The male obsession with tight vaginas is famed and somewhat unfortunate. It’s closely bound up with the myth that having lots of sex loosens a vagina — i.e., that slutty women are “loose” — and considering the fact that anxiety makes the vaginal musculature clench tightly, men are liable to mistake an unhappy, tense partner for someone with a “tight pussy.” “‘Tight’ versus ‘loose’ is probably some misogynist bullshit myth,”