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		<title>Anal intercourse</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heterosexual anal intercourse is not a favorite of women as it is of men, although it is being practiced more often than perceived.
Is anal intercourse bad? As with every other sexual practice, anal intercourse is fine as long as it is done consensually (by agreement of both parties) and safely, which includes proper hygiene.
The main [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womentc.wordpress.com&blog=2830342&post=403&subd=womentc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sonogram</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ultrasound is a cyclic sound pressure at average frequency of 20 kHz, above the human&#8217;s hearing ability.
Gynecologic sonogram works like a sonar in a submarine: it sends a beam out, and if the beam encounters a solid object (i.e. another submarine, a rock, a cyst, a fibroid, cancer) it returns its image by displaying it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womentc.wordpress.com&blog=2830342&post=394&subd=womentc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Kegels?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Arnold Kegel (1894-1984) was the gynecologist responsible for introducing squeeze exercises for increasing vaginal muscle tone. The particular muscle, puboccocegeous (PC) is part of a trampuline-like network of muscles that comprise the pelvic floor that supports the pelvic outlet.  Today, these exercises may be known as Kegels, PC excericses, or Pelvic Floor exercises.
When should [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womentc.wordpress.com&blog=2830342&post=391&subd=womentc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Penis &amp; thrusting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thrusting during intercourse is the rocking movement of the penis in the vagina, done rhythmically as per the male&#8217;s arousal.  It is the flip-side of rubbing the penis to arousal during manual sex or oral sex.
How deep does the penis thrust during intercourse? As deep as the vaginal depth allows, as deep as the male&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womentc.wordpress.com&blog=2830342&post=387&subd=womentc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mikvah &amp; intercourse</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Observant Jewish women follow the laws of Niddah, a time when she is considered ritually impure and must refrain from any physical contact with her husband, including sexual abstention. Click here to read more about it.
The end of Niddah is signified by going to the Mikvah (ritual bath) where she immerses in a deep pool [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womentc.wordpress.com&blog=2830342&post=382&subd=womentc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>About stirrups</title>
		<link>http://womentc.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/about-stirrups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During gynecologic exam, the woman is asked to slide down to the edge of the examination table for best visualization of the area and to accommodate the use of the speculum.  This position is medically known as the dorsal lithotomy position.
Stirrups were invented by Bert H Simpson in 1908 and patented in March 1909 &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womentc.wordpress.com&blog=2830342&post=367&subd=womentc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vaginismus, returns?</title>
		<link>http://womentc.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/vaginismus-returns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vaginismus is a common condition that affects women worldwide regardless of their culture, religion, education, sexual orientation, or family status.  Vaginismus is a somatic (body-mind) reaction to fear/apprehension of vaginal penetration.  It happens instantaneously and involuntarily.
Women with vaginismus tend to suffer in silence and shame, thinking they are the &#8216;only one&#8217; with this problem, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womentc.wordpress.com&blog=2830342&post=356&subd=womentc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vagina, sterile?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women often believe that their vagina is a sterile environment and that special cleaning methods are needed to keep it as such.  If it were true, then men should have sterilized their penises before penetration, right?
Fact: the vagina is not at all sterile but rather a a host to many type of bacteria, all composing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womentc.wordpress.com&blog=2830342&post=353&subd=womentc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ovarian cancer clues</title>
		<link>http://womentc.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/ovarian-cancer-clues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report just released, 7 Clues to Ovarian Cancer, raises the point that this dreadful disease is not as silent as believed to be, and that early detection may be possible.
We recommend reading the entire article, but here are the 7 clues (symptoms that were found associated with ovarian cancer):

Abdominal distension
Urinary frequency
Abdominal pain
Postmenopausal bleeding
Loss [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womentc.wordpress.com&blog=2830342&post=347&subd=womentc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Orgasm exercises?</title>
		<link>http://womentc.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/orgasm-exercises/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The vaginal wall is lined with involuntary muscles that keep it functional.   We cannot exercise these muscles nor command them to move this way or that way.
However, the area also has voluntary muscles that you can command, commonly known as the PC muscles, which participate in the Kegel exercises = tightening and relaxing these muscles [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womentc.wordpress.com&blog=2830342&post=342&subd=womentc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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