The Story of the Cliterus

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The stories that we tell about our organs, they shape what we know. Science has sort of minimized it in many ways. Or take the vagina for example. It's been treated as kind of this, like, tube for people's penises. We need to fill in that background and focus on parts that have been blurred out.

There's an old story scientists tell about human ovaries: that they are ticking clocks that only lose eggs, never gain them. Now that story might be changing, opening the door to new treatments for infertility and menopause.

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