If you’re Australian, under 50 and you have a vagina, the words “Dolly Doctor” will elicit a wry smile.
For those visitors to Mamamia who may not have grown up here, no, this is not a weird post about someone who fixes toys.
Dolly Doctor is the name of the advice section in Dolly, a magazine for teenage girls which, before the internet, was one of the few places young girls could access information about their bodies.
Sounds almost quaint now but cast your mind back to a time before Google search, when printed material was the only way to privately find out about……STUFF.
Dolly Doctor was always the first section of the magazine you flicked to (even before the bit where you joyously pulled out the Wham or Hanson poster and practiced kissing it).