Part 2 Summary

In an opening comment, the author lists several sometimes humorous euphemisms for vagina, comments on the strangeness of the word, and describes how difficult it actually is for a woman to actually see her vagina. This, she writes, is why she decided to talk to women, even though they were often reluctant, about their vaginas.

In her introduction to the actual monologues, the author comments on the process she used to accumulate/shape the monologues, and suggests that the subject of this first monologue, in one way or another, came up in every interview.

"Hair" The speaker of the monologue describes how her husband didn't like the hair around her vagina and made her shave it. She describes her discomfort, how she let the hair grow back, how her husband started "screwing around" on her because, as he says, she didn't please him...