The experiences of the past couple of years have knocked me off kilter, and I have to also keep being honest with myself about that. I have to learn to just keep coming back to myself, ‘millihill’, and reminding myself that I am ‘enough’. I like to create new things all the time and be multi-dimensional, but then I find myself struggling to focus and feeling thinly spread.
This has been born out of a growing understanding of how substack works, its strengths and its limitations, but also out of a growing understanding of my own strengths and limitations.
The eagle eyed of you will notice that I’ve changed the URL of this substack back to ‘millihill’ rather than ‘thebookforge’. I’ve also been thinking a little bit about myself and my own identity, online in particular. And my editor has given feedback on chapter 2 - plenty of notes and queries but overall, ‘ I love it ’. I’m moving in to more familiar territory with these two chapters, my focus shifting on to pregnancy and birth, for a little while, at least. With a wide-ranging perspective that takes in prehistoric art, ancient history, linguistics, mythology and folklore, evolutionary theory, reproductive biology and medicine, Catherine Blackledge unveils the hidden marvels of the female form.I’ve had a little break for half term, although all the time, thoughts about chapters 3 and 4 have been percolating around my mind. The result is nothing less than a vaginal revolution. In the past, medicine may have misrepresented female sexual anatomy, reducing its remarkable complexities to the notion of a passive vessel, but, as this book shows, science is at last beginning to reveal the true structure and function of female genitalia and the dynamic nature of the vagina’s role in both sexual pleasure and reproduction. More than two millennia of misinformation has resulted in a Western culture where we refrain from mentioning or showing the vagina where this organ, when seen publicly, is most commonly viewed as pornographic and where, of all the organs of the human body, the vagina remains the most clouded in mystery, myth, and biased, out-dated beliefs. The Story of V explores how female genitalia have been and continue to be conceived and misconceived. Yet why is it that we know less about the vagina-its structure and function-than we do about any other organ of the human body? It is also a potent arouser of sexuality. It is the seat of female sexual pleasure, the site of the creation of humankind, and the channel for its birth.
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