More than half of all women will get a urinary tract infection at some point in their life, and for many women, the issue will be a reoccurring one.
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The contraceptive game is on the verge of a change for the better.
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FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS. The casual, no-strings-attached-sex-with-a-trusted-pal plan is generally thought of as a man’s paradise and a woman’s worst nightmare. We pretend we’re fine with…
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APPARENTLY, the humid inferno that has been LA for the past week is due to take a chill pill in the next few days. Meaning,…
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COME OCTOBER, women will be able to visit their local pharmacists and fill out a prescription for Addyi, a new drug that claims to increase…
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I WATCHED “THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL” at a press screening about a month ago, and when I left the theater, I left feeling…
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JOURNALIST RACHEL HILLS’ first book, The Sex Myth: The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Reality, tackles what she names (and shames) as “the sex myth”…
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I’ve already argued that bringing the body in line with one’s self-conceived gender identity does not undermine the idea that gender norms are socially constructed as…
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In a culture as sex-obsessed as ours, discussions of virginity will inevitably raise some tempers and blood pressures. Most of us have been raised to…
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Elinor Burkett, a journalist, filmmaker, and former professor of women’s studies, published a piece in the New York Times last month expressing frustration with the…
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I HAVE A LOT of feelings about Season 3 of Orange Is the New Black: some bad, most good. The focus on formerly minor characters…
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ALTHOUGH MONOGAMY technically only means having one sexual partner throughout one’s life or at any given time (for the serialists out there), it’s gone from…
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