Hogwarts, My Warts, and Coitus Illegitimus: What you might not know about HPV
Up until the early 1900s, warts found anywhere on the body were all attributed to the “human wart virus.”
Flora: A Poem
Confident child.I carried the little budjust below my breastbonein that unguarded ganglia of nerves. Thenyour filthy handsbelow my collarbonescaused such desiccation.There is no rejuvenation ofdead buds or dead nerves.Dry leaves stuck in my throatsuffocating poetry, intimacy, and kinship. And soI lay my healing hands onclavicle and symphysis and sacrumto succor buds in other girlsin vindication […]
An Indelicate History of Sex and Sexually Transmitted Infections, Part 2
Continuing the story of sex and STIs following Part 1 of An Indelicate History posted on this blog earlier. Here we cover the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans.
Paddendum Newsletter’s STI Quiz
Test your knowledge about the common sexually transmitted infections
Our Closest Frenemies: Secrets of our Genital and Bellybutton Biomes
Most bacteria are, like people, “either good or simply present.” — The Belly Button Diversity Project The Human Microbiome Project identified many of the microorganisms found in the human body revealing that, because we each have unique experiences in varied environments, we each have a unique microbiomic fingerprint. It is constantly changing its composition to […]
May the Best Sperm Swim: the Latest Research on Sperm May Surprise You
Screwy sperm My house sits up on a bluff across the creek from a popular “put in” spot for kayakers. A picture with my house incidentally in the background once graced the cover of Kayaking Magazine! From my vantage point, I can watch the boaters as they navigate the rocks and the bridge pylons where […]