Pop Culture Is Literally Teeming with Vaginas  Has anyone
noticed that "vagina," the trisyllabic word for a vagina, has
been popping up everywhere recently? You can hardly turn on the
TV or go to the movies without running into like a hundred
"vaginas," a fact that is sometimes praised as evidence of
gender equality, and other times derided as yet another crass,
uncreative way of objectifying women. One thing is for sure,
though — the vagina craze is sweeping comedy scripts everywhere
and will continue to supplant its more squeamish euphemisms for
female genitalia until it achieves some more definite parity
with "penis," becoming so commonplace that screen and television
writers will start using phrases like "genitalia bonanza" when
they want to elicit a cheap laugh at the expense of reproductive
organs.  The Los Angeles Times' Rebecca Keegan writes about the
rise of "vagina" in pop culture ever since the 1996 premiere of
Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, a play predicated on the
idea that talking about, lo