The Vagina Monologues

The Vagina Monologues is an episodic play written by Eve Ensler. It premiered Off-Broadway in 1996 and won an Obie Award. She originally starred in it, playing all the various women who share their views about their vaginas with the audience; when she left the play it was recast with three celebrity monologists. The production has been staged internationally, and a television version featuring Ensler was produced by cable TV channel HBO.

Criticism of The Vagina Monologues

Feminist criticism

The Vagina Monologues has been criticized by a number of people in the pro-sex feminist, gender egalitarian, and individualist feminist movements. Pro-sex feminist Betty Dodson saw the play as having a negative and restrictive view of sexuality and an anti-male bias http://bettydodson.com/vaginano.htm. Individualist feminist Wendy McElroy shared many of Dodson's views http://www.zetetics.com/mac/ifeminists/2002/0212.html http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2000/0803.html.

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Pro-sex feminist - Gender egalitarian - Individualist feminist - Betty Dodson - Wendy McElroy

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Social conservative criticism

The play has also been criticized by social conservatives, such as the ASDTFP. The ASDTFP denounced it as "a piece replete with sexual encounters, lust, graphic descriptions of masturbation and lesbian behavior" http://tfp.org/student_action/activities/protests/monologues_protest_2004.htm, urging students and parents to protest. As a result of ASDTFP protests, performances were cancelled at sixteen Catholic colleges.

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Social conservatives - ASDTFP - Masturbation - Lesbian - Catholic - Colleges

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Several performances of the play had also been banned due to blunders along the red tape by municipal authorities within the People's Republic of China.

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