Vagina Monologues: A Women's Comfort

As much as i felt out of place reading these monologues, after a certain point i couldn't put them down. Page after page my interest grew stronger and stronger. Stories of women and their struggles, how they felt about themselves, what it took to become a confident person in their own sexuality kept me reading on. Before reading this book, i had no clue what women thought about themselves or how they dealt with many things. Speaking honestly, i thought that women were very emotional because that was just the way things were. But just like men, women have a lot of built up emotions inside that they don't get to release especially when it comes to their sexual well being. As a man, i know that satisfaction sexually can come from many places. We have confidence in our body parts and are able to openly talk and express our thoughts, but for women true satisfaction only comes from the comfortability with themselves and their sexual organs. Women are not able to speak as freely about themselves as men and also aren't comfortable with themselves. As Eave said in her monologues, many women have never even seen their own body to the fullest. In the monologue, The Flood, Eve talks to an older women who is seventy-two. She explains her story about how she felt so uncomfortable with the fact that she had an orgasm and the way the male reacted to it that she never used her vagina. He was turned off by the fact that she did this in his car and all the attributes that come with an orgasm. The smell, the look and the feeling of the orgasm kept her away. She claimed that she thought of her vagina as a "cellar" or "basement". It was something that belonged but wasn't used much. From a mans perspective, we would never think of our penis in this way. Society has made it acceptable for men to be proud of their penises and women to be secretive of their vaginas. In the forewords, Eve speaks about the symbol for hearts and how it was once used in some cultures as a symbol for female genitalia. Now, the symbol has changed from a sexual symbol to a romantic one giving the heart a lesser meaning. In the end, this shows how much women have been degraded throughout time.