Cultural bestseller by the famous sexologist, president of the Dutch Society of Sexology Jelto Drenth “Vagina. A History of Errors" is a grand attempt to understand humanity's attitude towards the most taboo topic that has been hidden under the veil of shame, secrecy and fear: the topic of female sexuality. The author has created a unique overview of the literary, anatomical, artistic, political, humorous and psychological aspects of attitudes towards women genitals. And he showed what a huge influence this “most important place of August”, or “odaiji-no-tonoro” (this is how the vagina is called in Japan), had on the development of world civilization. Drenth brilliantly combined scientific facts and fantasies, historical information and medical details, literary images and misconceptions, addressing them to representatives of both sexes who want to understand the subject. He managed to prove that the vast majority of men and women know practically nothing about that part of the female body that is so carefully hidden behind a whole host of poetic epithets, such as “garden of pleasures”, “gates of happiness”, “secret abode”, “peach” , the “pearl” with which humanity has awarded it over the long years of its existence.