Feminist historian Riane Eisler describes how our Neolithic and Paleolithic ancestors imagined a woman’s body and pussy as a magical vessel. As she explains, our ancestors marveled at the way it bleeds in rhythm with the moon, miraculously creates life, and produces milk to feed its offspring. Not to mention the magical way a woman can cause a

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I couldn’t wait to be inducted into the ranks of this female frustration—​the period as albatross, lunar burden, exit ticket from Eden, keys to the authenticity kingdom. Bleeding among the sharks meant being eligible for men, which meant being eligible for hope, loss, degradation, objectification, desire, and being desired—​a whole world of ways to

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