You’ve started to notice you cry at the drop of a hat, your boyfriend is driving you insane, you can’t focus on your school work/work and you feel like screaming at every person who remotely rubs you the wrong way… you assume it has to be because of your birth control! Maybe not. Medical studies show …
As a single girl living in Los Angeles, it seems as if my girlfriends are always telling me about a new dating app. Dating apps have completely changed the online dating game that was once dominated by website-based companies such as Match.com and eHarmony. Each app has its own gimmick modified a bit from the …
You wake up one morning and head to the bathroom because something just doesn’t feel, look or smell right. Something is off. You immediately start to panic. Thoughts come flooding into your mind like, “Oh my gosh, that son of a bitch cheated on me and gave me an STD,” “I should have never slept …
One of my biggest questions for society these days is, “Why is there only one standard of beauty?” It seems that with the help of my plastic surgeon colleagues, young women everywhere are morphing into doll-like clones of each other, complete with arched eyebrows, a ski jump nose and plump Kylie Jenner lips from the …
I am a child of the 1980s and a woman of the 2000s. When I pick up my phone on Friday night and hit the screen to order transportation, I expect to have a car at my building within minutes. When I get into that car, I can sync my Bluetooth, and I expect my …
I was at work last week, when one of the nurses turned to me out of the blue and asked, “Are you married?” “No,” I said. “Do you want kids?” she asked. “Yes,” I said. “You can do it on your own. You can get a sperm donor,” she told me.
You stand there. You feel timid. You’re either staring at the drug store floor or texting fervently in an effort to avoid eye contact with the pharmacist. You lift up the box and place it on the counter.
You’re sitting in the waiting room looking at a clipboard full of invasive questions. You hunch over the paper, and write in tiny script hoping the 65 year-old grandmother of three doesn’t see you writing that you are both single AND sexually active.
Up to 15 percent of women do not experience orgasms. As a gynecologist, I have seen many patients with this complaint, and all of them ask me what’s wrong with them. The first thing I do is ask if their partners are aware they are not having orgasms. Almost every single time the answer is, “No.” I …
I’ve never been what one would describe as skinny. Well, except when a patient called and asked to make an appointment with me. She described me to the receptionist as, “I don’t know her name, the skinny one.” I still list this day as one of the best days of my life. Like many women, …