For most of human history, vaginas have been a hush-hush topic. Researchers didn’t have a medical term for vaginas until the late 1600s. Researchers didn’t include women in clinical trials until 1994.  Yet, even as vaginas mystified medicine, we’ve compiled some pretty interesting facts about them throughout the years.  When...

No matter how you frame it, motherhood is exhausting. However, since the early 90s, women have been battling over whether or not we belong in the workforce or at home raising children. It has created a difficult challenge of balancing work and motherhood. The pandemic handed us dozens of lessons, including...

On June 10, 1993, Congress passed the NIH Revitalization Act to establish guidelines for including women and people of color in clinical research. Until 30 years ago, women of childbearing potential were excluded from the early phases of many clinical trials. Researchers largely avoided the hormone cycle of the female body altogether,...

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, but we shouldn’t limit our conversation around sexual violence to one month in the year. 1 in 5 women will experience sexual assault in their lifetime. Intimate partner violence is the most common form of sexual, emotional and physical abuse and more than 10 million cases per year are...

Joylux welcomes guest blogger Marisa Zocco of Elephant Journal! A University of Southern California-educated journalist and creative writer, she holds a firm belief in the power of the written word to connect individuals and inspire a healthy exchange of differing ideas—the bigger the difference the better. Sometimes I feel like I’m...

Whether you’re spinning in the studio, cranking on your Peloton, or speeding down the open road, you may notice your cycling workouts lead to pain and discomfort for your pelvic floor. This can happen with any activity involving a saddle (including horse riding and motorbikes) because of the type of...