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My Daughter’s Vagina, Part 10

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9 Update: I have decided to take the text of this post down until I have a chance to revise and repost it. … Continue reading

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My Daughter’s Vagina, Part 9

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8 It’s funny how memory works. When I wrote before that I could not identify at all with Walter’s fantasy about fucking a woman to … Continue reading

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My Daughter’s Vagina, Part 8

I have been home, laid up with a severe case of gout, and so I have had the time to work on this more than in the recent past. I have been gratified, really gratified, by the responses. Thank you. … Continue reading

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My Daughter’s Vagina, Part 7

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 The students in a remedial composition class I’m teaching during my second semester as a college professor are reading aloud and commenting on fables they’ve written over the … Continue reading

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My Daughter’s Vagina, Part 6

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 The next words I want to give you are not mine: During the course of the Independent Study work I did on personal essays this semester and when I was … Continue reading

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Reviewer Sought

This is a bit awkward for me, but people have responded so positively to the “My Daughter’s Vagina” series–which I will get back to as soon as my work schedule permits–that I hope what I want to ask will not … Continue reading

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My Daughter’s Vagina, Part 5

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 “Are you a virgin?” I”d been trying to ask Jennifer this question almost from the moment our relationship had become physical. She looked surprised, but not–as I had feared–offended. “Are you?” she … Continue reading

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My Daughter’s Vagina, Part 4

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 At eleven, I’m the youngest of eight boys lined up along one row of lockers in the otherwise empty men’s locker room at the swimming pool to which the day camp I am attending … Continue reading

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My Daughter’s Vagina, Part 3

If you haven’t already, I urge you to read Part 1 and Part 2. (If you haven’t read Part 2, or haven’t read it in a while, you might want to read it before reading Part 3, if only because the last paragraph … Continue reading

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My Daughter’s Vagina, Part 2

To read Part 1, go here. You have to wonder what kind of research he did and how he did it. Did he interview women? Create a list of all the possibilities he could imagine and ask them to check … Continue reading

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My Daughter’s Vagina, Part 1

“My Daughter’s Vagina” is the title of an essay I wrote about five years ago that was published online here but that I have never really felt comfortable with as a finished piece. Not too long ago, I came up … Continue reading

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