There are a lot of things Dr. Jen Gunter would like you to know. For starters, most supplements are a waste of money. CBD is a scam. Underwire bras do not cause cancer. You actually can get an IUD if you?ve never been pregnant. Your vagina, under no circumstances, should smell like a pina colada. And, for the love of yoni, please don?t shove a jade egg up there.
The 53-year-old Winnipeg-born ob-gyn will tell you this with the conviction that comes from 24 years of clinical experience and the sass of your saltiest girlfriend. (There will be f-bombs.) And she?ll tell you this anywhere and everywhere?on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram, on her blog, in her monthly columns in the New York Times, in her upcoming book, The Vagina Bible, or her upcoming web series, Jensplaining, or, if you?re lucky, in person. Her vagenda (her portmanteau, not mine): to call BS on every single falsehood we?ve ever been sold about our bodies and to empower women with the straight facts about reproductive health, from the complexities of vulvar pain to basic female anatomy. (To that end, she recently built a 3-D model of the clitoris out of her kids? modelling clay, complete with a toilet-paper-tube vagina and a urethra fashioned from a McDonald?s straw.) We need Gunter now?desperately. While the realm of women?s health has long been riddled with fiction, thanks to a murky stew of old wives? tales, patriarchy and shame, it feels particularly fraught in 2019. ?Twenty years ago, it seemed we just ha...