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12 Oct

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Our story begins with a cholera pandemic which started in the 1820s. There had been many before, and many after, but this one had Europe paranoid. This one, rather than being confined to faraway corners of their empires, had found its way to Europe.

The concern spread across the Atlantic, and an American preacher called Sylvester Graham was worried. He joined the Temperance movement and began preaching on health.

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8 Oct

The earliest reference to what was probably an internal condom comes from a legend about King Minos related by Antonius Liberalis in about 150CE. Settle down, kids, here's a story about the worst STI you can imagine, two unhappy marriages (and some bonus cross-dressing)

You might have heard of King Minos, the legendary king of Crete, who pops up in lots of stories. According to this story, he had a terrible affliction: his semen contained serpents and scorpions.

This semen containing a variety of spooky and poisonous fauna was, understandably, distinctly unpleasant for any women he had sex with. So unpleasant that his mistress died from having sex with him.

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6 Oct

On this day in 1932, Lester J. Goddard filed a patent application for a "vaginal receptacle" - what these days we would call a menstrual cup.

Goddard's "vaginal receptacle" wasn't the first menstrual cup in history, although it was the first design in this shape. According to his application, it was designed to solve the problem of existing cups being made of "hard, unyielding material" or prone to "distortion".

The receptacle was designed to be comfortable for the wearer: "that all exposed surfaces of the receptacle be very smooth,soft, pliant and free from stiff edges, shoulders, or undue bulges of any character tending to cause concentration of the pressure on the vaginal walls"

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2 Sep

It's #PCOSAwarenessMonth! This is going to be a long thread which we'll add to throughout September to give you a crash course in the basics on polycystic ovary syndrome over the month...

PCOS is an endocrine disorder (hormonal disorder/imbalance) which is very common - about 10% of cis women and people with ovaries have it. That means millions of people have it in the UK alone.

PCOS is called this because many people with PCOS have polycystic ovaries - multiple, small cysts on the ovaries which are caused by follicles which don't mature enough for an egg to be released.

The polycystic ovaries are not the cause of PCOS, they're a symptom of it.

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4 Aug

Hypatia (born around be 350-370 CE) was one of the classical period's most amazing women. A philosopher, astronomer mathematician and lecturer, she was said to be comfortable moving amongst men. She never married, and had one of history's iconic rejections of a proposal...

Picture the scene. Hypatia, the fuckin polymath philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, etc etc, is giving a public lecture, teaching knowledge. And then some dude, in the middle of her lecture, in the most egregious "more of a question than a comment" in history PROPOSES TO HER

At first, she tried to diffuse the situation by playing the lyre at him. But this dude was not to be deterred. He very much wanted to turn this lecture given by a respected philosopher, astronomer and mathematician into an opportunity to date her.

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2 Aug

We’d prefer not to air our linens in public (unless we’re showing you how vaginal acidity is normal). But we need to say something, and we need to ask your help. The pandemic has been rough for the entire museum sector. Now the Vagina Museum is at risk of becoming homeless.

Camden Market will not be renewing our lease. They’ve decided to turn the Vagina Museum’s premises into a clothes shop instead. We’ve asked about alternative buildings within the market, and they haven’t offered anything fit for purpose.

The one new space Camden Market have shown us is on a top floor, this would effectively relegate the Vagina Museum to the top shelf and out of sight.

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