The Clitoris, Pain and Pap Smears: How Our Bodies, Ourselves Redefined Women’s Health

This article from The Guardian delves into the history and legacy of Our Bodies Ourselves by following the journeys of OBOS co-founder Wendy Sanford and OBOS board member Diana Namumbejja Abwoye. 

At one point, Sanford remembers, the speaker held up a lifesize picture of a woman, with legs apart, to show the location of the clitoris, and to explain how, contrary to Freudian thinking, it is the major organ of female sexual pleasure. “Who knew this before?” she asked the group, who sat largely blank-faced. “That’s my point,” she told them. “We should know these things. These are our bodies.”