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The authors of "Hot Flash" discuss how menopause capitalism tries to profit from the growth of menopause awareness, selling dubious products that do not take our health needs seriously.

There's no scientific evidence that the vaginal corona (hymen) is proof of virginity but cultures around the world keep insisting that it is.

For centuries, Native Hawaiian healers treated abortion as a core part of normal health care. In 1970, Hawai'i was the first U.S. state to legalize abortion.

Fariha Róisín discusses how she worked through feelings of shame around her abortion experience.

An intersex writer offers these starting points for finding healing, pleasure, and desire despite the stigma and pain that often accompany being an intersex person.

Purity culture spreads a lot of falsehoods about virginity. What is true and what isn't?

Dispelling the myths, shame, and misunderstandings, here are the essentials of solo sex -- how (and why) to masturbate pleasurably and safely.

Even our language betrays the sexist bias of reproductive health studies. Elizabeth Hlavinka discusses how we're still being harmed by a long history of ignoring, misperceiving, and discounting women's bodies.

Menstruation has a very long history of stigma, which continues into the present.

This Scarleteen article provides an overview of the vaginal corona (also known as the hymen) and answers questions about its relationship to virginity.

Suicide deaths among Black women and girls are rising. Journalist Kali Holloway explores the relationship between suicide and the intersection of anti-Black racism and misogyny, known as misogynoir.

Disability rights activist Alice Wong speaks with health activist Jessica Gimeno and mental health advocate Emily Wu Truong about their mental health journeys as Asian American women, including cultural barriers for getting support.