Fox Women: The Type English Already Had a Word For

"Foxy" was in English long before anyone wrote this book. It is one of the few compliments that arrives with a whole animal attached: quick, pretty, slightly unreadable. The framework set out by Amara Charles borrows the same animal for one of nine female genital anatomy types, and the interesting part is not the flattery. It is that she attaches it to a specific set of physical features.

Between Sheep and Deer

Charles arranges her nine types on a wheel. Four sit at the cardinal points: Sheep in the South, Buffalo in the West, Wolf in the North, Deer in the East, each with its own article in this series. Between every neighbouring pair sits a blended type. Fox is the southeast one, between Sheep and Deer.

Adjacency is a rule rather than a convenience. A blend is only possible between neighbours, which means there is no type combining Sheep with Wolf and none combining Buffalo with Deer, because those pairs sit opposite one another. Four cardinals, four blends between the adjacent pairs, one more at the centre. That is why the system has nine types and not fifteen.

It also explains why this piece is shorter than the ones on Sheep and Deer. In the book the four blended types get a compact entry covering direction, physical features and temperament, while the cardinal types get long blocks of measurements. That is the structure Charles wrote, and filling the gap would mean inventing material.

What the anatomy actually describes

Strip the animal off and the description is a list of ordinary variations, every one of which turns up in healthy bodies.

The hood. Clitoral hoods differ a great deal in how much they cover and how far forward they run. The Fox description sits between its two neighbours: hooded, but on a shorter shaft than the long tunnel-like hood the Sheep type is defined by.

Outer lips. Petite, towards the small end of the range, which is the Deer side of the blend.

Distance from clitoris to opening. Short, with the clitoris sitting close to the vaginal entrance. This is the measurement the whole framework turns on, and it really does vary between people, from a few millimetres to several centimetres.

Inside. Where the Deer description puts the sensitive front-wall area right at the entrance, the Fox description places it further back. Internal depth may be on the fairly deep, Sheep-like side.

Wetness and timing. Both variable. Some women fitting this description get drier as arousal builds; others are profusely wet. Time to orgasm ranges from a couple of minutes to considerably longer.

The blend formula Charles repeats for all four noncardinal types applies here. A woman may have the internal features of one neighbour and the external features of the other, or the reverse. A fairly deep interior with small outer lips is the textbook Fox arrangement, and so is its opposite.

None of that is a defect and none of it is rare. Hood size, labia size, clitoral distance and lubrication all vary hugely between perfectly ordinary bodies. If you arrived here worried rather than curious, start with Are My Labia Normal? The Honest Answer instead.

The character material, which is Charles's and not ours

Everything from here is a framework rather than a finding.

Charles places the Fox Woman in the southeast, which in her wheel is the place of self-love, self-concepts, attitude and approach, and her character description follows straight from that. She describes Fox Women as seducers who work by holding back: patient, indirect, giving small signals rather than obvious ones, turning on the charm at a chosen moment. She writes that mystery is the point, and that too much direct exposure spoils it.

Then she complicates her own stereotype. In her system the fox is keeper of the family, because foxes pair for life and return to the same den, so despite the reputation she describes Fox Women as sweet-natured, shy, loyal and family-minded. Their sounds at orgasm she calls the Cries of Beauty.

The weakness she assigns is distraction, with the image of a fox so taken with its own tail that it loses the hunt. She describes Fox Women as easily pulled away by a word, a gesture or their own thoughts, and says the work is staying present. The remedy she names is the one her direction implies: self-love. In her account a Fox Woman who genuinely likes her own body becomes generous and warm without effort, and one who does not stays stuck.

Nobody here is going to tell you what you are

Charles's own instruction is that a woman reads the descriptions and decides which she thinks she is. She says a genital type cannot easily be seen and has to be worked out from internal and external features together, alone with a mirror or with a partner. She also says the physical features and the personality can come apart entirely, so a woman may have one direction's anatomy and none of its described qualities.

Keep that last point. Anatomy is anatomy. The rest is a system, and it is one person's.

Source

Amara Charles, "The Sexual Practices of Quodoushka: Teachings from the Nagual Tradition" (Destiny Books), chapter 8, "Female Genital Anatomy Types". Charles has taught this material in her own workshops since the 1990s.