Vulva Slideshow

During the month of February in 1973, I was running the next round of sexual CR groups when I got a call from Dell Williams. She insisted I get involved in the planning committee for the NOW Sexuality Conference. Dell would later open the first women's sex shop in New York City. Like me, she too was a Wilhelm Reich enthusiast and we both agreed about the importance of women's sexual liberation.

At the third planning session, with twenty other women present, Dell asked what I wanted to do at the big gathering on Sunday to end the three day conference. When I said, "I'd like to do a slide show of split beaver for feminists," there were blank expressions on every woman's face in the room. No one knew what I was talking about, so I explained that "Split Beaver" was porno slang for a photo of a woman holding her pussy lips open. Two women thought it was a derogatory male term, and one suggested "Open Otter" might be more feminine.