43:04,860
And raised it up
997
00:43:04,860 --> 00:43:08,364
Into a kind of heaven.
998
00:43:17,776 --> 00:43:20,980
in 1993, i saw this incredible picture
999
00:43:20,980 --> 00:43:22,281
On the cover of "newsday".
1000
00:43:22,682 --> 00:43:25,485
It was a picture of six young
bosnian girls
1001
00:43:25,986 --> 00:43:27,989
Who had just been returned
from a rape camp
1002
00:43:28,389 --> 00:43:30,091
In the former yugoslavia,
1003
00:43:30,091 --> 00:43:31,760
And the picture was really shocking,
1004
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:34,563
Because on one level they looked
like six young beautiful girls
1005
00:43:34,563 --> 00:43:37,267
In their late teens, early 20s.
1006
00:43:37,267 --> 00:43:38,870
But from another direction
it was really clear
1007
00:43:39,270 --> 00:43:41,272
That something had just occurred
to each of these girls
1008
00:43:41,672 --> 00:43:44,075
That had changed them forever.
1009
00:43:44,075 --> 00:43:46,478
Inside the newspaper
was another photograph,
1010
00:43:46,478 --> 00:43:49,582
And there were 30 girls who had
been returned from a rape camp.
1011
00:43:49,582 --> 00:43:52,185
And they were all standing
in a semi-circle,
1012
00:43:52,185 --> 00:43:53,487
Having their picture taken,
1013
00:43:53,487 --> 00:43:56,591
Yet not one of them could
look at the camera.
1014
00:43:56,591 --> 00:43:58,994
These pictures completely haunted me,
1015
00:43:58,994 --> 00:44:01,897
And were responsible for my
going to the former yugoslavia
1016
00:44:01,897 --> 00:44:04,367
Several months later during the war,
1017
00:44:04,367 --> 00:44:05,969
Where i spent months
1018
00:44:05,969 --> 00:44:08,273
Interviewing bosnian women
refugees in camps
1019
00:44:08,273 --> 00:44:09,874
And in centers.
1020
00:44:09,874 --> 00:44:12,277
Their stories were, uh,
they were horrible.
1021
00:44:12,277 --> 00:44:14,079
And when i came back to the states,
1022
00:44:14,079 --> 00:44:15,380
I felt insane,
1023
00:44:15,380 --> 00:44:16,982
And i couldn't understand
1024
00:44:16,982 --> 00:44:18,685
Why we weren't doing anything
about the fact
1025
00:44:18,685 --> 00:44:22,690
That between 20 and 70 thousand
women were being raped
1026
00:44:22,690 --> 00:44:25,193
In the middle of europe in 1993,
1027
00:44:25,193 --> 00:44:27,295
As a systematic tactic of war.
1028
00:44:27,796 --> 00:44:29,398
And a friend of mine finally said,
1029
00:44:29,398 --> 00:44:31,000
"why are you surprised ?"
1030
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,503
In this country, in one year,
and i do not exaggerate,
1031
00:44:33,503 --> 00:44:35,505
It's a documented fact.
1032
00:44:36,005 --> 00:44:37,976
In this country in one year,
1033
00:44:37,976 --> 00:44:42,080
Over 700,000 women are raped.
1034
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:45,585
And in theory, we're not at war.
1035
00:44:47,187 --> 00:44:49,990
I wrote this for the brave,
beautiful women
1036
00:44:49,990 --> 00:44:53,194
Of bosnia and kosova.
1037
00:45:01,705 --> 00:45:06,511
My vagina was green water,
1038
00:45:06,511 --> 00:45:09,414
Soft pink fields,
1039
00:45:09,881 --> 00:45:11,383
Cow mooing,
1040
00:45:11,383 --> 00:45:14,387
Sun resting, sweet boyfriend,
1041
00:45:14,387 --> 00:45:18,392
Touching lightly with a soft
piece of blonde straw.
1042
00:45:18,392 --> 00:45:21,896
There is something between my legs.
1043
00:45:21,896 --> 00:45:25,401
I do not know what it is.
1044
00:45:25,401 --> 00:45:27,403
I do not know where it is.
1045
00:45:27,403 --> 00:45:28,404
Not now.
1046
00:45:28,905 --> 00:45:29,906
Not anymore.
1047
00:45:29,906 --> 00:45:30,908
Not since.
1048
00:45:30,908 --> 00:45:36,014
, my vagina was chatty, can't wait,
so much saying
1049
00:45:36,014 --> 00:45:39,018
Words talking, can't quit trying,
1050
00:45:39,018 --> 00:45:42,021
Can't quit saying, "yes,
1051
00:45:42,021 --> 00:45:43,490
Yes."
1052
00:45:43,490 --> 00:45:46,093
Not since i dream there's
a dead animal
1053
00:45:46,093 --> 00:45:48,095
Sewn in down there
1054
00:45:48,095 --> 00:45:50,999
With thick black fishing line.
1055
00:45:50,999 --> 00:45:55,004
And the bad dead animal
smell cannot be removed.
1056
00:45:55,004 --> 00:45:57,507
And its throat is slit
1057
00:45:57,507 --> 00:46:01,011
And it bleeds through all
my summer dresses.
1058
00:46:02,412 --> 00:46:06,418
My vagina singing all girl songs,
1059
00:46:06,418 --> 00:46:08,921
All goat bell ringing songs,
1060
00:46:08,921 --> 00:46:11,925
All wild autumn field songs,
1061
00:46:11,925 --> 00:46:15,428
Vagina songs, vagina home songs.
1062
00:46:15,428 --> 00:46:17,498
Not since the soldiers
1063
00:46:17,498 --> 00:46:20,002
Put a long, thick rifle
1064
00:46:20,002 --> 00:46:21,503
Inside me.
1065
00:46:22,004 --> 00:46:27,010
So cold, the steel rod
canceling my heart.
1066
00:46:27,010 --> 00:46:29,513
Don't know whether they're gonna fire it
1067
00:46:29,513 --> 00:46:32,918
Or shove it through
my spinning brain.
1068
00:46:32,918 --> 00:46:34,420
Six of them,
1069
00:46:34,420 --> 00:46:38,425
With black masks shoving
bottles up me too.
1070
00:46:38,425 --> 00:46:41,428
. There were sticks,
and the end of a broom
1071
00:46:41,428 --> 00:46:45,432
My vagina swimming river water, clean
1072
00:46:45,933 --> 00:46:49,405
Spilling water over sun-baked stones,
1073
00:46:49,905 --> 00:46:53,810
Over stone clit,
clit stones over and over.
1074
00:46:53,810 --> 00:46:56,213
Not since i heard the skin tear
1075
00:46:56,213 --> 00:47:00,217
And made lemon screeching sounds...
1076
00:47:00,718 --> 00:47:03,723
Not since a piece of my
vagina came off in my hand,
1077
00:47:04,223 --> 00:47:06,025
Now one part of the lip,
1078
00:47:06,526 --> 00:47:09,530
One side of the lip
is completely gone.
1079
00:47:11,032 --> 00:47:13,033
My vagina.
1080
00:47:13,033 --> 00:47:17,039
A live, wet, water village.
1081
00:47:17,039 --> 00:47:20,043
My vagina
1082
00:47:20,043 --> 00:47:22,512
Was once my hometown.
1083
00:47:22,512 --> 00:47:25,516
Not since they took turns.
1084
00:47:25,516 --> 00:47:30,522
They took turns for seven days
1085
00:47:30,522 --> 00:47:33,126
Smelling like fece s
and smoked meat.
1086
00:47:34,527 --> 00:47:38,132
They left their dirty
sperm inside me.
1087
00:47:38,132 --> 00:47:43,137
And i became a river
of poison and pus,
1088
00:47:43,137 --> 00:47:46,142
, and all the crops died
1089
00:47:46,142 --> 00:47:48,144
And the fish.
1090
00:47:48,645 --> 00:47:50,647
My vagina...
1091
00:47:50,948 --> 00:47:54,652
A live, wet, water village.
1092
00:47:55,620 --> 00:47:58,122
They invaded it.
1093
00:47:58,623 --> 00:48:01,127
They butchered it
1094
00:48:01,127 --> 00:48:03,630
. And burned it down
1095
00:48:03,630 --> 00:48:07,435
. I do not touch now
1096
00:48:07,435 --> 00:48:08,937
. I do not visit
1097
00:48:10,438 --> 00:48:13,843
I live someplace else now.
1098
00:48:13,843 --> 00:48:17,247
I don't know where that is.
1099
00:48:29,028 --> 00:48:30,630
Has anyone ever hurt your vagina ?
1100
00:48:30,630 --> 00:48:33,434
. The worst thing was
definitely being raped
1101
00:48:33,434 --> 00:48:35,236
And when was that ?
1102
00:48:35,737 --> 00:48:37,639
When i was 14 years old.
1103
00:48:37,639 --> 00:48:40,642
. That was the first time a man
ever did enter my body
1104
00:48:40,642 --> 00:48:42,043
That was when you were a virgin ?
1105
00:48:42,444 --> 00:48:43,847
So, what happened ?
1106
00:48:44,347 --> 00:48:45,849
Uh, he had cut me
with his fingernails,
1107
00:48:45,849 --> 00:48:49,354
And then i walked around
trying not to pee,
1108
00:48:49,354 --> 00:48:52,957
Because it hurt.
1109
00:48:52,957 --> 00:48:55,761
I experienced a date rape in college.
1110
00:48:55,761 --> 00:48:58,265
This was a very close friend
from high school,
1111
00:48:58,265 --> 00:49:01,936
And he one time was staying over
1112
00:49:02,436 --> 00:49:03,838
And woke me up in the middle
of the night,
1113
00:49:03,838 --> 00:49:07,843
And ripped off my underwear,
1114
00:49:07,843 --> 00:49:09,244
Stuffed underwear in my mouth,
1115
00:49:09,244 --> 00:49:13,049
Pinned my knees down with his knees
1116
00:49:13,049 --> 00:49:15,653
And raped me.
1117
00:49:17,054 --> 00:49:18,957
, i was walking home from
my friend's house
1118
00:49:18,957 --> 00:49:21,459
And an older man came up behind me
1119
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:23,461
And put his hand over my mouth,
1120
00:49:23,962 --> 00:49:25,965
And shoved his other hand in my back
1121
00:49:26,466 --> 00:49:28,869
And said, "don't scream
or i'll kill you."
1122
00:49:28,869 --> 00:49:31,673
He beat me and he knifed me
1123
00:49:31,673 --> 00:49:32,674
And he raped me.
1124
00:49:32,674 --> 00:49:34,943
. And he tried to kill me
1125
00:49:36,545 --> 00:49:39,348
It was such an emotional injury,
1126
00:49:39,348 --> 00:49:41,652
That distorts your feelings
about your womanhood,
1127
00:49:42,052 --> 00:49:43,254
Your self,
1128
00:49:43,754 --> 00:49:45,356
Relationships.
1129
00:49:45,356 --> 00:49:48,160
It took a long, long, long time
to trust anyone,
1130
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:51,963
And to make really myself feel
that it was not my fault.
1131
00:49:52,264 --> 00:49:55,068
And thank god i didn't catch
anything behind it.
1132
00:49:55,068 --> 00:49:56,770
But, um...
1133
00:49:56,770 --> 00:50:00,075
I was hurt more than my vagina.
1134
00:50:02,477 --> 00:50:03,578
Thank you.
1135
00:50:09,953 --> 00:50:12,156
My vagina's angry !
1136
00:50:12,156 --> 00:50:13,558
It is !
1137
00:50:13,558 --> 00:50:16,061
It's pissed off !
1138
00:50:16,061 --> 00:50:18,564
My vagina is furious.
1139
00:50:18,564 --> 00:50:20,065
And it needs to talk.
1140
00:50:20,065 --> 00:50:22,067
T it needs to talk about
all this shit
1141
00:50:22,067 --> 00:50:24,071
. And it needs to talk to you
1142
00:50:24,071 --> 00:50:26,574
I mean, what is the deal ?
1143
00:50:26,874 --> 00:50:29,277
An army of people out there
thinking up ways
1144
00:50:29,277 --> 00:50:32,280
To torture my poor-ass,
gentle, loving vagina.
1145
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:34,984
Spending their days constructing
psycho products
1146
00:50:34,984 --> 00:50:38,188
. And nasty ideas to undermine my pussy
1147
00:50:38,188 --> 00:50:40,958
Vagina motherfuckers !
1148
00:50:42,761 --> 00:50:45,564
All this shit they're constantly
trying to shove up us.
1149
00:50:46,165 --> 00:50:48,467
Shove up us, stuff us up,
and make us go away.
1150
00:50:48,467 --> 00:50:50,469
. Well, my vagina's not going away
1151
00:50:50,469 --> 00:50:54,075
It's pissed off and it's
staying right here.
1152
00:50:54,075 --> 00:50:56,478
Is there anything your vagina's
ever been angry at ?
1153
00:50:56,478 --> 00:50:58,480
Hmm.
1154
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:00,582
Ever been angry at ?
1155
00:51:00,582 --> 00:51:03,485
Yes, again it all has to do with the...
1156
00:51:03,485 --> 00:51:06,990
Invasiveness aspect,
1157
00:51:06,990 --> 00:51:09,494
When it's not ready.
1158
00:51:09,494 --> 00:51:12,097
When it hasn't been, um...
1159
00:51:12,097 --> 00:51:14,166
When it hasn't been nurtured.
1160
00:51:14,166 --> 00:51:16,168
Let's just begin with tampons.
1161
00:51:16,168 --> 00:51:17,169
? What the hell is that
1162
00:51:20,173 --> 00:51:22,677
A dry wad of fucking cotton
stuffed up there.
1163
00:51:24,179 --> 00:51:25,681
Why can't they find a way
1164
00:51:26,181 --> 00:51:27,983
To subtly lubricate the tampon ?
1165
00:51:27,983 --> 00:51:30,486
As soon as my vagina sees it,
it goes into shock !
1166
00:51:30,486 --> 00:51:32,288
It closes up.
1167
00:51:32,288 --> 00:51:33,790
It says, "forget it."
1168
00:51:33,790 --> 00:51:37,295
You have to work with the vagina,
1169
00:51:37,295 --> 00:51:39,798
, introduce it to things
1170
00:51:39,798 --> 00:51:41,800
Prepare the way.
1171
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:43,802
That's what foreplay's all about.
1172
00:51:44,303 --> 00:51:46,372
You've got to convince my vagina,
1173
00:51:46,372 --> 00:51:48,574
Seduce my vagina,
1174
00:51:48,574 --> 00:51:50,477
Engage my vagina's trust.
1175
00:51:50,477 --> 00:51:51,980
You can't do that
1176
00:51:51,980 --> 00:51:55,484
! With a dry wad of fucking cotton
1177
00:51:55,484 --> 00:51:57,687
You probably don't remember,
but they used to have, uh,
1178
00:51:58,087 --> 00:52:02,892
Elastic belts with little hooks
and they handed you a pad
1179
00:52:02,892 --> 00:52:05,295
That was like thick enough
1180
00:52:05,295 --> 00:52:07,299
For barbie to use as a raft, you know ?
1181
00:52:07,299 --> 00:52:08,500
It was like gigantic.
1182
00:52:08,500 --> 00:52:10,402
I remember when i was,
1183
00:52:10,903 --> 00:52:13,305
After i'd started my period,
1184
00:52:13,305 --> 00:52:15,408
Spending a summer
trying to figure out
1185
00:52:15,809 --> 00:52:16,610
How to put a tampon in.
1186
00:52:16,610 --> 00:52:19,880
And i remember sort of squatting
over a mirror,
1187
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:23,285
For days and days and days trying
to find the way in.
1188
00:52:23,786 --> 00:52:27,790
Stop shoving things up me !
1189
00:52:27,790 --> 00:52:29,993
Stop shoving and stop
cleaning it up.
1190
00:52:29,993 --> 00:52:32,396
My vagina doesn't need
to be cleaned up.
1191
00:52:32,696 --> 00:52:33,597
. It smells good already
1192
00:52:34,098 --> 00:52:35,601
Don't try to decorate.
1193
00:52:35,601 --> 00:52:37,703
Don't believe him when he tells you
1194
00:52:37,703 --> 00:52:39,705
It smells like rose petals,
1195
00:52:39,705 --> 00:52:42,208
When it's supposed
to smell like pussy.
1196
00:52:45,212 --> 00:52:48,215
That's what they're doing,
you know, trying to clean it up,
1197
00:52:48,215 --> 00:52:52,188
Make it smell like a bathroom
spray or a garden.
1198
00:52:55,191 --> 00:52:57,193
All those douche sprays.
1199
00:52:57,193 --> 00:52:59,195
Floral, berry, rain.
1200
00:52:59,195 --> 00:53:02,199
I don't want my pussy
to smell like rain !
1201
00:53:04,703 --> 00:53:10,009
. All cleaned up like washing
a fish after you've cooked it
1202
00:53:10,009 --> 00:53:12,011
I wanna taste the fish !
1203
00:53:12,011 --> 00:53:14,815
That's why i ordered it !
1204
00:53:14,815 --> 00:53:17,318
You heard the joke about
"good evening, ladies" ?
1205
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:18,621
No.
1206
00:53:19,021 --> 00:53:21,424
, oh, well, it's a joke that goes
1207
00:53:21,424 --> 00:53:23,326
, "a blind man passed
the fish market
1208
00:53:23,326 --> 00:53:25,695
And he says, "good evening, ladies !"
1209
00:53:28,598 --> 00:53:31,803
My fiance says it's like
potpourri and roses.
1210
00:53:31,803 --> 00:53:33,005
That's sick.
1211
00:53:33,005 --> 00:53:34,307
That's like douching with like...
1212
00:53:34,707 --> 00:53:38,011
Fabric fresh or glad or whatever.
1213
00:53:38,011 --> 00:53:40,113
The thing you get like
all freaked out,
1214
00:53:40,113 --> 00:53:41,715
, because there' s all
these warnings
1215
00:53:41,715 --> 00:53:44,218
About the odor, and then
the odor shows up,
1216
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:46,421
And you're like, oh, my god,
what's going on ?
1217
00:53:46,421 --> 00:53:48,024
And then you realize it's normal.
1218
00:53:48,024 --> 00:53:49,726
Then there's those exams.
1219
00:53:49,726 --> 00:53:52,729
Who thought up those exams ?
1220
00:53:52,729 --> 00:53:55,732
. I know there has to
be a better way
1221
00:53:55,732 --> 00:53:59,203
Why the scary paper dress that
scratches your tits ?
1222
00:54:00,805 --> 00:54:03,309
? Why the funky rubber gloves
1223
00:54:03,309 --> 00:54:04,811
Why the flashlight all up there,
1224
00:54:04,811 --> 00:54:07,314
Like nancy drew working
against gravity ?
1225
00:54:07,314 --> 00:54:12,219
Why the nazi steel stirrups ?
1226
00:54:12,219 --> 00:54:15,523
Why the mean, cold duck lips
they shove inside you ?
1227
00:54:16,025 --> 00:54:17,527
! What is that ?
1228
00:54:19,529 --> 00:54:21,531
. My vagina is furious
about these visits
1229
00:54:21,531 --> 00:54:24,234
It gets defended weeks in advance,
1230
00:54:24,234 --> 00:54:25,736
It won't go out of the house.
1231
00:54:25,736 --> 00:54:27,238
, then you get there
1232
00:54:27,238 --> 00:54:28,239
Don't you love that ?
1233
00:54:28,239 --> 00:54:29,741
. "relax your vagina
1234
00:54:30,142 --> 00:54:33,113
Relax, come on, scoot down,
scoot down, relax your vagina."
1235
00:54:34,615 --> 00:54:36,016
Why ?
1236
00:54:36,516 --> 00:54:38,018
My vagina's not stupid.
1237
00:54:38,519 --> 00:54:41,622
You're about to shove mean ,
cold duck lips up inside it !
1238
00:54:41,622 --> 00:54:42,824
. It's just horrible
1239
00:54:42,824 --> 00:54:45,228
First thing, the room is
always very cold.
1240
00:54:45,228 --> 00:54:46,429
You know, you're sitting there,
1241
00:54:46,830 --> 00:54:49,833
. Spreading your legs,
it's just horrible
1242
00:54:49,833 --> 00:54:52,536
What they call a speculum,
or whatever that thing is ?
1243
00:54:52,536 --> 00:54:54,338
I can't stand it,
1244
00:54:54,338 --> 00:54:56,541
Even when that little brush thing
for the pap smear goes in there,
1245
00:54:56,541 --> 00:54:58,243
. It makes me cringe
1246
00:54:58,243 --> 00:54:59,946
And they're like, "oh, does this
hurt when i squeeze here ?"
1247
00:54:59,946 --> 00:55:01,548
Well, yeah.
1248
00:55:01,548 --> 00:55:04,618
You're squeezing my vagina,
it's not a comfortable feeling.
1249
00:55:04,618 --> 00:55:09,123
Why can't they find some nice,
delicious purple velvet
1250
00:55:09,123 --> 00:55:11,126
And wrap it around me,
1251
00:55:11,126 --> 00:55:13,829
, lay me down in some
feathery cotton spread
1252
00:55:13,829 --> 00:55:17,134
Put on some friendly pink
or blue gloves,
1253
00:55:17,134 --> 00:55:20,137
And rest my feet in some
fur-covered stirrups ?
1254
00:55:20,638 --> 00:55:24,643
Warm up the duck lips !
1255
00:55:24,643 --> 00:55:26,645
Work with my vagina !
1256
00:55:29,149 --> 00:55:31,251
! But no, more tortures
1257
00:55:31,251 --> 00:55:32,252
Dry wad of fucking cotton,
1258
00:55:32,753 --> 00:55:34,255
, cold duck lips
1259
00:55:34,755 --> 00:55:37,258
Thong underwear !
1260
00:55:38,326 --> 00:55:39,828
. That shit is the worst
1261
00:55:40,328 --> 00:55:40,829
It is the worst.
1262
00:55:41,330 --> 00:55:42,331
It moves around all the time.
1263
00:55:42,331 --> 00:55:44,334
It gets stuck in the back
of your vagina,
1264
00:55:44,334 --> 00:55:46,337
Real crusty butt.
1265
00:55:47,337 --> 00:55:50,842
The vagina is supposed to
be loose and wide,
1266
00:55:50,842 --> 00:55:52,343
Not held together.
1267
00:55:52,343 --> 00:55:53,845
That's why girdles are so bad.
1268
00:55:53,845 --> 00:55:55,848
We need to move
1269
00:55:56,348 --> 00:55:59,253
And spread and talk.
1270
00:55:59,253 --> 00:56:00,754
Vaginas need to talk.
1271
00:56:00,754 --> 00:56:03,658
Why don't they make
something comfortable,
1272
00:56:03,658 --> 00:56:05,960
? Something to give them pleasure
1273
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:07,462
. Of course they won't do that
1274
00:56:07,462 --> 00:56:09,965
They hate, hate, hate, hate, hate
1275
00:56:09,965 --> 00:56:11,434
To see a woman having pleasure.
1276
00:56:11,434 --> 00:56:13,437
Particularly sexual pleasure.
1277
00:56:13,437 --> 00:56:17,742
I say, make a nice pair of
white cotton underpants
1278
00:56:17,742 --> 00:56:20,545
With a french tickler built in.
1279
00:56:20,545 --> 00:56:23,549
That's right, that's right.
1280
00:56:23,549 --> 00:56:27,054
Women would be coming all day.
1281
00:56:27,555 --> 00:56:29,556
Coming in the supermarkets.
1282
00:56:29,556 --> 00:56:33,862
"give me the juice."
1283
00:56:35,564 --> 00:56:37,066
They wouldn't be able to stand it.
1284
00:56:37,566 --> 00:56:40,069
Seeing all these energized,
not-taking-shit,
1285
00:56:40,069 --> 00:56:42,573
Hot, happy vaginas coming
down the street.
1286
00:56:42,573 --> 00:56:45,543
If my vagina could talk...
1287
00:56:45,543 --> 00:56:47,545
It would talk about itself like me.
1288
00:56:47,545 --> 00:56:50,048
. It would talk about other
fabulous vaginas
1289
00:56:50,048 --> 00:56:53,152
It would do vagina impressions.
1290
00:56:59,460 --> 00:57:01,463
It would wear
harry winston diamonds,
1291
00:57:01,463 --> 00:57:02,964
No clothing.
1292
00:57:02,964 --> 00:57:04,967
Just there, all draped
in the diamonds.
1293
00:57:04,967 --> 00:57:08,471
My vagina helped release
a giant baby.
1294
00:57:08,471 --> 00:57:10,474
It thought it would be
doing more of that.
1295
00:57:10,474 --> 00:57:11,775
It's not.
1296
00:57:12,076 --> 00:57:13,978
Now it wants to travel.
1297
00:57:13,978 --> 00:57:16,481
It does not want a lot of company.
1298
00:57:16,948 --> 00:57:19,952
It wants to read and know
things and get out more.
1299
00:57:19,952 --> 00:57:22,555
It wants sex.
1300
00:57:22,555 --> 00:57:23,356
It loves sex.
1301
00:57:23,857 --> 00:57:25,360
It wants to go deeper.
1302
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:27,862
It's hungry for depth.
1303
00:57:27,862 --> 00:57:30,866
It wants kindness.
1304
00:57:30,866 --> 00:57:32,868
It wants change.
1305
00:57:33,369 --> 00:57:36,372
It wants silence and freedom
1306
00:57:36,372 --> 00:57:39,376
And gentle kisses and warm liquids
1307
00:57:39,877 --> 00:57:41,078
And deep touch.
1308
00:57:41,078 --> 00:57:42,881
. It wants chocolate
1309
00:57:44,382 --> 00:57:46,185
. It wants to scream
1310
00:57:46,185 --> 00:57:49,188
It wants to stop being angry !
1311
00:57:50,456 --> 00:57:52,359
It wants to come.
1312
00:57:52,359 --> 00:57:54,863
It wants to want.
1313
00:57:54,863 --> 00:57:57,365
It wants.
1314
00:57:57,365 --> 00:57:59,368
My vagina, it wants,
1315
00:57:59,868 --> 00:58:02,772
It wants everything.
1316
00:58:10,682 --> 00:58:12,684
i interviewed a whole
group of sex workers,
1317
00:58:12,684 --> 00:58:14,687
And obviously women who do sex work
1318
00:58:15,087 --> 00:58:16,689
Have rich, compelling,
1319
00:58:16,689 --> 00:58:18,692
Complex relationships with their vaginas.
1320
00:58:18,992 --> 00:58:21,594
This particular woman
blew my mind.
1321
00:58:21,594 --> 00:58:25,266
She was a sex worker,
but she only did sex work with women.
1322
00:58:25,767 --> 00:58:26,968
You know when you go
out with someone
1323
00:58:27,369 --> 00:58:28,670
And you think they're in
the same zone as you
1324
00:58:28,670 --> 00:58:30,873
And five minutes into the
conversation you're like,
1325
00:58:30,873 --> 00:58:32,976
"oh, my god !"
1326
00:58:33,376 --> 00:58:34,978
That's what it was like with this woman.
1327
00:58:35,379 --> 00:58:36,180
You know, you try to be hip.
1328
00:58:36,180 --> 00:58:37,382
"right, right."
1329
00:58:37,782 --> 00:58:38,983
Meanwhile your head's
being blown off,
1330
00:58:38,983 --> 00:58:41,687
You just hope your scarf
will conceal it.
1331
00:58:41,687 --> 00:58:43,689
I wrote this for her.
1332
00:58:49,296 --> 00:58:51,399
. I love vaginas
1333
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:53,902
I love women.
1334
00:58:54,403 --> 00:58:57,373
I do not see them as separate things.
1335
00:58:57,873 --> 00:59:00,376
Women pay me to dominate them,
1336
00:59:00,877 --> 00:59:01,878
To excite them,
1337
00:59:01,878 --> 00:59:03,881
To make them come.
1338
00:59:03,881 --> 00:59:06,885
I did not start out like this.
1339
00:59:06,885 --> 00:59:09,388
No, to the contrary...
1340
00:59:09,388 --> 00:59:12,692
I started out as a lawyer.
1341
00:59:15,195 --> 00:59:16,697
, but in my late 30s
1342
00:59:17,197 --> 00:59:21,002
I became obsessed with
making women happy.
1343
00:59:21,503 --> 00:59:24,507
It began as a mission of sorts,
1344
00:59:24,507 --> 00:59:26,509
But then i got involved in it.
1345
00:59:26,509 --> 00:59:30,480
I got very good at it,
kind of brilliant.
1346
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:33,484
You could say i found my calling.
1347
00:59:33,484 --> 00:59:35,887
I started getting paid for it.
1348
00:59:36,388 --> 00:59:39,992
. I wore outrageous outfits
when i dominated women
1349
00:59:39,992 --> 00:59:43,497
Lace, silk,
1350
00:59:43,497 --> 00:59:44,498
Leather.
1351
00:59:44,498 --> 00:59:46,500
I used props...
1352
00:59:46,500 --> 00:59:48,902
Whips, ropes,
1353
00:59:48,902 --> 00:59:51,407
Handcuffs, dildos.
1354
00:59:51,407 --> 00:59:54,911
There was nothing like
this in tax law.
1355
00:59:55,912 --> 00:59:58,916
There was no props , no excitement,
1356
00:59:58,916 --> 01:00:01,886
And i hated those
blue corporate suits,
1357
01:00:01,886 --> 01:00:03,388
Although i have to tell you,
1358
01:00:03,388 --> 01:00:05,891
I wear them now in my
new line of work,
1359
01:00:06,392 --> 01:00:08,895
. And they fit in nicely
1360
01:00:08,895 --> 01:00:10,397
Context is everything.
1361
01:00:10,397 --> 01:00:12,800
There was no wetness.
1362
01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:16,304
There was no dark,
mysterious foreplay.
1363
01:00:16,304 --> 01:00:18,807
No erect nipples.
1364
01:00:19,808 --> 01:00:22,312
No delicious mouths,
1365
01:00:22,312 --> 01:00:25,916
But mainly there was no moaning.
1366
01:00:25,916 --> 01:00:28,719
Not the kind i'm
talking about anyway.
1367
01:00:28,719 --> 01:00:31,222
I see now that moaning
was the key.
1368
01:00:31,222 --> 01:00:33,225
It was the thing that
ultimately seduced me
1369
01:00:33,225 --> 01:00:36,095
And got me addicted
to making women happy.
1370
01:00:36,095 --> 01:00:38,498
I made love to quiet women, okay ?
1371
01:00:38,498 --> 01:00:40,000
I found a place inside them,
1372
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:42,503
They shocked themselves
in their moaning.
1373
01:00:42,503 --> 01:00:45,506
I made love to moaners and
they found a deeper,
1374
01:00:45,506 --> 01:00:46,507
More penetrating moan.
1375
01:00:47,008 --> 01:00:49,011
I became obsessed, i
longed to be in charge,
1376
01:00:49,011 --> 01:00:51,214
Like a bandleader or a conductor.
1377
01:00:51,214 --> 01:00:54,518
, it was a kind of surgery,
a kind of delicate science
1378
01:00:54,518 --> 01:00:58,622
Finding the exact location
or home of the moan.
1379
01:00:59,123 --> 01:01:00,124
That's what i called it.
1380
01:01:01,626 --> 01:01:05,131
Sometimes i found it over
a woman's jeans.
1381
01:01:05,131 --> 01:01:07,134
Sometimes i snuck up on it,
off the record,
1382
01:01:07,634 --> 01:01:09,603
Quietly disarming
the surrounding alarms
1383
01:01:09,603 --> 01:01:11,105
And moving in.
1384
01:01:11,105 --> 01:01:12,607
, sometimes i used force
1385
01:01:12,607 --> 01:01:15,109
But not violent, oppressing force, no.
1386
01:01:15,610 --> 01:01:17,613
More like dominating,
1387
01:01:17,613 --> 01:01:18,615
"i'm gonna take you someplace,
1388
01:01:19,115 --> 01:01:22,119
Why don't you lay back,
enjoy the ride" kind of force.
1389
01:01:24,622 --> 01:01:28,126
Sometimes it was simply mundane.
1390
01:01:28,126 --> 01:01:30,629
I found the moan before
things even started,
1391
01:01:30,629 --> 01:01:33,633
While we were eating chicken
or salad in the kitchen,
1392
01:01:33,633 --> 01:01:35,636
Right there, with my fingers all mixed in
1393
01:01:36,136 --> 01:01:37,638
With the balsamic vinegar.
1394
01:01:37,638 --> 01:01:40,641
Sometimes i used props, i love props.
1395
01:01:41,309 --> 01:01:42,911
Sometimes
1396
01:01:42,911 --> 01:01:45,414
I made the woman find her own moan
1397
01:01:45,414 --> 01:01:46,916
. In front of me
1398
01:01:46,916 --> 01:01:48,919
I waited.
1399
01:01:48,919 --> 01:01:51,422
I stuck it out until
she opened herself.
1400
01:01:51,422 --> 01:01:55,427
I was not fooled by those minor,
more obvious moans.
1401
01:01:55,427 --> 01:01:56,928
No...
1402
01:01:56,928 --> 01:01:58,430
I pushed her further,
1403
01:01:58,730 --> 01:02:00,533
All the way
1404
01:02:00,533 --> 01:02:04,038
Into her power moan.
1405
01:02:04,038 --> 01:02:05,039
Now...
1406
01:02:06,541 --> 01:02:09,544
There's the clit moan.
1407
01:02:09,544 --> 01:02:14,517
Eh, eh, eh...
1408
01:02:15,518 --> 01:02:17,521
The vaginal moan.
1409
01:02:17,521 --> 01:02:22,227
Oh, oh, oh...
1410
01:02:22,227 --> 01:02:24,229
The combo clit-vaginal moan.
1411
01:02:24,229 --> 01:02:30,938
Eh-oh, eh-oh, eh-oh...
1412
01:02:31,939 --> 01:02:33,441
The almost moan.
1413
01:02:38,846 --> 01:02:40,949
. The on-it moan
1414
01:02:40,949 --> 01:02:45,055
Oh... Oh...
1415
01:02:45,556 --> 01:02:47,024
The elegant moan.
1416
01:02:51,930 --> 01:02:53,232
The grace slick moan.
1417
01:02:57,236 --> 01:02:59,339
The wasp moan.
1418
01:03:04,045 --> 01:03:06,548
The semi-religious moan.
1419
01:03:06,548 --> 01:03:09,551
Oy, oy, oy...
1420
01:03:09,551 --> 01:03:10,953
The mountaintop moan.
1421
01:03:14,358 --> 01:03:16,361
The baby moan.
1422
01:03:16,361 --> 01:03:19,164
Oh-ah, oh-ah, oh-ah...
1423
01:03:20,132 --> 01:03:21,133
. The doggy moan
1424
01:03:23,635 --> 01:03:24,636
The southern moan.
1425
01:03:25,137 --> 01:03:28,042
Yea, yea, yea !
1426
01:03:28,042 --> 01:03:30,445
The militant, uninhibited
bisexual moan.
1427
01:03:30,945 --> 01:03:34,450
Ho, ho, ho, ho !
1428
01:03:34,450 --> 01:03:35,951
The machine-gun moan.
1429
01:03:40,556 --> 01:03:42,259
The tortured zen moan.
1430
01:03:42,760 --> 01:03:44,763
Ah, oh, ah...
1431
01:03:49,167 --> 01:03:50,669
The diva moan.
1432
01:03:50,669 --> 01:03:53,739
! Ahhhhhh ! Ahhhhhh
1433
01:03:53,739 --> 01:03:56,644
And finally,
1434
01:03:56,644 --> 01:04:00,048
The surprise triple-orgasm moan.
1435
01:04:00,048 --> 01:04:03,052
Oh, god, that's really good,
don't stop.
1436
01:04:03,052 --> 01:04:06,155
That's, oh, that's it,
that's it, that's it--
1437
01:04:06,155 --> 01:04:07,656
Oh, that's it.
1438
01:04:07,957 --> 01:04:11,262
Oh, my god, oh, that's really good,
oh, that's, oh my god !
1439
01:04:12,964 --> 01:04:15,968
Ahh... !
1440
01:04:30,552 --> 01:04:33,556
Eee-ahhhh... !
1441
01:04:39,964 --> 01:04:40,965
Whoo !
1442
01:04:45,971 --> 01:04:49,976
? Can you believe we're doing this on hbo
1443
01:04:51,478 --> 01:04:54,983
. Orgasms on hbo , i'm so excited
1444
01:04:58,087 --> 01:05:01,658
I've been collecting vagina
fact s for quite some time,
1445
01:05:01,658 --> 01:05:03,659
And i have to tell you,
1446
01:05:03,659 --> 01:05:06,162
I've been hard-pressed to
find a happy vagina fact.
1447
01:05:06,162 --> 01:05:09,167
I found this one and now
i think i live to tell it.
1448
01:05:09,467 --> 01:05:12,872
The clitoris i s pure in purpose.
1449
01:05:12,872 --> 01:05:16,375
It is the only organ in
the male or female body
1450
01:05:16,876 --> 01:05:18,878
Designed solely for pleasure.
1451
01:05:18,878 --> 01:05:22,884
The clitoris is simply
a bundle of nerves,
1452
01:05:22,884 --> 01:05:26,389
8,000 nerve fibers ,
to be precise.
1453
01:05:26,389 --> 01:05:29,592
That is a higher concentration
of nerve fibers
1454
01:05:29,592 --> 01:05:32,095
Than is found anywhere
else in the body,
1455
01:05:32,562 --> 01:05:34,063
Including the fingertips,
1456
01:05:34,063 --> 01:05:36,066
Lips, and tongue.
1457
01:05:36,066 --> 01:05:38,270
And it is twice...
1458
01:05:38,570 --> 01:05:40,272
Twice...
1459
01:05:40,773 --> 01:05:42,875
Twice...
1460
01:05:42,876 --> 01:05:45,878
The number in the penis.
1461
01:05:47,981 --> 01:05:49,383
Do you wan t to go first ?
1462
01:05:49,383 --> 01:05:50,784
You go first, let's see.
1463
01:05:50,784 --> 01:05:52,087
Uh, you go first.
1464
01:05:52,588 --> 01:05:54,190
You go first.
1465
01:05:54,190 --> 01:05:55,691
Okay, first i feel it in my head.
1466
01:05:55,691 --> 01:05:57,293
Before i feel it anywhere else.
1467
01:05:57,293 --> 01:05:58,494
I do, i feel it like
right here in my head.
1468
01:05:58,894 --> 01:06:00,597
And then it like travels down,
1469
01:06:00,597 --> 01:06:03,100
And it's the most
incredible sensation.
1470
01:06:03,100 --> 01:06:06,171
I scream and i yell,
and i say, you know...
1471
01:06:06,171 --> 01:06:09,375
"more, it's good."
1472
01:06:09,375 --> 01:06:11,478
, i have to squeeze
all my muscles
1473
01:06:11,478 --> 01:06:13,379
Pretty much, it's like every
single muscle in my body.
1474
01:06:13,680 --> 01:06:16,182
Yeah, i start breathing
heavier, and honestly,
1475
01:06:16,182 --> 01:06:17,885
You feel like you're
going to explode.
1476
01:06:17,885 --> 01:06:19,186
It's like...
1477
01:06:19,587 --> 01:06:22,591
You kind of lose your
mind for a little bit,
1478
01:06:22,591 --> 01:06:23,793
You just kind of go crazy.
1479
01:06:23,793 --> 01:06:25,695
It's sort of an eruptive state,
1480
01:06:26,095 --> 01:06:28,097
It's a rising, ignited state.
1481
01:06:28,097 --> 01:06:31,201
It can be kind of a boom,
or it can be soft.
1482
01:06:31,502 --> 01:06:34,105
Ah, ah !
1483
01:06:34,405 --> 01:06:36,409
It's just like, whew.
1484
01:06:36,409 --> 01:06:37,710
Yes !
1485
01:06:37,710 --> 01:06:39,779
Oh, oh !
1486
01:06:42,882 --> 01:06:46,086
I'd been performing this piece
for quite some time,
1487
01:06:46,087 --> 01:06:49,090
And i didn't have one monologue
in it about birth,
1488
01:06:49,091 --> 01:06:51,594
Which was a bizarre omission,
1489
01:06:51,594 --> 01:06:54,097
Although recently i was interviewed
1490
01:06:54,097 --> 01:06:55,598
By a male journalist,
and he said,
1491
01:06:55,598 --> 01:06:57,100
"really, what's the connection ?"
1492
01:06:58,902 --> 01:07:01,305
My husband was there,
and the doctor was there,
1493
01:07:01,305 --> 01:07:02,607
And the nurse, and my sister,
1494
01:07:02,607 --> 01:07:04,510
And they were holding my legs
and telling me to push...
1495
01:07:04,510 --> 01:07:05,812
, when they said
1496
01:07:05,812 --> 01:07:07,413
"oh, we can see the
head, one big push
1497
01:07:07,814 --> 01:07:09,015
And you could push that baby out,"
1498
01:07:09,015 --> 01:07:11,985
And there's this sort of bone
cracking, you know,
1499
01:07:11,985 --> 01:07:14,288
Stretchy sound.
1500
01:07:14,288 --> 01:07:18,393
I felt this very strange sensation
1501
01:07:18,393 --> 01:07:21,898
Of like something swimming
through my body.
1502
01:07:21,898 --> 01:07:25,201
And i realized, oh, my god,
1503
01:07:25,201 --> 01:07:26,803
He's coming out,
he's coming out.
1504
01:07:26,803 --> 01:07:28,405
So, i just kept pushing harder.
1505
01:07:28,405 --> 01:07:31,209
And then finally there
he was, upside down,
1506
01:07:31,209 --> 01:07:34,013
Hanging by his legs,
and he was okay.
1507
01:07:34,013 --> 01:07:36,116
It's so, i can't wait
'til you experience it.
1508
01:07:36,416 --> 01:07:38,017
I know you can't.
1509
01:07:38,017 --> 01:07:39,519
I cannot wait.
1510
01:07:39,920 --> 01:07:41,321
It's so wonderful.
1511
01:07:41,321 --> 01:07:42,623
I can't wait.
1512
01:07:43,024 --> 01:07:43,825
It's just...
1513
01:07:43,825 --> 01:07:46,194
It's the best thing ever.
1514
01:07:48,298 --> 01:07:50,000
Over the course of
writing the monologues,
1515
01:07:50,400 --> 01:07:52,903
My daughter-in-law got pregnant,
1516
01:07:52,903 --> 01:07:55,706
And she and my son invited me to be there
1517
01:07:55,706 --> 01:07:57,708
For the birth of my granddaughter.
1518
01:07:57,708 --> 01:07:59,310
And i have to tell you,
1519
01:07:59,310 --> 01:08:02,515
If i was in awe of vaginas
before this moment,
1520
01:08:02,515 --> 01:08:05,318
I'm in deep worship now.
1521
01:08:05,318 --> 01:08:07,721
I wrote this for my
daughter-in-law, shiva,
1522
01:08:07,721 --> 01:08:11,526
And my granddaughter coco.
1523
01:08:16,433 --> 01:08:18,902
I was there
1524
01:08:18,902 --> 01:08:21,905
. When her vagina opened
1525
01:08:22,906 --> 01:08:25,409
We were all there...
1526
01:08:25,409 --> 01:08:28,914
Her mother, her husband and i,
1527
01:08:28,914 --> 01:08:31,318
And the nurse from the ukraine
1528
01:08:31,318 --> 01:08:34,821
With her whole hand up there,
in her vagina,
1529
01:08:34,823 --> 01:08:37,825
Feeling and turning with
her rubber glove,
1530
01:08:37,827 --> 01:08:40,328
, as she talked casually to us
1531
01:08:40,330 --> 01:08:43,332
. Like she was turning
on a loaded faucet
1532
01:08:43,834 --> 01:08:47,337
I was there in the room
when the contractions
1533
01:08:47,339 --> 01:08:50,340
Made her crawl on all fours,
1534
01:08:50,340 --> 01:08:54,812
Made unfamiliar moans leak
out of her pores.
1535
01:08:54,814 --> 01:08:57,816
And still there, after hours,
1536
01:08:57,818 --> 01:09:00,320
When she just screamed, suddenly wild,
1537
01:09:00,322 --> 01:09:04,324
Her arms striking at the electric air.
1538
01:09:04,825 --> 01:09:07,328
I was there when her vagina changed...
1539
01:09:07,328 --> 01:09:09,831
From a shy, sexual hole
1540
01:09:09,831 --> 01:09:12,835
To an archaeological tunnel,
1541
01:09:12,835 --> 01:09:14,838
A sacred vessel,
1542
01:09:14,838 --> 01:09:17,240
A venetian canal,
1543
01:09:17,240 --> 01:09:20,845
A deep well with a tiny
stuck child inside,
1544
01:09:20,847 --> 01:09:23,348
Waiting to be rescued.
1545
01:09:23,350 --> 01:09:27,319
I saw the colors of her vagina.
1546
01:09:27,319 --> 01:09:29,323
They changed.
1547
01:09:29,323 --> 01:09:31,325
Saw the bruised broken blue,
1548
01:09:31,325 --> 01:09:34,328
The blistering tomato red,
1549
01:09:34,330 --> 01:09:35,830
The gray-pink, the dark,
1550
01:09:36,230 --> 01:09:39,234
Saw the blood-like perspiration
along the edges,
1551
01:09:39,234 --> 01:09:41,737
Saw the yellow, white liquid,
1552
01:09:42,238 --> 01:09:44,742
The shit, the clots pushing
out all the holes,
1553
01:09:44,744 --> 01:09:47,244
Pushing harder and harder,
1554
01:09:47,244 --> 01:09:50,248
Saw through the hole,
1555
01:09:50,248 --> 01:09:52,751
The baby's head.
1556
01:09:53,252 --> 01:09:55,755
Scratches of black hair,
1557
01:09:55,755 --> 01:09:58,726
Saw it just there,
1558
01:09:58,726 --> 01:10:00,728
Behind the bone.
1559
01:10:00,730 --> 01:10:03,631
Like a hard, round memory,
1560
01:10:03,631 --> 01:10:06,635
As the nurse from the ukraine
1561
01:10:06,637 --> 01:10:09,839
Kept turning and turning
her slippery hand.
1562
01:10:09,841 --> 01:10:12,242
I was there when each of us,
1563
01:10:12,242 --> 01:10:14,245
Her mother and i,
1564
01:10:14,245 --> 01:10:17,248
Held a leg and spread her wide,
1565
01:10:17,548 --> 01:10:20,853
Pushing with all our strength
against her pushing,
1566
01:10:21,353 --> 01:10:23,856
As her husband sternly counting,
1567
01:10:24,357 --> 01:10:26,359
"one, two, three,"
1568
01:10:26,359 --> 01:10:29,831
Telling her, "focus, focus harder."
1569
01:10:31,833 --> 01:10:33,835
We looked into her then.
1570
01:10:34,336 --> 01:10:37,339
We couldn't get our eyes
1571
01:10:37,840 --> 01:10:39,342
Out of that place.
1572
01:10:39,342 --> 01:10:43,347
We forget the vagina,
1573
01:10:43,349 --> 01:10:45,349
All of us.
1574
01:10:45,349 --> 01:10:49,254
What else would explain
our lack of awe,
1575
01:10:49,256 --> 01:10:52,759
Our lack of reverence ?
1576
01:10:52,759 --> 01:10:55,762
I was there when the
doctor reached in
1577
01:10:55,762 --> 01:10:58,266
With alice in wonderland spoons
1578
01:10:58,266 --> 01:11:01,169
And there as her vagina
1579
01:11:01,670 --> 01:11:03,639
Became a wide, operatic mouth
1580
01:11:03,641 --> 01:11:05,641
Singing with all its strength,
1581
01:11:05,641 --> 01:11:09,146
First the little head,
1582
01:11:09,146 --> 01:11:13,151
. Then the gray flopping arm..
1583
01:11:13,153 --> 01:11:14,652
Then the fast, swimming body,
1584
01:11:14,652 --> 01:11:19,158
Swimming quickly into
our weeping arms.
1585
01:11:20,159 --> 01:11:22,162
I was there later
1586
01:11:22,164 --> 01:11:24,164
, when i just turned
1587
01:11:24,164 --> 01:11:28,069
I turned and i faced her vagina.
1588
01:11:28,069 --> 01:11:30,072
I stood and i let myself see her,
1589
01:11:30,074 --> 01:11:33,576
All spread, completely exposed,
1590
01:11:34,077 --> 01:11:37,047
Mutilated, swollen, torn,
1591
01:11:37,047 --> 01:11:39,451
Bleeding all over
the doctor's hands,
1592
01:11:39,453 --> 01:11:42,053
Who was calmly sewing her there.
1593
01:11:42,055 --> 01:11:44,055
I stood...
1594
01:11:44,055 --> 01:11:46,559
And as i stared,
1595
01:11:46,559 --> 01:11:50,464
Her vagina suddenly became
1596
01:11:50,964 --> 01:11:53,968
A wide, red,
1597
01:11:53,970 --> 01:11:58,474
Pulsing heart.
1598
01:11:58,476 --> 01:12:03,480
The heart is capable
of sacrifice.
1599
01:12:03,480 --> 01:12:05,482
So is the vagina.
1600
01:12:05,484 --> 01:12:08,954
. The heart is able to
forgive and repair
1601
01:12:08,956 --> 01:12:11,456
. It can change its
shape to let us in
1602
01:12:11,458 --> 01:12:15,461
It can expand to let us out.
1603
01:12:15,463 --> 01:12:17,864
So can the vagina.
1604
01:12:17,866 --> 01:12:21,469
It can ache for us
and stretch for us,
1605
01:12:21,971 --> 01:12:25,474
And die for us.
1606
01:12:25,476 --> 01:12:30,480
And bleed and bleed us
into this difficult...
1607
01:12:30,980 --> 01:12:31,982
Wondrous world.
1608
01:12:33,484 --> 01:12:37,889
So can the vagina.
1609
01:12:37,891 --> 01:12:40,893
I was there in the room.
1610
01:12:40,894 --> 01:12:43,863
I remember.
1611
01:14:13,307 --> 01:14:15,710
Well, i didn't really want
to show vaginas...
1612
01:14:15,711 --> 01:14:17,311
In this movie.
1613
01:14:17,312 --> 01:14:18,914
I kind of resisted it,
1614
01:14:18,915 --> 01:14:21,284
But HBO, really wouldn't
be an HBO movie,
1615
01:14:21,685 --> 01:14:22,886
Without showing a vagina.
1616
01:14:22,887 --> 01:14:24,488
So, here we go, here we go.
1617
01:14:24,489 --> 01:14:26,190
Okay, we're done.
1617
01:14:30,000 --> 01:14:35,000
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