maybe the ultimate bad taste medical publication

[bachophile]

Attractiveness of women with rectovaginal endometriosis: a case-control study

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22985951/

Conclusion(s): Women with rectovaginal endometriosis were judged to be more attractive than those in the two control groups. Moreover, they had a leaner silhouette, larger breasts, and an earlier coitarche.

it was retracted in 2020 after a huge outcry and the authors issues a semi apology

https://www.fertstertdialog.com/posts/8288-attractiveness-of-women-with-rectovaginal-endometriosis-a-case-control-study

i dont really know what they were thinking and how it passed peer review

[George K]

I want to know how (and why) you found this.

[jon-nyc]

You know how this probably started - a couple of docs started to notice that their rectovaginal endometriosis cases were often hot.

[bachophile]

@george-k floating around medical twitter