This is why we need sex ed.

[hannah]

Today I met a woman who believed internal organs fall out after a hysterectomy.

A mother of two, in her mid-thirties, believed that.

I like to think I clarified the issue by telling her that simply doesn't happen, much the way I hope I clarified her fear of getting 'bulky' by assuring her neither of us had the testosterone production necessary to achieve such a look, but man. That was a bewildering exchange.

Comments

[petra]

I'm a bit concerned about long-term bladder issues after my hysterectomy, but under no circumstances was I worried about things falling out because, not to put too fine a point on it, what was once a cervix is now a dead end. Nowhere to fall.