VAGINA: A NEW BIOGRAPHY By Naomi Wolf Virago, $29.99 THE nastiest name ever to be given to the female sex organ is ''vagina''. ''Vagina'' is Latin for ''scabbard'' or ''sword sheath''. A scabbard is owned by the same person as owns the sword that it exists to house. The word is more, not less, offensive because it is doctor-speak. There is a word for the female sex organ, a magical word. To hear it said makes strong men flinch; to hear it said by a woman unleashes pandemonium. It is the last sacred word in English, so I shall not debase it by using it here. Vagina: A New Biography is largely a biography of Naomi Wolf herself. We learn that ''due to a medical crisis'' she had ''a revelatory...
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