Meet your incredible pelvic nerve -- Your dreamy autonomic nervous system -- Confidence, creativity, and the sense of interconnectedness -- Dopamine, opioids, and oxytocin -- What we "know" about female sexuality is out of date -- The traumatized vagina -- The vagina began as sacred -- The Victorian vagina : medicalization and subjugation -- Modernism : the "liberated" vagina -- "The worst word there is?" -- How funny was that? -- The pornographic vagina -- "The beloved is me" -- Radical pleasure, radical awakening : the vagina as liberator -- Conclusion : reclaiming the goddess.