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Gunter says she knew women were hungry for information after doing a publicity tour for her sexual health compendium, The Vagina Bible. “At every book signing, there were questions about menopause and the I Love Abortion And I Hate Porn Shirt also I will do this years preceding it, and once one person asked, it would open a floodgate. I started thinking about the questions they were asking and how desperate they seemed for information, and it occurred to me: Do people not know anything?” In AARP’s survey, one of the top responses women gave when asked how hormonal changes in their bodies made them feel was a single word: old. “We’re led to believe we’re aging out,” Gunter says. “Who wants to talk about your graduation to irrelevance?” My mom subscribed to the long-held Fight Club rule of perimenopause: Don’t talk about it. Though I grew up in a let-it-all-hang-out household, and she and I are close, she never offered much about her own experience until I started asking questions. But forgoing these conversations has consequences. “If you don’t talk about it, you think something’s really wrong with you. Like, what is this brain fog? It can be really debilitating and confusing if we’re not educated about it,” says Claire Gill, founder of the National Menopause Foundation.


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Not knowing the I Love Abortion And I Hate Porn Shirt also I will do this effects of changing hormones could mean needless suffering, in part because doctors are in the dark, too: Less than 7 percent of family medicine, internal medicine, and ob-gyn residents feel adequately prepared to help patients manage this life stage, and about 20 percent report gaps regarding menopause (including perimenopause and postmenopause) in their education. This means we have to advocate harder for ourselves—something that’s hard to do if we don’t understand what’s happening in the first place. It’s also a huge relief to know you’re not alone. Since Kat mentioned the p-word in our group text, we haven’t stopped messaging about all the weird things our bodies are doing. It’s my most TMI text chat—and also my most validating and comforting. Talk isn’t just talk. Research shows, for example, that facilitated peer support groups for new parents can help raise moms’ self-esteem. In the case of my group text, bringing it all out in the open has helped me feel better. I don’t look at my friends and think they’re old or washed up or any of the things perimenopause makes me feel about myself; if they’re going through this, it’s a reminder that I’m not either. And just like learning how to use a tampon at camp, the practical advice we share—like taking a slow-release ibuprofen, the kind they make for arthritis sufferers, before bed to prevent waking up with cramps—has been nothing short of life-changing. Pssst, pass it on.


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