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The Wonder Down Under: The Insider's Guide to the Anatomy, Biology, and Reality of the Vagina by Nina Brochmann, Ellen Støkken Dahl
1 review
markitherainbowreader's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
3.75
I think it's important to know that this is a medical manual. It's written by two female medics and it shows - everything is about statistics and research, and that's okay, it contains relevant and useful info.
However one section that left a really bad aftertaste - side effects of hormonal contraception. This book presents itself as a feminist piece served to empower people with vaginas with knowledge and encourage them to not be ashamed of their experiences. And yet it tells the readers that side effects of contraception are basically dismissable, be glad you're not pregnant, and absolutely doubts and disvalidates any connection between hormonal contraception and mood swings/depression ending the speculation how whomever voiced their experience probably just thinks the mood changes are caused by the pills when it's something unrelated and they don't know. Silly women. Topped it all off, following a bunch of statistics, with the sentence "feelings are not facts" which to my liking echoes way too closely Ben Shapiro's carchphrase "Facts don't care about your feelings."
Also mentions trans people, marks them as valid but then sticks to the labels like "female organs" and "female hormones" which was a bit disappointing. Also occasional medical fatphobia. But a good purely medical scientific basis for vaginas & co.
However one section that left a really bad aftertaste - side effects of hormonal contraception. This book presents itself as a feminist piece served to empower people with vaginas with knowledge and encourage them to not be ashamed of their experiences. And yet it tells the readers that side effects of contraception are basically dismissable, be glad you're not pregnant, and absolutely doubts and disvalidates any connection between hormonal contraception and mood swings/depression ending the speculation how whomever voiced their experience probably just thinks the mood changes are caused by the pills when it's something unrelated and they don't know. Silly women. Topped it all off, following a bunch of statistics, with the sentence "feelings are not facts" which to my liking echoes way too closely Ben Shapiro's carchphrase "Facts don't care about your feelings."
Also mentions trans people, marks them as valid but then sticks to the labels like "female organs" and "female hormones" which was a bit disappointing. Also occasional medical fatphobia. But a good purely medical scientific basis for vaginas & co.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Abortion
Minor: Fatphobia and Sexual assault
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