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Industrial designer Ariadna Izcara Gual demonstrates the new prototype and how the speculum can open once inserted. Foto: Tu Delft

It pinches, it’s cold, and there’s that metallic sound. Every woman knows the speculum. Invented through cruel experiments on enslaved women, its design is now being challenged.

Women are challenging hated gynecological designs

Industrial designer Ariadna Izcara Gual demonstrates the new prototype and how the speculum can open once inserted. Foto: Tu Delft
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In the spring of 2018, a statue of the American gynecologist James Marion Sims was lifted from its pedestal by a crane and removed from Central Park in Manhattan, New York.

It had not been a difficult decision.

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