'Our Bodies, Ourselves' Will No Longer Be Updated, After Four Decades In Print.

I was 13 when my mother decided to spare me the awkward sex talk she was ill-equipped to give and instead hand me a copy of the book I would return to time and time again with my questions about safe sex, body image, birth control, menstruation, abortion, and so much more. Like with so many other young girls and women, Our Bodies, Ourselves offered judgement-free answers to all of my hardest, most personal questions about my body, sex, and being a woman. 

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