Recently I co-taught a university writing seminar in which a talented student from a wealthy Chinese Singaporean family presented a short story of harrowing childhood sexual abuse. A twelve-year-old girl’s vulva — her hairless skin folds, or labia, plus the glans of the clitoris — was the main subject of the story. A girl becoming aware of how her labia brushed lightly against her thighs. A girl who viewed her young body in front of a mirror naked before offering herself up to her father, giving him endless blow jobs that seemed endlessly described. Violent sex within the violent context of incest. The delicate skin of a pale, young, flawless neck marred by an official caregiver’s deliberately inflicted bruises.