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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# We Asked 5 Sexual Health Experts What Made 'Our Bodies, Ourselves' Such a Revolutionary Resource

By Sarah Jacoby • Self • April 11, 2018

> At the time it was originally published, marital guides—which contained information about how to keep your husband happy—were common. But "Our Bodies, Ourselves" "took a very different approach," Dr. Streicher says. There were other books out there that explained safe sex or what happens in terms of the reproductive cycle, but this one also covered "the element beyond that, \[which\] is pleasurable sex, pleasurable intimacy," she says. "This was about what you need to know as a functional mature woman in terms of your own body, your own sexuality, and your own reproductive functions."

  
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