Vagina dentata in popular culture

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Vagina dentata, that is toothed vagina has been mentioned in popular culture.

• John Boyd's beautiful humanoid alien queen from his book The Girl with the Jade Green Eyes is equipped with one like a snapper turtle's jaws.
• One adaptation of this myth within a Western context comes from the motion picture Liquid Sky, in which one of the protagonists is said to have been given the power to kill her sexual partners by extraterrestrials.
• On an episode of Saturday Night Live's popular sketch Wayne's World, Wayne (Mike Myers), returns a sarcastic remark made by a female guest with a comment about her "major vagina dentata!"
• An example can be found in the book Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. In Snow Crash, the teenage girl "Y.T." mentions several times (usually when she sees a man sexually aroused by her) that her "dentata" will protect her from rape. It's clear that if she is to engage in consensual intercourse, she needs to take it out. Late in the book, when she forgets to take it out, it is revealed that the dentata is a tiny device that incapacitates anyone who succeeds in penetration:

"...a very small hypodermic needle slipped imperceptibly into the engorged frontal vein of his penis, automatically shooting a cocktail of powerful narcotics and depressants into his bloodstream."

• Mentioned in the book "Hyperion" by Dan Simmons, when a protagonist has sexual intercourse with his lover, who slowly morphs into the bladed demon known as "The Shrike".
• An urban legend that circulated during the Vietnam War concerned prostitutes who, working with the NLF, were supposed to have implanted glass knives or razor blades into their vaginas, which they used to injure GIs (however, see Anti-rape_female_condom).
• In Yoshiaki Kawajiri's Yoju Toshi (known in English as Wicked City), the hero narrowly avoids castration when the Spider Woman demon attempts to take a bite during a bout of sex.
• In Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods a young African girl prevents a rape by claiming to be a witch with a toothed vagina. At another point a prostitute is revealed to be a god when she envelops a man's entire body in her vagina.
• A more bizarre version of the vagina dentata appears in artist H.R. Giger's designs for the titular creature from the film Alien.
• There is also a depiction of it in the books by Julian May set in the Pliocene epoch (The Saga of Pliocene Exile) in which the Firvulag females were so equipped.
• A character encounters a vagina dentata up close and personal in K. W. Jeter's novel Dr. Adder.
• The web comic strip Queen of Wands included a musical tribute (sung to the tune of Hakuna Matata) to the phenomenon.^[1]
• In the South American Indian Toba-Pilaga myth of "the origin of women", a group of women with toothed vaginas appear from the sky and steal the men's meat from their roofs, though eventually the men "get the better of the toothed vaginas", as do the men in a similar Wichí myth.^[2]
• Vagina dentata is a recurring theme throughout the novel "Christopher Unborn" by Carlos Fuentes, including the state of Mexico surgically implanting jewel-encrusted teeth into the vagina of a young girl chosen to be the country's new iconic figurehead. Later in the novel a suitor successfully couples with her by wearing a wooden condom.
• In the popular list of "50 REASONS WHY RETURN OF THE JEDI SUCKS" on the internet, the 50th and final reason is "The Sarlaac Pit as Freud's Vagina Dentate".^[3]
• In the South Park episode "Red Hot Catholic Love", when Father Maxi asks why the Catholics must molest children, it is revealed that there exists a sect of Catholicism composed of aliens, and that the females of the alien species have a vagina "three feet wide and lined with thousands of razor-sharp teeth" making sexual intercourse with them extremely unpleasant.
• In Russell Hoban's novel Riddley Walker, the mythical personification of death is characterized as the female "Auntie" with "teef between her legs".
• In David Lynch's film Blue Velvet, the camera pans to and fixes on an object resembling a vagina dentata. The object hangs near a bed on an otherwise empty bedroom wall.
• In Blade Trinity Hannibal King (portrayed by Ryan Reynolds) jokingly states that the film villain Danica has her vampiric fangs in her vagina.
• In the Genome novel by Sergey Lukyanenko, it is implied that the female protagonist Kym has a vagina dentata body modification and uses it in the conclusion of the book to incapacitate the antagonist.
• In Clerks II, the character of Elias tells Randal Graves that his girlfriend has a little troll in her vagina named "Pillow Pants", and another in her mouth named "Lister Fiend". Elias believes that these trolls will bite off anything that he puts into her vagina or mouth prior to her 21st birthday, a very likely reference to the myth of vagina dentata. The normally jaded and unshockable Randal is visibly dismayed by Elias' statement.
• In A Clash of Kings, book 2 of the Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin, an antagonist, Theon Greyjoy, dreams of having sex with a woman that he dominates in real life, only to find that in his dream she has 'teeth both above and below'. This is appropriate, as Theon spends much of the book in fear of his virtu and manhood, and is deeply shamed when his younger sister, Asha, is held more manly than he.
• Canadian author Diane Baker-Mason's novel, Last Summer at Barebone's, involves an obese female stand-up comedian with the stage name 'vagina dentata', Anglicized in the book as 'toothed cunt'.
• One of the The Perry Bible Fellowship[1] cartoons is about a female looking alien who has a fanged mouth instead of a vagina.
• The 2007 Sundance film Teeth[2] by Mitchell Lichtenstein is galvanized by the vagina dentata mythology.
• The cover art of Cannibal Corpse's EP Worm Infested depicts a drawing of a sickly looking female covered in green worms, sitting infront of a gigantic Vagina Dentata.
• In the series of "Burgess n Melces" by Melibe Mukade, many "dimroids" appears, the girls exchanged the position of mouse and vagina. [3]
• In the Clone Manga webcomic 'Tomoyo42's Room' it is implied that Tomoyo may have this as Sakura is bitten while sniffing there. It was able to bite even though she was still wearing underclothing. It could in theory be on her right inner thigh too. [4]

[edit] References

1. ^ Aeire (January 21 2004). Queen of Wands. Retrieved on 2006-03-16.
2. ^ Lévi-Strauss, Claude; Translated by Doreen Weightman and John Weightman (1975). The Raw and the Cooked: Introduction to a Science of Mythology: I (Le Cru et le Cuit). New York: Harper Colophon, 113-114. 
3. ^ Vebber, Dan (May 15 2001). 50 REASONS WHY RETURN OF THE JEDI SUCKS. Retrieved on 2006-03-16.