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The Vagina-Appreciation School Behind Ariana Grande's Mysterious Instagram

Mama Gena and Ariana Grande. Photo: BFA; Getty Images

Ariana Grande — the collectible miniature version of a pop star and the hardest-working 23-year-old ponytail on globe — recently posted a book extract to her Instagram. "I rage with as much passion every bit I grieve," information technology read. "I would sell my soul for a nighttime of ecstasy."

If you lot're thinking, "What to heck are you talking nearly, Ariana Grande?", we're here to help.

So who is Regena Thomashauer, the woman whose name was hashtag-captioned on Grande'due south post? Thomashauer is best known as Mama Gena, founder of Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts.

Wait, and "Schoolhouse of Womanly Arts"? That doesn't audio like an accredited establishment to me.
The 18-yr-one-time New York–based schoolhouse claims they teach women to "use the power of pleasance to have their way with the world" — more specifically, "about using the powers of desire, non attempt, to attain your goals."

Then what exactly does this entail?
It's pretty vague, merely for starters, women who attend the school refer to each other as "sister goddesses." Really, the whole vibe is very "Yogi tea pocketbook gets its first vibrator."

Here's how the classes looked in 2001, via a New York Magazine contour of Mama Gena:

And then, on a typical weekday evening 20 New York women pack up their pussies in La Perla thongs and make their pilgrimage to Mama Gena'south brownstone in the West Eighties to learn to say the word ("They shout it!" Mama Gena swears. "We have to restrain them sometimes!") and to take classes with titles like "Training Your Man," "Power Play: The Art and Scientific discipline of Hexing," and, of grade, "Trust Your Pussy."

Uh.
Okay, here's some more detail:

The course meets weekly for three hours at a fourth dimension. In addition to the brag, each class has a theme. Pussify your wardrobe, for case (that is, throw out anything that makes y'all feel less than foxy), or apparel up as your favorite woman from history or fiction (several Jackie O's, a Princess Di here, an Auntie Mame in that location). In that location is homework, too, such as watching Mae West movies, or practicing Pussy Appreciation. "Look at your crotch every day," reads a handout. "Write in a periodical three things you similar virtually information technology. Affect your crotch in different places and see what feels good, write in your journal and bring it to class."

The class structure appears to have inverse since the contour was written — the program has grown quite a bit — but the general ethos is still very much the same.

I'm going to regret asking this, but how much does this stuff cost?
They're currently ad a "Mastery experience" that runs for $4,950 if yous pay up front and $five,450 if you pay on a monthly basis.

$5,000! Between the coin and the content of what you lot're describing, this program sounds similar it would be rife with drama.
Y'all're not totally wrong. Back in 2003, Mama Gena'southward right-paw-adult female — Auntie Beth Schoenfeldt — left to start her ain similar business, For Honey Only Incubator, or FLOinc. A New York Magazine item about this quoted one woman who switched from Mama Gena to Beth saying, "Mama Gena'southward definitely a bowwow!" FLOinc does not announced to be anymore, but Mama Gena'due south however chugging abroad.

Doing what else?
And now we come up full circle to Ariana Grande, whose Instagram post was an extract of Pussy: A Reclamation, the book Mama Gena released in September 2016. "This book is written to reacquaint a adult female with her own power source," the clarification reads. "Which is the office of herself she has been taught to ignore, push button downwards, and despise." It was a New York Times best seller.

Dearest and light, sis goddesses.

The Vagina Schoolhouse Backside Ariana Grande's Instagram