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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gradually increase in size as a result of the filling-up of blood vessels. In addition, the labia minora (the vulva's inner folds) turn bright pink, a process that Dr. Masters compares biologically with changes in female monkeys' exposed "sex skin." A lubricant appears in the vagina. As excitement proceeds to the next phase, the pigmented rings around the nipples (areolae) become engorged and impinge upon the erect nipples. The breasts increase in size by 20% to 25%. ∙PLATEAU. A pink mottling appears over the chest, spreads to the breasts and "actually coalesces in the terminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Physiology: The Nature of Sexual Response | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

Among women there were even more severe cases in which massive cancers had spread from uterus to large bowel and bladder, or from bowel to uterus and bladder. For them Dr. Brunschwig devised a still more radical operation, removing not only the vagina, cervix and uterus, but much of the lower colon and also the bladder. This necessitates making an artificial bladder from a section of small bowel, or leading the ure ters into the colon, which then empties both urine and feces into a "wet colostomy" bag. After more conventional operations for rectal cancer that has not spread widely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: The Most Radical Operation | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

...bear her first child, she was full of radiant hope. Her labor was hard. But the next days were worse. Doctors would not let her see her daughter, named Corine. The baby had no arms, her face was disfigured, and her anal canal emptied through her vagina. When the deception could go on no longer and Suzanne saw her baby, she was stunned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Thalidomide Homicide | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

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