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No, Virginia, There Really Isn’t a Hymen

I know you’re all waiting with bated breath for Madame Trota’s  cosmetic advice, but breaking news wins out over 800 year old skin treatments, especially if they require you to put leeches on your face. Sweden, apparently, has a group that monitors sex education, known (in English) as the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education. They [...]

Hippocrates and the Hodos

Hippocrates was, in fact, not one guy. There was a physician named Hippocrates, about the time of Plato, practicing in Athens in the Golden Age of Greece, during the late 5th and early 4th century BCE. But the writings that we attribute to this one person are undoubtedly a collection of works from the Golden [...]