(Part 3) Top products from r/badwomensanatomy

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Usually the info about beauty, makeup, and hairstyles, are found in fashion history books, so here a couple of general fashion history:

• Auguste Racinet. Complete Costume History, is like THE fashion history book. Published in the 19th century, includes info not only about fashion, but beauty, hairstyles, interior design, fabrics, prints, etc. If you want to buy it, take the version of the link. There is a cheaper edition, but it is smaller, and the point of this book is the amount of detail in the illustrations, so go for the big one.
  
• Pictorial Encyclopedia of Historic Costume: 1200 Full-Color Figures, by Karl Rohrbach
  
• A Pictorial History of Costume From Ancient Times to the Nineteenth Century: With Over 1900 Illustrated Costumes, Including 1000 in Full Color, by Wolfgang Bruhn & Max Tilke.
  
  Some books about beauty:
  
  
• The book Facing Beauty:  Painted Women and Cosmetic Art analyses the beauty and makeup through the eyes of art, from the Renaissance to the early 20th century.
  
• Face Paint: The History of Makeup by Lisa Eldridge, she is a makeup artists for celebrities and fashion editorials, and she has a YouTube channel with videos that are a nice complement to the book.
  
• Beauty and Cosmetics 1550–1950, by Sarah Jane Downing.
  
• If you're more like a experimentation person, take a look at The American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Beauty, which ahs tutorials for hair and makeup.
  
• Classic Beauty: The History of Makeup, by Gabriela Hernández.
  
• This edition of Arqueología Mexicana (E37) is all about body modification in the prehispanic cultures: face an body paint, tattoos, ear, mouth, and nose piercings.... It is sadly not available to read online, BUT you can buy it and they send it anywhere in the world. It is a bilingual edition.
  
  Here some online resources:
  
  
• On this site there's a compilation of articles about makeup through the ages.
  
• Here's another cosmetics site with more resources from ancient times to the 2000s.
  
• A little bit about Victorian Makeup and beauty.
  
• A paper published on a dermatology journal, COSMETICS AND SKIN CARE PRODUCTS: A Historical Perspective, by ZoeDiana Draelos MD.
  
• Silvousplaits on YouTube reproduces historical hairstyles.
  
• Also on YouTube, Janet Stephens is my favourite with the most accurate historical hairstyles, and a ton of research behind. She does not upload so often, but you can follow her on Facebook too.
  
• If you're fluent in Spanish, you can download this paper about body modification in the prehispanic Mexico.
  
• A little bit about tattoos in Ancient Egypt.
  
• A LOT of downloadable papers about body modification in Ancient cultures.
  
  And finally, not a resource, but LBCC Historical sells beauty products from historical recipes of different centuries, but you know, without lead and stuff XD
  
  Yeah, I'm a fashion history nerd, in case you haven't noticed.

If she's pretty healthy, it's ultimately up to momma. VBAC is generally a lot safer and better for mom and baby than repeat cesareans. If she wants to attempt trial of labor, she needs to find an OB or midwife that will support her decision. Sometimes the Dr might say they don't recommend a vbac, but the Dr has a high cesarean rate. Most times when Dr's recommend cesareans, it's out of convenience (for the Dr) and fear of litigation, not what's best for mom and baby. Look up hospitals' cesarean rates in your area. Meet with different doctors/midwives until you find the one the supports your decisions and won't "bait and switch." Do your research and ask questions. Lots and lots of questions. Houston, TX has the largest medical center in the world and there's only one hospital that will allow vbacs after 2+ cesareans, and even though vbac is proven to be safer, Houston still has a high cesarean rate (33%), but also the highest maternal mortality rate in the country🤦🏽‍. So depending on your area, it may be hard (or easy) to find a hospital that will allow mom to attempt a vbac. A cesarean should never be an elective option and should only be reserved for emergencies. It's a major abdominal surgery that takes 6wks to heal from. The "postpartum period" is generally 6wks as well (as far as maternity leave goes, but postpartum can be as long as 2yrs). Do your research and make your own informed decisions, and find a Dr/midwife that supports your decisions. You have a choice in EVERYTHING when it comes to the birth of your child. Here are some links for more info and a few good books on the U.S. maternity system and the industrialization of birth. Also, finding a doula would be beneficial as well. Look up evidence based birth, and maternity care.

Source: I'm a doula, and have doula'd for multiple successful vbacs

https://vbacfacts.com
https://m.acog.org/Patients/FAQs/Vaginal-Birth-After-Cesarean-Delivery
https://www.amazon.com/Pushed-Painful-Childbirth-Modern-Maternity/dp/0738211664
https://www.amazon.com/Born-USA-Broken-Maternity-Children/dp/0520256336
https://www.amazon.com/Farmer-Obstetrician-Michel-Odent/dp/1853432040

I strongly recommend you send her a copy of "It's Perfectly Normal" by Robie H. Harris.

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> The definitive book about puberty and sexual health for today’s kids and teens, now fully updated for its twentieth anniversary.

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>For two decades, this universally acclaimed book on sexuality has been the most trusted and accessible resource for kids, parents, teachers, librarians, and anyone else who cares about the well-being of tweens and teens. Now, in honor of its anniversary, It’s Perfectly Normal has been updated with information on subjects such as safe and savvy Internet use, gender identity, emergency contraception, and more. Providing accurate and up-to-date answers to nearly every imaginable question, from conception and puberty to birth control and STDs, It’s Perfectly Normal offers young people the information they need—now more than ever—to make responsible decisions and stay healthy.

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"Most manga is of a sexual nature" is an enormous overreach. It might be disproportionately represented by English-language internet anime fanboys, but that doesn't reflect the state of manga in Japan. Manga is read widely in Japan, including young children. Some of the manga I've been reading lately include Chi's Sweet Home, a comedy manga about a kitten and her family; Yotsuba&!, a completely wholesome manga about a kindergartener; and a lot of manga based on Pokemon, which are as family-friendly as the Pokemon cartoon that's aired for children for decades.

I'm not defending the sexually exploitative nature of the many manga that are, but saying all manga is sexualized is as absurd as saying most video games are hyper-violent murder-sprees. M rated games exist, but most people play Mario, Pokemon, sports games, etc. Hypersexualized manga exist, but most Japanese people read non-sexual manga like Doraemon and Astro Boy.

Take a look at the historically highest-selling manga in Japan; most of the biggest contain little to no sexual content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_manga

Chuck Tingle is well worth checking out

(She's A Sentient Shampoo And He's A Living Conditioner Who Wants To Pound My Butt)[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YYWZNL8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_9rgXDb8JQJZ6P]

Carl is a struggling actor with a huge audition on the horizon, and he’s determined to embody every aspect of the role. The man Carl’s hoping to portray is ultra clean-cut, which couldn’t be farther from Carl’s rugged ways, but his sentient shampoo wife, Rinby, is willing to help him out with a bit of a makeover.

It suddenly becomes apparent that Carl has never once used conditioner, and to obtain the look he’s going for, this is a must. Now the loving couple is bringing home a handsome living bottle of conditioner named Norb, and Carl is about to experience the bisexual encounter of a lifetime. But is this shampoo and conditioner combo enough to spruce him up for the big audition?

This erotic tale is 4,100 words of sizzling bisexual human on sentient hair product action.

Edit: how the fuck do links work

From what I remember it seemed like a pretty reasonable book though. I'm going to see if I can look it up somewhere

Edit: What's Up Down There: Questions You'd Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Were Your Best Friend-Lissa Rankin, MD

https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Down-There-Questions-Gynecologist/dp/0312644361

It's becoming a real issue in China now as there is a shortage of women to marry. On top of that, many women are leaving their parents' houses and going to work in the factories. They're earning their own money, which is giving them economic power and giving them more control on when or if they get married. There's a great book about it called Factory Girls

I'm going to go point by point, because you just have the order of things so completely wrong that it is not funny and no longer productive.

> No, philosophers have no expertise to talk on matters of biology.

That might matter if this was about some biological principal. It's not. It's about characterizations of things. Which is wholly philosophical. This is not about the chromosomal mechanism that orders pairs from XX to XY or abnormalities that create XO and XXY or even XXX. This is not about that. This is about when we call something (something that does not have axiomatic criteria to begin with) male and when we call something female and why that does or does not matter. That. Is. Philosophy. The philosophy OF language. The philosophy OF biology. The philosophy OF mathematics. They are all aspects of philosophy. I'm sorry you don't know just how expansive philosophy is, but please stop pretending like you know what you are talking about.

> There is key subject matter knowledge in other disciplines that a philosopher has no grasp on nor understanding of.

Ironic...

> I don’t know what your obsession with Michel Foucault is. Is he the only writer you know of? You can stop linking his books because I’m not reading them. I don’t care about what a philosopher has to say about any of this. These are questions for the hard sciences to answer.

If you want to have any discussion of sex or sexuality without Michel Foucault you will be laughed out of every academic setting that will ever exist. Also, as a side note, Foucault would never have called himself a philosopher. He was a theorist.

> hard sciences

You are a caricature.

> Bingo! The exact same thing can be said about the basic defining characteristics of both sexes.

I have never said anything to the contrary. In general, evolutionarily, it is most common for humans to identify in accordance with the two most conventionally accepted sexual identities.

> We don’t eliminate the possible that genetic defects can occur, but it’s overwhelmingly true that the human species has two sexes that each share the same general characteristics (different internal and external organs, hormones, etc)

Wrong. It is overwhelmingly true that most humans identify in ways that have conventionally been considered male and female. However, that is a VERY loaded statement entailing aspects of biology, sociology, philosophy, epistemology, ontology, etc. Whether or not a majority of humans fall within those "categories" is irrelevant as to whether those "categories" are real. Realness is a very odd concept. In this sense Foucault would call these "transactional realities" or things that aren't real but have real effects. You can start here for that. Or I could send you on the hunt for something By Judith Butler or Althusser if you'd rather. Maybe Engels is more up your alley?

There are a couple great books you should read, the first one just came out and is called 'The Wonder Down Under: The Insider's Guide to the Anatomy, Biology, and Reality of the Vagina' It was written by two medical students and answers so many questions! (I'm 32 and didn't know some things about my own anatomy.) Another one, called 'Deal With It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain and Life as a Gurl' (please forgive the silly title, it came out around 2001) has answers to not only what is and isn't normal bodywise, but also teaches you about a lot of other stuff teens deal with.

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi?

The same person also wrote Embroideries which is fantastic and quite relevant to this subreddit's interests.

Looks a bit like the book I got my kids. It's not the stork. I got this book when my toddlers started asking what their vulva was
https://www.amazon.com/Its-Not-Stork-Families-Friends/dp/0763633313

Admittedly, you can goodbye depression

And she quite literally wrote the book on the subject!

I've always had an aptitude for anatomy, and what my education lacked I filled in with the right section of the library. The sheer breadth of literature on not just the basic mechanics of sex, but even on women's fantasies, and debunking myths.

Apologies if this has already been posted here; I searched, but it didn't come up.

I first saw this in a post) by /u/Yiotter on /r/wtf about two years ago. I was browsing through the posts here when I was reminded of it and figured some people here might enjoy it.

And here's the entire text, to make it easier to read:

>The seventy-year-old female patient had a history of frequent urinary-tract infections. She had a fever and slight back pain, so I ordered a catheterized urine specimen to be sent to the lab. I went on to the other patients, but th nurse soon returned and said she had tried to cath the woman but couldn't find her urethra -- the opening to the bladder. She had asked several other nurses to help her cath the lady, but no one could find her urethral opening. I decided to help, and went to the patient's bedside. I found an elderly, pleasant woman who told me about the history of frequent urinary problems and told me she was childless.

>I examined the woman's perineum and identified the larger oriface of what appeared to be the vaginal fault and searched above this for the urethral opening. I couldn't find an opening either, but as I looked, some urine trickled out of the vagina. Suspecting a fistula connecting the bladder to the vagina, or an embedded urethral meatus, I decided to look inside the vagina with a speculum. As I readied to do this, however, I noticed something underneath the vagina, on the perineum, and looked closer. I found the patient's vagina and intact hymen under what I had assumed was the vagina. I realized that the upper opening she was using as a vagina was in fact the patient's urethra. I asked the woman if she had any problems with sexual relations with her husband.

>"Not really. It hurt the first year or so, but it was fine after that."

>She had been married for fifty-two years.

>Charles Hagen, M.D.

>Auburn, Alabama


And this is the book it's taken from.

For her book Learning to Lose, Dale Spencer used audio tapes to evaluate which gender spoke the most in mixed-gender university classrooms. Men were found to always talk more, and they could not perceive how much they spoke. Men perceived the ratio of being 'equal' when women spoke only 15% of the time, and thought that women were dominating the conversation if that percentage rose to only 30%.