How little education yeshiva-schooled women have about their bodies. I went to a school with a substantial observant minority, and once, through a closed door, overheard a conversation where the health service doctor was explaining the mechanics of sex and the affects of the birth control pill to a woman who was about to be married! I couldn't believe it. I never found out who the woman was, fortunately.

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