I will definitely check these images out when I'm not at work. You know what I find utterly confusing? The inside is considered just as...um...impolite as the outside. It's like...it's perfectly alright to look at muscular structure, and skeletal structure, and livers and hearts and lungs...but not this?
When I was trying to get pregnant, there was a book that I found that explained my cycle far far better than any of those ridiculous sex ed classes in high school ever did. Srsly, it was really more important to show me how to roll a condom down a banana than it was to tell me how my cycle worked? Which explanation was more likely to keep me from getting pregnant????
I am frequently amazed at the things women don't know about their bodies. And don't want to know in many cases. I've always been fairly well informed, but then I was fascinated by childbirth as a kid and that translated into spending hours reading up on human reproduction. Certainly no one went out of their way to make sure I knew about these things.
(It helps too that I tend toward the crunchy. My well woman exams are with a midwife who suggested that I take up tracking my cervical mucus just as a way to get more familiar with my body even though I've no interest in getting pregnant any time soon. I've gathered that this isn't a common suggestion that OB/GYNs give their patients. *g*)
Fertility treatment teaches you a lot. 10 years down the line I am still amazed that it is expected we should know all this about our own bodies....without those in the 'apparent' know telling us. I had to find all this out myself.
Yeah. Relatedly, I have some vulvar issues, and just read a book written by my doctor about the vulva and vagina, every third page of which has something like "well, there aren't many studies on this..." on it. It was fascinating, but the lack of solid knowledge was kind of depressing.
OTOH, I suppose it's not like I know that much about the operation of the digestive system either, you know? But I feel like doctors should.
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BTW, the link to the BBC has an extra quote somewhere.
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When I was trying to get pregnant, there was a book that I found that explained my cycle far far better than any of those ridiculous sex ed classes in high school ever did. Srsly, it was really more important to show me how to roll a condom down a banana than it was to tell me how my cycle worked? Which explanation was more likely to keep me from getting pregnant????
Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler.
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(It helps too that I tend toward the crunchy. My well woman exams are with a midwife who suggested that I take up tracking my cervical mucus just as a way to get more familiar with my body even though I've no interest in getting pregnant any time soon. I've gathered that this isn't a common suggestion that OB/GYNs give their patients. *g*)
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Thank you for the links.
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OTOH, I suppose it's not like I know that much about the operation of the digestive system either, you know? But I feel like doctors should.
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