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.

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[karalee]

In her VERY SLIGHT defense, I don't remember that ever coming up in sex ed, and I had a pretty comprehensive class. But I think most of us were paying attention to how not to get pregnant. Which isn't usually the reason to have a hysterectomy, although it would certainly take care of that.

That said ... it isn't exactly ... a logical position to hold, unless she came from an area where the quality of medical care is extremely unfortunate and she made some kind of analogy to a fistula. Which is unlikely based on your report here. XD;