I haven't read The Vagina Monologues in its entirety yet; neither have I ever seen it on stage. I have no burning desire to do so, only a vague morbid curiosity. Friends of mine have performed in it, and I've seen some excerpts. I distinctly remember one about women's body hair, and I thought it was hideous. It was practically a love poem to pubic hair, and I could not understand how any female - much less the liberated feminist types - could have found it affirming. Rapturous odes to the "beauty" of coarse hair creeping down thighs aside, what it boiled down was a woman saying this: "I am insecure without my pubic hair, because it's a curtain hiding my genitalia from me and everyone else. I hate how vulnerable and sexually aware I feel when I am bare. I am uncomfortable when men prefer me without it, and I'm mad at them when they want me to get rid of it because I perceive that as a mysoginistic power play." And so on.
This little essay all but implied that those women who remove their pubic hair are just acquiesing to the oppresive sexual desires of porn-fed and possibly pedophilic males. I guess these women who perish the thought of taking it all off simply don't understand why so many women happily do so. That those of us who made the choice to go bare did so of our own volition. That taking off the hair was about our own sexual pleasure first and foremost. That we are confident enough in our own skin that we aren't afraid of our bare flesh.
I think what fundamentally irked me was that yet again, well-intentioned feminists are dragging politics into the bedroom. It's bad enough that Christians want to drag Jesus into everbody's boudoir, but now liberals are fighting back by dragging academic political statements into the sack. With the way these factions are trying to crowd bedrooms everywhere with ideology, one begins to wonder if there will be any room left for fucking.
Neither Christians nor feminists seem to understand that making sexuality into a political or religious expression results in the death of genuine human intimacy. These groups want to tell everyone what sex is "about," when the reality is that sex is about nothing except what consenting people do with each other. Sex is bodies in motion, and whatever we choose to say to each other with our bodies is our own business, our own decision. Don't listen to the special interest groups lobbying to define your sexuality. Just lay back and enjoy the ride.