"We found nothing." "It's all in your head." "It's normal to hurt." No. That is not normal. If you have ever heard one of these phrases in a doctor's office, you are not alone. And you did not imagine your pain. What medicine has long refused to hear It is no coincidence that women's pain took so long to be recognised. For centuries, Western medicine used the concept of hysteria — from the Greek hystera, meaning uterus — to label what it could not explain in women. Nervousness, unexplained...

The clitoris is one of the most overlooked organs in the human body. Yet all little girls discover it very early — sometimes even before birth, during intra-uterine life. It is a hidden organ, long taboo, rarely discussed. Once silenced and shameful, it is fortunately gaining ground in public discourse. It is time to give it its due. An organ present before birth The female foetus begins developing its clitoris as early as the eighth week of pregnancy. Observational studies have shown...

When science rediscovers the intelligence of the female body… Let's be honest: female anatomy has long been a great mystery to medicine. Anatomical descriptions of the clitoris existed long before 1998 — most notably the remarkable work of anatomist Georg Ludwig Kobelt in 1844. Australian urologist Helen O'Connell had to restore this knowledge in 1998 using modern imaging techniques. Decades of medical silence had erased what science already knew. Yes. 1998. The year of the World Cup,...