Gabrielle Jackson

An incredibly important and powerful look at how our culture treats the pain and suffering of women in medical and social contexts. A polemic on the state of women's health and healthcare.

How Social Taboos and Medical Ignorance Keep Women Sick and Suffering

Pain and Prejudice

Karolina

Medical science has played a historic role in perpetuating ideas that menstruation is unsafe, unclean and unmentionable.

That's right: PubMed has almost five times as many clinical trials on male sexual pleasure as it has on female sexual pain. And why? Because we live in a culture that sees female pain as normal and male pleasure as a right.

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