Hearing the word 'vagina' aloud before 1996, outside of a medical setting, was a bit startling. Encountering it in an article was likely to cause many readers more than a bit of surprise. Seeing it in newspaper ads, on posters or even on the sides of buses was seen as downright shocking. I remember it well. Thanks to Eve Ensler's groundbreaking The Vagina Monologues in 1996, the perfectly accurate, non-slang te…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 12:02PM on February 26, 2016