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Women’s Health Specialists a Feminist Women’s Health Center
Orange County, California: this is a women’s health movement demonstration against local newspaper sponsored abortion debate among men.
This is another kind of demonstration. The theme of this presentation; CONTROL OF OUR REPRODUCTION.
The women in this slideshow are normal healthy women of all sexual orientations. They met in Self Help groups.
This is a friendship group of women doing vaginal Self Exam, using a speculum, mirror and light,
women can see their own cervix, the entrance to the uterus.
Self-help group of women taking turns looking at one woman’s cervix.
Looking through the speculum at a woman’s cervix. Notice the opening (os) which looks like a horizontal line. The cervix is pink and healthy.
This healthy woman has vaginal yeast overgrowth, a common condition. Many women use self help home remedies to treat yeast (such as yogurt).
This woman has Trichomonas, a parasite that often has a foamy white secretion. There are home and medical remedies that can be used.
The cells of this woman’s cervical canal (red columnar cells) are visible on the face of her cervix. This is a normal variation of a Squamo-coloumnar junction.
This woman is menstruating. Her menstrual blood highlights the smooth surface of her cervix and the rough vaginal walls, which is normal.
This woman has signs of fertility, ovulation. Her os is open and she has Fertile mucus (the stretchy secretion on the face of her cervix).
This woman has a common condition called cervicitis, a red patch on her cervix. There are many causes and it doesn’t necessarily need to be treated.
The normal healthy woman has a tipped uterus. A tipped uterus does not effect whether or not a woman can get pregnant.
Intra Uterine Device (IUD) string; IUD inside uterus. This is all the doctor sees when they check.
This healthy post menopausal woman has normal folds on her vaginal walls and plenty of vaginal secretions.
This woman is sharing her experience having an abortion in a woman-controlled setting. The health worker supports the woman by sharing information and offering uterine massage for cramping.
Women are active participants in their own care in a woman controlled clinic. This woman is on her way to aftercare, most women find that their cramping is gone after a suction abortion in 5-10 minutes.
Self Help women train themselves to fit cervical caps, a safe barrier method of birth control now available in clinics.
The Del-Em menstrual extraction device was invented by Lorraine Rothman in 1971. Women in self help groups developed this for reproductive control. See A New View of a Woman’s Body for more information.
Self Helpers have been activists for women to have more control over their birth options.
In Self Help women discuss the variety of normal pubic hair patterns.
This woman is separating her inner labia showing the urethra (entrance to the bladder), the vaginal opening with fertile mucus, and the shiny smooth perineal skin below.
Another variation of normal: at the top the woman’s glans of the clitoris, the hood of skin, her labia, vaginal opening and surrounding pubic hair.
Another variation of a normal clitoris. Self Helpers began to include all the structures involved in sexual excitement and orgasm as part of the clitoris after viewing Mary Jane Sherfey’s work.
Mary Jane Sherfey’s observations on the clitoris: Glans, shaft, legs and vestibular bulbs are shown below.
In the book A New View of a Woman’s Body feminists redefine the clitoris (front view). This illustration shows the glans, shaft, legs, and vestibular bulbs, all parts of the clitoris.
(side view) The grey areas are erectile tissue: surrounding the urethra, inside the labia and inside the perineum.
Describe the parts of the clitoris.
Next 5 slides are the clitoris during sex. First one is pre-excitement.
Second clitoris sex slide is excitement.
Third clitoris sex slide is plateau.
Fourth clitoris sex slide is orgasm.
Fifth clitoris sex slide is resolution.
Happiness is knowing your own cervix! The staff of Redding Women’s Health Specialists.