Practicing vaginistic femininity: Doing bodies, enacting normative heterosexuality
Vaginismus is a female sexual pain disorder, characterized by contractions of the pubococcygeus (PC) muscle that surrounds the outer third of the vagina, which makes penetrative penile-vaginal intercourse (coitus), insertion of a finger or tampon and gynecological examinations hard or impossible, an...
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Language: | English |
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University of Bucharest
2015-12-01
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Series: | Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology |
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Online Access: | http://compaso.eu/wpd/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Compaso2015-62-Stelko.pdf |