#40 - A Woman Shares Her Story - Jessica Pin, Anatomy Advocate

You Are Not Broken

Kelly Casperson, MD

Medicine, Health & Fitness

5 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Jessica Pin is an author and advocate, publishes frequently on her IG @Jessica_ann_pin and is passionate about education equality in regards to genital anatomy between the sexes. Her Goal: equitable coverage of the clitoris in medical literature & curricula to prevent harm. She has even published her own study! 3 top OB/GYN textbooks changed. Listen to her story about when and how she decided to get a surgery on her labia and what has happened since then. All labias are normal. All sizes are normal. Listen to how she has taken her experience into advocacy work. Her advice for physicians. She describes anatomy of the vulva for us. Biggest misconceptions in female anatomy. Negative body image affects sexual function! Her final thoughts on changing medicine to help women better! Thank you Jessica! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kj-casperson/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to You Are Not Broken, the only podcast that combines science, medicine, and psychology,
0:11.9	to re-educate your brain and help you live your best love life. And I'm your host, Ford certified
0:17.6	female urologist, Dr. Casperson.
0:27.8	Hi guys, I'm so excited today to welcome Jessica Pinn to our podcast.
0:29.8	She's going to tell us her amazing story.
0:33.9	She's an author and advocate and publishes frequently on her Instagram account.
0:36.3	You can find her at Jessica Ann Pinn.
0:38.5	She's so passionate about the education of quality regards to general anatomy between the sexes. Her goal is to have equitable coverage
0:44.4	of the clitoris in medical literature to prevent harm. So she's had studies published. She's just
0:50.1	had an amazing journey. And thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you. Well, when I was barely 18, I had a labiaplasty and I did it because
1:00.9	when I was 17, I was actually just looking for information about my genitals because I had
1:06.9	only had sex ed in thick grade and I had no idea what was going on and I didn't even know what a clitoris was. Right. And I had only had sex ed in thick grades and I had no idea what was going on and I didn't
1:11.6	even know what a clitoris was.
1:14.6	And I had heard people talking about the clitoris.
1:16.7	I didn't know what it was.
1:17.9	I went to look it up.
1:19.9	You know, I googled, where is my clitoris?
1:22.6	And then I saw, you know, vulva and I was like, what's a vulva? And I'm like, well, what's all this
1:27.6	other, like, what's going on, basically? And I googled Labia Minora and a bunch of, like,
1:34.9	before and after photos of Labiaplasia came up and Lady and Placie surgeons' websites came up.
1:40.4	That was the first thing that came up pretty much when I searched Labia Min menorah. And, you know, one problem that I talk about on my
1:47.4	Instagram and elsewhere is how, you know, doctors are
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