There's something so nostalgic about Dolly Doctor isn't there? The whole ritual of taking a shiny new issue ofDolly Magazineinto your room and ripping open the sealed section (eep!), chucking the torn strip in your bin and hoping no one would see it, because OMG HOW NAUGHTY OF YOU.

And as you flipped through the pages, it was all in there. Everything. Nothing was off limits or too embarrassing for Dolly Doctor. It was our bible.

"If you put your finger in your vagina, can you get pregnant?"

"Why can't I get a tampon in?"

"Why is there white stuff in my undies?"

These were the kind of questionsDolly Doctoranswered on the reg - all the sticky stuff about puberty, sex and relationships. She was like the older sister we never had - always on hand to hear out all the stuff that was too cringey to ask our mothers.

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Now, Dr Melissa Kang, the woman behindDolly Doctor, is here to guide and inform the next generation of young adults, co-authoring a new book with Yumi Stynes.

It's calledWelcome to Consent,and it's everything the Australian Government consent video is not. (No milkshakes references. Not one).

So, we sat down and had a chat with Dr Melissa, and asked her what it was like answering the secrets of Australian girls for 23 years.

The most common questions we askedDolly Doctor.

Before we get into it, yes - all the questions were real! Gosh, you guys.

"They were mostly from girls who were going through puberty. A really common question would be, 'I've got this white stuff in my underpants, what is this? I don't have my period yet.' A very kind of common biological phenomenon of which obviously they learn about periods in school, but maybe not what happens right before you get your period."

Dr Melissa said other common questions were things like breast development and stretch marks. While you tend to think of teenagers and puberty being all about pimples, it's interesting that things like stretch marks were a more common question.

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"When it comes to sexuality and sexual awakening, there were a lot of questions from young readers about these experiences of being aroused, turned on, horny and being kind of freaked out by it," Dr Melissa said.

"A lot of them would say, 'What does this mean? I've had this bodily reaction when I think about this person who I don't even really like', or 'I've had some sexual thoughts about a girl, does that mean I'm gay?'"

Bless. Don't you just want to give these little cherubs a squeeze?

"But quite a lot of them were about masturbation. We say this in the new book - it's my absolute belief that boys are not hornier than girls. Girls are just as horny, but we don't talk about it. So, that was the insight I gained about young girls and young adolescents' sexual response."

Along with questions about masturbation, Dr Melissa said there was just a whole heap of questions about sex.

"They weren't thinking about doing it - they weren't at that stage. But they were probably hearing stuff, seeing stuff and wondering things like, what oral sex is and how does it actually happen, and how do two women have sex together."

How Dolly Doctorletters changed over the years.

Before the Internet, Dolly Doctor was the home of sex education. But over the decades, Dr Melissa said girls became more and more educated and had a better understanding of their anatomy - whether it was through school or a little old thing called the Internet.

"One of the biggest things I noticed over the years was more sexually explicit and technically correct language around genitals. There was perhaps a greater awareness of the vulva and the components of the vulva, with girls naming those areas - clitoris, vulva and vagina - rather than perhaps using euphemisms or not being quite sure."

The other thing Dr Melissa noticed? How pubic hair completely disappeared over the decades.

"The other significant trend was that there were more and more questions about how to remove pubic hair and as a consequence of that, noticing that the vagina/labia were asymmetrical or didn't look right."

Dr Melissa said that this probably correlated with a lot more pornography becoming accessible, with girls beginning to worry or become embarrassed that their genitals weren't attractive enough.

"When I think about the influence of online pornography and how that might have impactedDollyreaders and questions about sex - I didn't see a lot of that because they were younger readers and weren't at that stage in their lives," she said.

"They were coming into puberty and growing pubic hair, but at some point they stumble across porn or someone says something about it and they start to remove their pubic hair and it becomes a norm."

The end of an era.

Dolly Magazinefinished up in 2016, after 46 years. If you grew up flicking through these glossy pages, you can't help but feel a sense of sadness about losing something we used to rely on for so many years.

And for Dr Melissa, it's no different. She said she misses hearing the curious voices of young girls.

"I think that we have lost something. It's not necessarily because of the Internet as such, but rather we've lost the one place to go to. I think from the perspective of adults like myself and other health professionals, I really felt like there was a relationship between the magazine and the readers - even though it was anonymous," she said.

"It really felt like myself and others who worked forDollyand wrote for Dolly Doctorreally got an insight into who these readers were. And there was this interesting relationship between the reader and us, and it was a mutual learning in a way. I think that's what's been lost."

For teenagers today, information about health, sexuality and anatomy is obviously more accessible than ever - with the takeover of doctor Google. But Dr Melissa said what might've been lost in this process is that sense of a personal relationship - the reliable hub you go to for help.