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title: "Todd Akin's Very Own Copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves Is Being Rush-Delivered to Him Right Now"
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# Todd Akin's Very Own Copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves Is Being Rush-Delivered to Him Right Now

Jezebel • August 23, 2012

> What's the one book you think Rep. Todd Akin, freelance improvisational biologist, would most benefit from reading, other than Go the F\*ck to Sleep? If you said Our Bodies, Ourselves, plus a whole supplementary reading list of sex ed textbooks, you have exactly the same idea as the official Our Bodies, Ourselves reading brigade, who have embarked on a cross-country (Chicago to Missouri) odyssey to deliver copies of the famously illustrated book about sex parts to Rep. Akin's office.

  
**Read the full story:** [Todd Akin's Very Own Copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves Is Being Rush-Delivered to Him Right Now](http://jezebel.com/5937459/todd-akins-very-own-copy-of-our-bodies-ourselves-is-being-rush-delivered-to-him-right-now) by Doug Barry

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