Idea for MV

Lori and I met as graduate students at Indiana University South Bend and we share a similar writing style, one that sprinkles a pinch of levity on top of the typically dry and humorless academic research writing, much to the exasperation and amusement of our professors!

The idea for The Medieval Vagina emerged from my master's thesis project and a series of Facebook messages with Lori. In short, the medieval views, attitudes, and anecdote I was unearthing in my research were simply too delicious to leave buried, yet too …well, delicious…for academic writing. I wanted to draw out this information and offer it to the general public in the form of an accessible non-fiction read but I knew I couldn't do it alone. Lori has experience in both writing and publishing.

That, plus that whole similar writing style thing, made us the perfect writing partners. With encouragement from our husbands, instructors and fellow graduate students, we embarked on a journey of discovery and research to simultaneously unearth all things medieval and all things vaginal.

The fruit of this labor is The Medieval Vagina, a collection of evidence showing that, although the Middle Ages was a male-dominated era, there was no escaping the mysterious allure and frightening repulsion of this unique, multi-functional feminine organ – and that is the paradox of the vagina.