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title: 21 Extraordinary Women Who Changed Sex Forever
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# 21 Extraordinary Women Who Changed Sex Forever

Huffington Post • March 26, 2014

> In 1969, 12 women met at a conference in Boston and swapped stories about their past experiences with doctors, as well as their own bodily know-how. The get-together proved so fruitful that one year later, those women (who would soon become known as The Boston Women’s Health Collective), issued a 193-page booklet called “Women and Their Bodies,” (which would soon became known as “Our Bodies, Ourselves,” a bestseller and the bible for information on women’s health and sexuality for many generations).

  
**Read the full story**: [21 Extraordinary Women Who Changed Sex Forever](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/26/women-who-changed-sex-forever_n_4907234.html?ir=Women&utm_campaign=032614 "21 Extraordinary Women Who Changed Sex Forever") by Catherine Pearson[Read the full article ](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/26/women-who-changed-sex-forever_n_4907234.html?ir=Women&utm_campaign=032614)

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