YMMV / The Vagina Monologues

• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Transposed from the general Theater page's NF entry:
    The Vagina Monologues. One of the monologues, called "Say It," was inspired by the stories of the "comfort women," who were abducted by the Japanese government during World War II to serve as sex slaves for the soldiers. The person delivering the monologue describes the things she experienced, including the suicides of some of the other girls, one of whom is described as having deliberately run headfirst into a wall.
  • Several of the monologues describe abuse in excruciating, first person detail ("Memory of Her Face" is in particular hard to listen to), and the fact that this really happened, and will continue to happen is pure Nightmare Fuel.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: The vignette "The Little Coochie Snorcher That Could" is best known for its highly controversial depiction of an underaged girl's sexual encounter with an adult woman, which has led many theatre groups to alter it to avoid controversy. Some productions change the narrator's age from 13 to 16, some cut the controversial line "If it was rape, it was a good rape", and others elect to cut the segment entirely.
• Squick: The monologues tend to describe things in pretty excruciating detail.

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