Oy. Just oy.

Fair reason. What I said in my above response applies here too, but I mean, yeah, you have every right to be pissed. As does everyone else. I sort of misinterpreted some of the original "nastiness," since this piece was basically just an opinion piece where she doesn't decry medical treatment, but only proposes this…

Right. I understand that better now. However, to the author, this *was* intended to be a piece about a "dumb cream that doesn't do anything" specifically because she can't take pain relievers, not a proposal that medically-refuted products are a better alternative than medical treatment for serious diseases. This was…

I've asked my mom, but she wasn't really sure. She's a doctor, but not a gynecologist. My next annual pelvic exam with my gyno is in about a month, so I think I'll ask her what she thinks then. She doesn't have an online question thing, unfortunately. Did you have any kind of pain with your cyst?

Ugh. Yeah I've heard that story wayyy too many times. Plus, don't the doctors realize that they're only causing more worry by basically discouraging probably-fertile women from using birth control when they're not ready for children?

I'm the youngest of three, and my older siblings (about 7 and 5 years older), are less than two years apart. It took my mom about 7 or 8 months (which is about average, but she's neurotic) of trying to get pregnant with my brother, the oldest, and I'm pretty sure (due to some stuff she's said) that the reason why my…

Okay, I have a sort-of-relevant question that I'm wondering if any Jezzies can answer from personal experience or whatnot. I'm 18, and I assume I'm fertile. I really want to be able to get pregnant someday, but I also want to adopt and I know I could be happy if I couldn't have biological children, so I'm not deeply…

You could say that you had minor endometriosis that you didn't know about until too late that was left untreated and now you can't conceive. Or PCOS. Although honestly, if you say that, they might just pressure you to adopt/try fertility treatments.

STDs like gonorrhea can leave scarring of the fallopian tubes, leading to increased risk of infertility/ectopic pregnancies, but if it's treated early, then that's unlikely. Since your friends were young, I assume it was treated early. Either the doctors were misinformed by someone else or were doing it on purpose,…

Withdrawal can actually be pretty effective if performed correctly (the real problem is that most people *don't* perform it correctly), so it's definitely still possible that you're fertile. And I mean, I don't know the details or yours or your husband's reproductive health, but one of my good friends was conceived on…

I'm so sorry that you're going through that. Best of luck with your health.

You're right. I don't know why everybody apparently has sand up their yang today, and granted, I don't know a lot about this topic, but people are being especially nasty. It's one thing to put the dissenting information out there, and it's another thing to freak out and be incredibly rude about it.

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Cringing because she's now advertising casual sex in exchange for flowers. I don't care when or where or with whom she punched her v-card, but like, it's disappointing to see people act like sex is some special privilege that should be treated in such-and-such a manner and in a specific context, but then to cheapen…

Anybody else cringing at the fact that Adriana Lima retained her virginity until she was 27 for her husband because of her proclaimed religious virtues?

I can somewhat easily write this off as ten-year-olds being curious about sexuality. At that age, I certainly didn't understand the complexity of the horror that is rape—sadly, some children do find this out from their own experiences with abuse, but most have not. I had open parents who would explain things such as…

That's great! Thanks for linking to this. I'm a student at IU, and I hadn't heard of that before—I just signed their interested donor list! :) Unfortunately it looks like they might be located in Indy instead of Bloomington, but whatevs, I hope I can make the next event to donate tissue.

Thank you for sharing your story. If you don't mind me asking: are you satisfied with the way your parents handled telling you?

I thought this was going to be about Erika Eiffel, who seems to present herself a lot more seriously than the woman who married a building in this video. Look 'er up.

I see what you did there.