Meanings
- uncountableThe preeminence of penovaginal copulation over other forms of sexual expression.
It is clear from this statement how vaginalism had become an ideology of female subordination.
2012, Josephine Donovan, Feminist Theory, Fourth Edition: The Intellectual Traditions, page 1022 more examples
In such women, the viriloid phallic function predominates at the expense of a more, or less, undeveloped or inhibited vaginalism.
1974, Irving Singer, The goals of human sexuality, page 92Thus, Friedan faulted Freud for making a specific sexual experience she termed “vaginalism” the be-all and end-all of women's existence.
2011, Rosemarie Tong, Feminist Thought, page 233
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