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Dangers of the vagina

Name: Dangers of the vagina
Creator: Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
Keywords: 05 social sciences, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Gender Identity, Fantasy, Menstruation, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, 5. Gender equality, Psychoanalytic Theory, Vagina

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Dec 1985 English Publisher:WileyJournal:British Journal of Medical Psychology, volume 58, pages 351-356 (issn: 0007-1129,

Authors: Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi;

doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8341.1985.tb02652.x

pmid: 3841494

Dangers of the vagina

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Abstract

Beliefs, myths, and literary expressions of men's fear of female genitals are reviewed. Both clinical evidence and folklore provide evidence that men imagine female genitals not only as a source of pleasure and attraction, but also as a source of danger in a very physical sense. The vagina dentata myth has many versions, including some modern ones, and its message is always the same: an awesome danger emanating from a woman's body. The prevalence of such feelings in folklore and in literature is noted.

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Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Gender Identity, Fantasy, Menstruation, Psychoanalytic Theory, Vagina, Taboo, Humans, Female, Identification, Psychological

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