A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.

• New moms: Carry around your placenta (all the cool kids are doing it)!
• Men fake orgasms too.
• Oh, those silly Victorians!
• Unpublished D.H. Lawrence manuscript reveals contempt for 1920s misogyny.
• Origami condoms.
• A pictorial of 1940s teenage culture.
• Worst male underwear ever.
• 8 medical cures that did more harm than good.
• Mormons and the American Indian Movement.
• 50% of Americans mentally ill?
• 15 vintage celebrity passports.
• X-rays of patent medicines reveal interesting ingredients.
• Colonial Williamsburg offers a history lesson to the Tea Party Republicans.
• Shedding new light on the Black Death.
• FDA approves return of controversial morning sickness drug.
• Does penis size really matter? A new study says yes.
• Semen cocktails are a thing now.