Why do vag**** get tight?

An investigation in a tense matter.

Oh, the tight vagina.

Patriarchy would like us to believe that this is, obvs, the ideal. I feel like I grew up with the male whisperings of “tight pussy” all around me — didn’t you? When I became a pelvic floor therapist, I was horrified to learn that an additional and unnecessary stitch in the perineum after childbirth is literally called a “husband st…