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We’ve known for a while now that masturbating is a completely normal, healthy, and awesome practice. Doctors speak to the multitude of health benefits we get from it (we’ll talk about those later on), and almost everyone does it--95% of men and 89% of women, according to WebMD. Some (including me!) call it a self-love practice. 

And then there’s sadsturbating.

Period trackers. We’re into them. 

They seem helpful. They’re a nice way to become more aware of your cycles, your hormones, and your emotions. 

All good, right? 

Maybe not. 

Period and ovulation tracker applications, aka menstrual surveillance apps, are part of the growing ‘femtech’ industry, which has been developed under the pretense of improving women’s health. But what seems like an industry developed for women, may just be another space for men operated businesses to make money from women’s bodies.