"I have absolutely no control over my _public_ muscles."

[Darla Wells]

Hey Wilson,
I guess only she would know how "public" her muscles have been.
Darla

2010/12/6 Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com>

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> Spoken by a young white woman of 23, a college grad, who had
> self-diagnosed herself via Google as being afflicted with vaginismus.
> Apparently, she'd never had occasion to hear the word "pubic" spoken,
> being familiar with it only as a consequence of her research.
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> "That speaks volumes," to coin a phrase, about the depth and breadth
> of gender-education in the United States.
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