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FIVE HEALTH MYTHS ABOUT WOMEN BODY

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WANDERING
WOMB
In
Hippocrates’ time, it was thought that a woman’s uterus could travel around her
body. I guess because women are just giant empty vessels for baby-making.
Hippocrates called the uterus “an animal within an animal” because it responded
to things like odors. (Your womb likes nice smells, by the way.) Wandering womb
was thought to cause female hysteria, which originally could mean a variety of
symptoms, but became synonymous in the 19th century with what we’d today call
sexual dysfunction.
WOMEN HAVE
MORE TEETH’S
Probably one
of the best and most outlandish myths regarding female sexuality is vagina dentata,
or toothed vagina. (Can you even imagine? I mean, I accidentally bite the
inside of my cheek all the time.) The folk tale has cropped up in South
American tribes as well as in Hinduism as a caution against having sex and as a
deterrent for rape. I don’t think many people believe in the toothed vagina
anymore, but the concept is far from dead, with the recent invention of a
wearable condom having tooth-like prickles that can catch a man’s sex organ,
this was made for women to help prevent the increase of rape.

HAVING FEWER
TEETH’S
Women have
fewer teeth than men? Who in their right mind would ever think that?
Apparently, Aristotle would. Turns out he was wrong about a lot of things and
had some pretty strange ideas about women in general. (But what do you want
from him, really. It was a very different time). Wait, so which is it? Do women
have extra vagina teeth or fewer mouth teeth? Make up your mind, lol!
THAT BEARS
ARE ATTRACTED TO MENSES
No proper
blog post about the myths of women’s bodies would be complete without an
examination of perhaps the most famous myth of all: that bears are attracted to
menstruating women. At least for black bears, this myth is just that. Three
experiments were conducted in the early 1990s that attempted to measure a black
bear’s attraction to menstrual blood. The first experiment tried to determine
whether bears preferred tampons or trash. The second compared how bears reacted
to used tampons, unused tampons, tampons soaked in non-menstrual blood and
tampons with beef on them. The third experiment involved actual live human
women interacting with the black bears. (Evidently, bears in this region were
used to human contact.) What all tests found was that bears don’t give a crap
about your menstruation.
CARNIVOROUS
ANIMALS ARE SCARED OF MENSES
The study
summarized above isn’t perfect by any means, but it does dispel the myth that
bears are driven ravenous by the mere presence of a menstruating woman. But
what about the other way around? Maybe we have this idea of men as hunters
because menstruating woman actually scare away prey?
Not quite
true. Experiments conducted in the 1980s found no evidence that deer were
averse to menstrual blood. Researchers provided feed mixed with menstrual blood
and feed mixed with male and non-menstruating female urine to deer’s on a game
reserve. The deer inspected the menstrual blood first, but only fed out of the
urine feed. A similar study was conducted a few years later, this time with
venous blood from males, nonmenstruous urine and cow blood, along with regular
feed. This time the deer fed out of the regular feed, the urine feed and the
cow blood, but not the male blood. While this last experiment didn’t test
menstrual blood, it seems like prey are not really all that deterred from
menstrual blood.
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