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Ear seeds are small seeds or pellets placed on specific points of the outer ear to apply gentle, continuous pressure. Traditionally made from the dried seeds of the vaccaria plant, they're now also produced in stainless steel and gold. The practice draws on auriculotherapy, a discipline developed in the 1950s by French physician Paul Nogier, who mapped the body's organs and systems onto points along the outer ear. Press the right point, the theory goes, and you send a signal through the...

Everyone talks about the sleeplessness, the feeding, the chaos of a new person in the house. The part that tends to go unmentioned is the estrangement from your own body. The sense that it no longer feels quite like yours, because it is running on someone else's schedule, meeting someone else's needs, and being measured almost entirely by what it produces. Desire, in that season of life, tends to go very quiet. For a lot of women it disappears almost completely for months, and if that is...

The myths we’ve been told about female orgasms For decades, women have been told there are two kinds of orgasms — clitoral and vaginal — and that one is somehow more mature or “real” than the other. This idea didn’t come from science. It came from outdated beliefs about sex that centered on male pleasure and minimized female anatomy. In reality, there’s only one type of orgasm — it just happens through different kinds of stimulation. The body is a connected network of nerves and tissues, and...