Laura Dowling

And I said to my designer, like, I want it to be like a Roald Dahl book for adults.

Yeah.

to make it really interesting to read and all the design work.

Exactly, yeah.

And they can open it up at any page and they can see that there's lovely illustrations and really easy, concrete information there, but it's not too over-medicalized, which is what was really important to me.

So the whole reason for the book, I suppose, if we go back a little bit, was the shows.

And then the reason for the shows was some corporate talks that I'd done.

So just take, for instance, I was working in the pharmacy for 20 years and women would be coming in with all kinds of various complaints, not knowing how to name their bits, not knowing where to go to for help, having incontinence, prolapse, regular thrush that they couldn't get a handle on.

So I saw that firsthand.

And then I saw how shy they were about talking about it and how they didn't even want to get examined by their doctor.

So when I was asked to do a corporate talk series for a wellness crowd there a number of years ago, they kind of saw me talking about this on Instagram.

And I said to them, well, what do you want me to talk about?

And they said just any part of women's health.

So then I decided I'd go and I'd talk about women's intimate health to these ladies.

And I thought I'd, you know, mention sex and sexuality and really try and break open the conversation.

Plus, I didn't want to be just talking about the usual diet, sleep, exercise conversation.

So when I went into this first corporate talk that I did, there was about 200 women in front of me.

And I said, I'm Laura, I'm a pharmacist.

And the five main pillars of health are checking yourself, diet, sleep, exercise and orgasms.

And of course, I had them then, you know.