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Author
Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In This is How You Vagina, Dr. Nicole Williams presents readers with a much-needed resource on the history, science, and attitudes about the most fascinating and misunderstood part of the female anatomy: the vagina. She includes valuable information about sexual function, child birth, and physiology and presents answers to her patients' most common questions. She also dispels the most common myths concerning female genitalia. This book is an easy-to-understand...
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The Wonder Down Under explains everything you ever wanted to know about the vagina but didn't dare ask. Learn the truth about the clitoris' inner life, the menstrual hormone dance and whether the vaginal orgasm really exists. The book helps you understand how different types of contraception work in the body, what a "normal" vulva looks like and how wearing socks can change your sex life. Medical students and sex educators Nina Brochmann and Ellen...
Author
Publisher
Adams Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Get the lowdown on how to take care of your nether regions with this fun and frank guide focused on helping you maintain your private parts. Covering everything from everyday cleanliness to internal and external safe health advice as well as tips regarding the groom-or-not-to-groom debate and sex-friendly good habits to practice, Self-Care Down There will help you keep your private parts in tip-top shape while expressing the true you! Founder and...
Author
Publisher
Andy Cohen Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In The Queen V, the beloved OB-GYN, celebrity doctor, and star of Bravo's Married to Medicine reveals the twelve principles behind a happy and healthy vagina...and other lady parts. After twenty years of private obstetrics and gynecological practice, there's nothing Dr. Jackie Walters hasn't seen. And now, in her new book, the widely-adored OB-GYN invites you to put your feet in the stirrups and investigate. Whether she's covering libido, contraceptives,...
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"OB/GYN, writer for The New York Times, USA Today, and Self, and host of the show Jensplaining, Dr. Jen Gunter now delivers the definitive book on vaginal health, answering the questions you've always had but were afraid to ask--or couldn't find the right answers to. She has been called Twitter's resident gynecologist, the Internet's OB/GYN, and one of the fiercest advocates for women's health...and she's here to give you the straight talk on the...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McNeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Let's Talk About Down There is like the health class you wish you had -- think evidence-based, myth-busting sex ed where shame gets tossed out the window -- in a format that's as approachable as a fifteen-second video. Addressing topics such as hormones, menstrual cups, and birth control, all with the help of infographics and illustrations, this succinct, vibrant handbook answers the questions that you may have been too embarrassed to ask, so you'll...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"V de vagina rompe los moldes en cuesti̤n de salud femenina. Aqu̕ encontrar̀s todo lo que siembre has querido saber y nunca te has atrevido a preguntar sobre tu cuerpo.Enťrate de los ︢ltimos descubrimientos cient̕ficos, rompe tab︢es, con̤cete mejor y ︢nete al club de las mujeres que hablan sin verg|enza ni tapujos de su cuerpo y sus derechos."-- cover page 4.
The Complete A to Z for Your V provides women and girls with what they need...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A scientific journey to the center of the new female body. The Latin term for the female genitalia, pudendum, means "parts for which you should be ashamed." Until 1651, ovaries were called female testicles. The fallopian tubes are named for a man. Named, claimed, and shamed: Welcome to the story of the female body, as penned by men. Today, a new generation of (mostly) women scientists is finally redrawing the map. With modern tools and fresh perspectives,...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"When an unexpected medical crisis sends [the author] on a deeply personal journey to tease out the intersections between sexuality and creativity, she discovers, much to her own astonishment, an increasing body of scientific evidence that suggests that the vagina is not merely flesh, but an intrinsic component of the female brain--and thus has a fundamental connection to female consciousness itself."--Dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From earliest childhood, girls are misled about their bodies, encouraged to describe their genitalia with cute and silly names rather than anatomically correct terms. Girls grow up feeling ashamed about their periods; they grow up without a full and honest sex education. Enright provides girls and women with information they need about their own bodies: about the vagina, the hymen, the clitoris, the orgasm; about conditions like endometriosis and...
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