´I was worried about vaginas. I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don´t think about them ... So I decided to talk to women about their vaginas, to do vagina interviews, which became vagina monologues. I talked with over two hundred women. I talked to old women, young women, married women, single women, lesbians, college professors, actors, corporate professionals, sex workers, African American women, Hispanic women, Asian American women, Native American women, Caucasian women, Jewish women. At first women were reluctant to talk. They were a little shy. But once they got going, you couldn´t stop them´So begins The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler´s hilarious, eye-opening tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone. It is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. Adapted from the award-winning one-woman show that´s rocked audiences around the world, this groundbreaking book gives voice to a chorus of lusty, outrageous, poignant, and thoroughly human stories, transforming the question mark hovering over the female anatomy into a permanent victory sign.Celebrated as the bible for a new generation of women, The Vagina Monologues has been performed around the world. It inspired a dynamic grassroots movement - V-Day - to stop violence against women. Witty andirreverent, compassionate and wise, Eve Ensler´s award-winning masterpiece gives voice to women´s deepest fantasies and fears, guaranteeing that no one who reads it will ever look at a woman´s body, or think of sex, in quite the same way again.This expanded edition of the international bestseller features a diverse set of seven new monologues, as well as a new introduction by Jacqueline Woodson, author and a leader in feminist thought, and a new afterword about the global influence of The Vagina Monologues.