Not to add to your worry, but you express a common misconception. Pap smears do absolutely nothing to detect ovarian cancer. Their only benefit is to detect cervical cancer (or conditions that can lead to cervical cancer). Pap smears NEVER show evidence for or against ovarian cancer. For women at higher risk of…

This is my biggest fear. I used talc in my underwear everyday from age 12 to 19, not knowing the hazards. All of my paps have been good so far, but the wait for results is always scary.

Good to know! Will do.

I work with Cleveland Clinic and they really appreciate feedback. If you want to share this support with their team (your local or national) they would loveeee it and it would lead to do more of the same in the future.

I am loving The Cleveland Clinic’s decision to pull their gala from Mar-A-Lago. If more folks, institutions, and companies do the same, it could really hurt the Grifter-in-Chief. We may have to put up with his racism and voter suppression and dangerousness, but G-d it, there is not reason that any American outside…

I’ve been under the impression for some time now that to become a cop you apparently must be tested for and possess a superhuman sense of smell, because some of the shit these officers try to claim is literally unbelievable. So many officers claim they can smell alcohol on a driver’s breath, when they never get any…

I’ll bet it was a “Let’s show everyone around here we mean business.”

Amazing that they could smell the weed that was most definitely crammed up into her vagina. What. The. Fuck.

Satire of what? I just dashed off that comment in the heat of the moment. Sorry if it was unclear. I’m saying my friend was treated more humanely by the police in a country often accused of human rights violations than this young woman was in the US. The police thought my friend was a drug smuggler (she’s not,…

She’s Black. They “smell weed” on us all the time, regardless of if we smoke or not.

Do you know what’s really frustrating? All they have to do is say they smell marijuana.

Just to follow up....a friend of mine was once forcibly searched (unjustly) for drugs in a devolopping country with a reputation for human right violations. Did the police strip search her in the street? No, they took her to the hospital where trained medical professionals searched her. It was scary and demeaning,…

Do people regularly ride around town with marijuana in their vaginas? Why would they do that? I mean, if the police had serious cause to believe a young woman shoved drugs up her vagina, take her to the hospital! That would be cause for concern. If I thought someone was using marijuana as a tampon I’d be very…