The New Age of Vaginal Quackery
Harriet Hall, Skeptical Inquirer
The status of women in our society continues to improve. As the cigarette commercial says, You've come a long way, baby. Indeed, it seems we now have Equal Opportunity Quackery.Sex sells. It's always been a popular target for quackery, but the quackery used to be directed mainly at men. In the early twentieth century, Dr. John Brinkley made a lot of money promising to rejuvenate men by surgically implanting goat testicles into their scrotums.
The status of women in our society continues to improve. As the cigarette commercial says, You've come a long way, baby. Indeed, it seems we now have Equal Opportunity Quackery.Sex sells. It's always been a popular target for quackery, but the quackery used to be directed mainly at men. In the early twentieth century, Dr. John Brinkley made a lot of money promising to rejuvenate men by surgically implanting goat testicles into their scrotums.