u/LossFallacy

I genuinely don't understand cishet people.

Impenetrable is about this woman with a buzzcut who has vaginismus and can't have penetrative sex. I picked it up thinking, "Oh, this sounds interesting. Let's see what this is actually about."

After finishing it I was very upset.

First of all... why is this Belgian woman acting like she grew up in some ultra-conservative household? Girl, if it hurts, SAY SOMETHING. Why are you just silently suffering?? I swear I've met East Asian women raised in much more conservative environments who would put up with less than this.
Why does she think she needs to blow her bf because she can not do penetration, not the other way around?? Why can't her bf focus on her genital and do oral?? Also it was a very reasonable question to raise that why is the partner not noticing anything????

If you are so compatible and so soul-mate, a man, or anyone, can tell that the person he's penetrating into, is IN PAIN!!!

And then there's the whole "we HAVE to make penetration happen" thing.

Why??

Is penetration literally the only form of sex straight people know? Do you not have hands? Mouths? Toys? Imagination?

The entire conflict revolves around "penetration hurts, but we absolutely MUST make penetration work." Then it's pelvic floor therapy, doctor's appointments, exercises, endless treatment...

wff?

Have you ever heard of hands??? Oral?? You know, people who have perfectly satisfying sex lives without making penetration the center of everything?

That's honestly what frustrated me the most. The book never really questions the assumption that penetration is the goal. It just assumes it is, and everything else revolves around making the protagonist capable of it.

And then by the end the story completely loses and starts wandering off into all these other themes.

https://preview.redd.it/fhz77cz96dgh1.png?width=351&format=png&auto=webp&s=9d00521437ee4e16dee417cbbc10d23283482030

Which one will Vera be back?

Alix Garin's Impenetrable is disturbing