Michalina Wisłocka was a Polish

Poles

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 gynecologist, sexologist, and author

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 of Sztuka kochania (The Art of Loving, 1976), the first guide to sexual life in Communist

Communism

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 countries. Her book became a bestseller

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, with a total circulation of 7 million copies, and started greater openness about matters of sex

Sexual intercourse

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 and sex life

Human sexual behavior

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 in Poland.

She was a co-founder of the Society of Sensible Maternity, in which she worked on infertility

Infertility

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 treatment and birth control

Birth control

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. She was chief of first in Poland Dispensary of Sensible Maternity in Institute of Mother and Child in Warsaw

Warsaw

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. During the 1970s

1970s

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, she was chief of Cytodiagnostic Laboratory of Family planning

Family planning

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 Society.

Wisłocka died in the Solski Hospital in Warsaw due to complications from a heart attack

Myocardial infarction

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. On February 11, 2005, she was interred at the Evangelical Cemetery of the Augsburg Confession in Warsaw

Evangelical Cemetery of the Augsburg Confession in Warsaw

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