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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 1:57pm By Megan AndellouxThe Holiday season: a time to gather and schmooze, to swap stories and drink. When this writer wasn't partaking in the traditional eggnog-enraged family fights, I was able to hang with a few friends of mine who work in the field of sexuality and...
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Monday, December 21, 2009 - 1:20pm By Megan AndellouxP eople often ask me, with unsettlingly wolfish zeal, to share my "weirdest" stories from working as a Gynecological Teaching Associate. They want to know the most grotesque, pervy, horrorshow experiences I've had while plucky young medical...
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Friday, November 20, 2009 - 12:37pm By Megan AndellouxThere was a time in my life when I didn't want to have sex… at all. Being a sex educator, this presented some challenges. Was my work a farce? Was I a phony? If I didn't want to screw around, how was I supposed to stand in front of others and...
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Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 9:44am By John LeavittHow Sex Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel, and Act the Way We Do By Sharon Moalem Harper Collins 26.99, 288 pp. Back during the beginning of railroads, many stations had a book lending program. You'd rent a book from your starting station...
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Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 2:04pm By Chris HallA new report published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology says that while increasing numbers of women are undergoing cosmetic surgery on their genitals, there is a "shocking" lack of knowledge on just what the risks of...
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Friday, November 6, 2009 - 12:02pm By Megan AndellouxMany people hold a deep respect for my work as a gynecological teaching associate (GTA)—or at least they do once they find out what that means, exactly. GTAs are the women who use their bodies to guide medical students through pelvic exams....
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Monday, November 2, 2009 - 1:22pm By Chris HallABC television affiliate WJLA in Washington, DC ran a four-part series about breast cancer last week that went where no one—except perhaps Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake—has gone before. As part of the series, the station showed two...
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Friday, October 23, 2009 - 10:42am By Megan AndellouxThe doctor put her fingers in her ears…"La, la, la, la, la, I don't hear you!" Her colleague chuckled, cleared his throat and suggested that I move onto other more "palatable" conversation. I merely smirked, gave a small...
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 3:24pm By Chris HallUnder the current system of health care, getting raped is a good reason for insurance companies to deny you coverage. That seems to be the lesson of this piece by Danielle Ivory of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund. Ivory writes about the case...
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Monday, October 19, 2009 - 3:45pm By Charlie GlickmanAs some of you may know, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is a document produced by the American Psychiatric Association. It serves as the official list of how we define mental health and mental health disorders. In a...
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Friday, October 9, 2009 - 3:26pm By Chris HallHave the scary cupcakes failed to discourage you from going down to the clinic and getting that oh-so-fashionable abortion you've been thinking about? Maybe this will: as of November 1, if you're a woman getting an abortion in Oklahoma, you'll be...
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Friday, October 9, 2009 - 2:07pm By Megan Andelloux"This has nothing to do with sex." —City of Pawtucket town clerk's office After my column a few weeks ago, I left many of you hanging regarding the political fallout over the...
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009 - 11:19am By MidoriI have genital and oral herpes—and I swear it saved my life. It sounds weird, I know, but it's true. I contracted herpes as an undergrad at Berkeley in the mid 80s. My boyfriend had a cold sore on his lips after the first sunny day of skiing....
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 1:32pm By Chris HallA new study published in Cancer, the journal of the American Cancer Society, says that more women are having healthy breasts preemptively removed to prevent a recurrence of breast cancer. The study, which studied 6,275 women from New York state,...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 11:08am By Liz FarsaciCora Emens, the lovely lady featured in last week's column, spent years being referred to as "the masturbation girl." Well, I have to say, after being away from my partner for three weeks, she's got nothing on me. Having lived together in...
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