Catherine Gigante-Brown

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I thought cancer was behind me. Until I had a weird pain near my left ovary which lasted for several days. It felt a lot like ovulation...Only, at 56, that train had left the station a long time ago.

The santero sent us off with a shopping list of ite

Food can be more than nourishing; it can be healing.

A new U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation on mammograms ensures more women will die of breast cancer.

Why, when I'm cool with being a salt-and-pepper chick, does it so clearly unnerve others?

I asked a handful of women: why are people so scared of ladyparts?

sex sage. fetish specialist. author.

That’s the thing about being a breast cancer survivor — it’s always there: it never goes away. The scars, the fear that lurks in the back of your mind like a boogeyman. You’re going along nicely, living your merry life, and you’re fine, until you’re not.

Candida Royalle pretty much invented couples erotica. She made it socially-acceptable. Respectable. The women in her films looked like real women and had real, comfortable female bodies. And her movies actually had stories. Good stories. She hired her friends—adult legends like Annie Sprinkle, Veronicas Hart and Vera, and Gloria Leonard — to create Femme films too.