Rees also references a number of present day manifestations of this Freudian concern, not minimum US director Mitchell Lichtenstein’s film Teeth. As the author of The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History, Rees literally wrote the ebook on the depiction of vaginas - and its chapter on delivery demonstrates that, even in present day occasions, community attitudes to looking at women’s personal parts in the course of childbirth are fraught.