I love my vagina. I relish the idea of being able to work and raise a family. For the first time in my life, I felt ashamed to be a woman. All thanks to Amber Pawlik and Brian Blase.

Valentine's Day is not a holiday meant to celebrate romantic love. It's been made into a corporate holiday by Hallmark in an attempt to sell greeting cards and candy. Some want to put this wasted holiday to social use. The purpose of the vagina in the Vagina Monologues is not to be vulgar, but to celebrate those things that make women uniquely women. The vagina is the catalyst. A woman's relationship to her vagina is a woman's relationship with her innermost self.

The monologues are not about the statistics; they are irrelevant. The monologues are meant to personalize and humanize the experience of having a vagina. Did you feel uncomfortable during "My Vagina Was A Village"? If so, imagine how much more terrifying it was for the woman who lived it.

Lastly, I fail to see what masturbation has to do with being in a healthy relationship. For all intents and purposes, I am in what is generally defined to be a healthy relationship. Should I feel guilty for going on a hike without my partner because he isn't in the mood? Why are sex and masturbation any different?

Statistics don't mean anything. You can extrapolate from them any conclusion you want but it won't necessarily be correct. The same things you contribute to lack of maternal influence could also be attributed to proliferation of sex and drugs in the media or peer pressure in school.

Women have fought for and won the right to choose the corporate or mothering world. Please don't set us back twenty years with conclusions that you are unwilling or unable to back up.