Medical Realities And Myths

Is big still beautiful? Venus did not suddenly appear in ancient Greece only to be stolen by the Romans, to be venerated by emperors as the archetypal goddess of love and sex. Her origins were tens of millennia earlier, near enough 35,000 years ago in Northern Europe. Then she was…

You might think women have the monopoly on hormones and HRT; but you’d be wrong. In fact many men also go through a period often called the ‘male menopause’. Now, the name doesn’t have much to do with what’s actually happening. Unlike the female menopause, where the female body has…

Old Ma Kelly With a bamboo belly And her tits tied up with string Sitting on the grass With a bugle up her arse Playing God Save the King … an age-old and cruel playground chant, describing with startling accuracy a poor exhausted Irish catholic wife who had suffered God…