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We are your ovaries

Welcome to spring, the season of new life… the month of the Chinese Moon Festival which celebrates harvests and generations. Round and pregnant with possibility (see what we did there?), we are your own twin moons.

Just like the moon, we have a cycle. But before we start on that, it might be good to tell you where we are, and what we look like. You see, while we’re the female version of the testes, we’re nowhere near as visible or obvious.

Firstly, we’re way smaller than the testes. Before puberty, we’re a smudge of tissue within your pelvic cavity (down low in your tummy). But as our hormones kick in – more on that later – we swell and

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