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“If your vagina could talk or wear something, what would it say or wear?” asked Eve Ensler in her award-winning play The Vagina Monologues. Various answers come to mind. One thing it probably would do is ask you to choose your gynecologist well. But for first-timers, and even for some who’ve already been to one, the idea of going to an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-gyne, can be scary.

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Lisa, 25, has never gone through a gynecological examination before.

“I’ve been meaning to [see a gynecologist],” she says. “I’ve just been delaying it. Kasi I feel apprehensive about it. Nakakailang. I also find it quite intrusive—I get put off by that.”