
During the development of industrialized societies, our notion of the vagina has changed so much that we've lost a lot of the beautiful symbolism that was at the forefront of Eastern cultures. Nisbett, a psychologist at the University of Michigan, says in his book The Geography of Thought that our brains neurally encode the perceptions that are offered to us by our surrounding culture this means that if a woman continually hears of her vagina being compared to something unpleasant, her mind will shape itself around that idea. It was referred to as a "flowery pool" or "mysterious gate." Now that sounds more like it.
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Wolf writes of the Indian Tantric culture, from 1500 years ago, and the 1000-year-old Chinese Han dynasty both believed our lady parts were life-giving, and if men ever wanted to reach balance and health in their lives, they had to learn how to properly handle that region of a woman's body.

The vagina was once considered an incredibly sacred thing, the gateway between heaven and planet Earth.

Terms like "panty hamster" and "beaver" need to be retired, as writer Naomi Wolf reminds us in her book Vagina: A New Biography.

A lot of the words used to speak of our lady parts are, frankly, a bit nasty. With all the nicknames floating around for the vagina - and the websites dedicated to hashing them out - we have to wonder if all the seemingly playful banter is doing us any good.
