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Cherry Healey has spent more than a decade listening to women talk about their bodies — and what she’s heard has stayed with her. ‘I’ve been working in the women’s health space for over ten years,’ she says, ‘trying to learn as much as I can about women’s health and how I can help.’ What emerges, again and again, is not confusion or exaggeration, but frustration. ‘A lot of women I speak to say they don’t feel heard. They feel frustrated at the inequality in the care they receive.’

With medical support lacking for everything from endometriosis to menopause, women are finding validation and advice in anonymous forums. But is this an effective strategy for wellbeing amid failing healthcare structures, or is it feeding a tangle of misinformation?

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Let’s talk about sex. Many insist that it really does get better with age. After all, with age comes experience, confidence… and lack of responsibility, it seems. New reports suggest that sexually tra