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The Vagina Bible: Beating bad science on women's sexual health

Top Twitter gynaecologist Jennifer Gunter's new book, The Vagina Bible, attacks the bad science and downright ignorance she believes bedevil women's sexual health

By Wendy Glauser

21 August 2019

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FOR more than 10 years, Jennifer Gunter has been fact-checking claims about women’s bodies and writing about it all – sometimes humorously, at other times using expletives. She has been called Twitter’s resident gynaecologist and her Twitter fans (she has over 200,000 followers) describe those she has admonished for their ignorance as having been “guntered”.

Now, she is poised to reach out to many more when her book The Vagina Bible is published this month. The book offers scientific information on…

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