Society for Menstrual Cycle Research » magazines http://menstruationresearch.org Blog of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research Tue, 22 May 2012 12:45:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Redbook Gets It Right http://menstruationresearch.org/2012/05/08/redbook-gets-it-right/ http://menstruationresearch.org/2012/05/08/redbook-gets-it-right/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 13:00:00 +0000 David Linton http://menstruationresearch.org/?p=6911 Our recent Weekend Links post referred to a cheesy piece in Cosmopolitan magazine about stupid and offensive remarks that have been said to women by their ob/gyn.  At about the same time, Redbook‘s May 2012, issue had an article by another ob/gyn, Dr. Hilda Hutcherson, titled, “Have a healthy, happy vagina,” which used a q & a format to address “the five issues women stress about most” concerning their “lady parts.”

Image from Redbook, May 2012, p. 183

  1. Will childbearing “ruin” my vagina?
  2. Is the smell okay?
  3. Do I look weird down there compared to other women?
  4. Why don’t I have vaginal orgasms?  Can I change that?
  5. Why does my vagina sometimes hurt when I have sex?

The responses to the questions were basically thoughtful and supportive, though a bit coy sometimes, with the talk about “lady parts.” In other words, they gave the kinds of information that’s found all the time in the posts on re:Cycling.

It also included four dumb/insensitive things doctors have said while their patient was “in the stirrups.”  The heading was, “Your OB/GYN said WHAT!?”

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