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Euphemistically called "fertility awareness," the system was developed by a husband-and-wife team of Australian physicians, Evelyn and John Billings. It depends upon observing changes in the consistency of vaginal fluids. In the first days after menstruation, the vagina feels dry because of a decline in hormone production, a sensation that can be confirmed by the woman's examining finger. This is the first "safe" period. Within a few days, as the estrogen levels rise, the mucus feels tacky and appears cloudy and the fertile period begins. Then, at the estrogen peak, the mucus becomes smooth, slippery...
...first the damage may be relatively minor: a slight fever, fatigue and the reddish rash, which often takes a "butterfly" shape across the nose and cheeks. But as SLE progresses, severe inflammation may occur in the joints, hair fall out, and sores appear in the mouth, nose, throat and vagina. Unless lupus is somehow contained-or undergoes spontaneous remission-the heart and blood vessels may be damaged. The kidneys could begin to fail, and even the central nervous system can be affected...
...drug companies declare that the medication was effective in its basic purpose-combatting miscarriage-and that clear-cell adenocarcinoma, a cancer of the vagina or cervix, appears naturally in the population as a whole. In addition, according to one drug-company lawyer, the DES lawsuits have "many persnickety permutations." Although thousands of young women whose mothers took DES have developed the adenosis formation, so far fewer than 200 of them are known to be suffering from the cancer. One of the first legal complications for most victims in suing, however, is the difficulty in linking an individual pill user with...
...date back to the turn of the century, when the Curies' discovery of radium made possible a radiation source compact enough to be placed within a tumor. Since then, the technique has been considerably refined and has long been used to treat certain cancers of the neck, head, vagina and other parts of the body difficult to cope with surgically. Now, U.S. doctors, confronted by 90,000 new cases of the disease a year, are showing an increased interest in the use of interstitial implants against breast cancer as well...
Even fashion pictures of strong women seem designed to play on the fears of misogynist men. A Von Wangenheim photo in the current Vogue has a vagina dentata theme: a vicious dog faces the camera, with bared teeth directly in front of a woman's crotch. Doesn't the picture seem to say that women are sexual killers? "Well," rationalizes Von Wangenheim, "it works better that...