What's Up Down There?: Questions You'd Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend - Rankin Lissa Md And Christiane Northrup Md

Written entirely in Q&A form, this ob/gyn guide is alarmingly frank. (One question: “Does having anal sex give you a stretched out butthole and make it so you can’t hold in your farts and poop?”) The subtitle says the book answers questions a best friend would tackle if she were (or “was,” as the grammatically incorrect wording says) a gynecologist. But would most readers really talk to pals about such things? Rankin tries to sound chatty, but chapter titles such as “pee” and “butts” simply come across as unprofessional. She litters the book with expressions such as “va jay jay” (instead of vagina), “boobs” (instead of breasts), and “the big O” (instead of “orgasm”). Some readers may want to know about the author’s sex life, but others may find it off-putting. (She “chats” with her vagina, which she calls her “yoni”—Sanskrit for “source of life.”) Still, the book does give good medical information, and surprisingly, the well-respected Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom (1994), writes a glowing foreword. Just don’t whip this book out on a crowded train. --Karen Springen

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