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Does Normal Really Exist? How One Conversation About Labiaplasty Changed My Life
It’s pretty amazing how one moment in your life can define you. Mine was back in high school when a conversation in maths class taught me there was such a thing as an ‘innie’ and an ‘outie’. I hadn’t seen another vulva at that point in time, and it was that conversation that set me on…
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Don’t Make Fat Jokes Ever, Especially Not in Front of Your Kids
This pandemic has gifted each of us our own cornucopia of physical and mental garbage: anxiety, isolation, depression, inertia, and insomnia, to name a few. For some, it also led to the more frequent consumption of less healthy (read: comfort) foods. And that indulgence (which, frankly, we deserve) has led to the somewhat inevitable jokes…
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These Holidays, Stop Food Shaming
Whatever your relationship with food is like, it probably intensifies around the holidays. If you’re sticking to a special diet, you have to decide whether to keep it up or to say fuck it and take a day off to indulge. If your family’s eating habits annoy you, how fun! You’ll be watching them cook…
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Ladies, We Need To Talk About Your Vaginas
Over the past few years, there has been a marked increase in the number of Australian women undergoing cosmetic genital surgery in a quest for “normal” vaginas. But what exactly is normal? Despite what porn would have you believe, vaginal appearance is just as diverse as any other body part. GPs need to discourage women…