Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues may initially draw some readers away, due to the explicit title. People automatically assume that the book is saturated with sex. And it is not, although sex sales. This book is primarily about women and their struggles in the skin they're in. These monologues have the ability to touch every women in the audience, the stories are so relate-able.
Both men and women can benefit from watching a production of the monologues or from reading the book. They can learn valuable lessons that are applicable throughout everyday life. One of the biggest things I took from the book was a new found love and appreciation for myself and other women.
Women have overcome so many struggles, from not having the right to vote, to finally being accepted in the workplace that it is disgusting that women still are being mistreated. Not just solely by the hands of a man, but by society in general. Ensler touches on the many instances where women have been wronged; from women being used as sex slaves, women being sexually mutilated, and etc.
Women are seen as sexual beings and not for what they truly are HUMANS, with red blood, hot breath, with arms and legs. We should all take a stand and care for the rights of women!
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