I have spent a disturbing few days with my nose buried in Naomi Wolf’s Vagina. Naomi Wolf’s Vagina is warm and inviting, but seems to lack depth. Naomi Wolf’s Vagina is over-exposed. Naomi Wolf’s Vagina is crassly attention-seeking. Naomi Wolf’s Vagina is available in all good bookshops. There is something fishy about . . . no, actually, can I stop now? Are we done? Good.
The new book by Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth, seems positioned to provoke endless genital wordplay, so it’s best to get all of that out the way before we move on. Vagina, as has been observed across the mainstream reviewing press this week, is a very silly book. It is, not incidentally, a very silly book whose author is currently engaged in a one-woman campaign to deny anonymity to rape victims and persuade the world that the charges of rape and sexual assault of two women currently facing Julian Assange are contemptible. The fact that Wolf’s highly publicised new work claims to offer a thrilling new feminist take on – among other serious issues – rape, means that we cannot help but address the two together.
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