Naomi Wolf

sense of relief and joy at being so completely “accepted” and so fully “welcomed.”

women underestimate the importance to men of women’s acceptance of them.

Female sexual pleasure, rightly understood, is not just about sexuality, or just about pleasure. It serves, also, as a medium of female self-knowledge and hopefulness; female creativity and courage; female focus and initiative; female bliss and transcendence; and as medium of a sensibility that feels very much like freedom.

that the vagina and the brain are essentially one network, or “one whole system,”

vagina mediates female confidence, creativity, and sense of transcendence—the answers to many of these seeming mysteries fall into place.

women, sexual response involves entering an altered state of consciousness

enter the transcendental state that takes the female brain into “high” orgasm, you absolutely need to feel safe; safe from “bad stress,” i

A low-stress environment of soft lighting, soothing music, caring attendants, and the loving presence of family, all actually helped the female body birth a baby, and then feed a newborn, successfully, in clinically measurable ways.

The trance stat

Relaxing allows for female arousal.