'What shocks me the most is how much modern wellness is actually just patriarchal myths repackaged to look feminist.' —DrJenGunter
The Winnipeg-born, San Francisco-based OB/GYN, who specializes in vulvar and vaginal diseases, recently dropped her first book,, which provides fact-checked and medically backed information on anything and everything you need to know about, well, the vagina. “There is so much patriarchal messaging in everything surrounding the ‘dirty’ aspect of women’s bodies,” Gunter says over the phone. “And that’s because telling women they are dirty is profitable.
Here, Twitter’s resident OB/GYN shares some of the weirdest, yet most-common, vagina myths she hears on the reg.“A lot of people use yogurt in their vaginas [for bacterial vaginosis], and that’s not like .01 percent of people. I run a specialty vaginitis clinic and there are number of people who do this. But women don’t just come up with sticking random things up their vagina. There are sources online that are telling people to do it.
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