Michalina Wisłocka

Michalina Anna Wisłocka
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Born	Michalina Anna Braun (1921-07-01)1 July 1921 Łódź, Poland
Died	Warsaw, Poland
Occupation	gynecologist, sexologist, author
Nationality	Polish
Notable works	Sztuka kochania (The Art of Loving)

Michalina Anna Wisłocka (née Braun; 1 July 1921 – 5 February 2005) was a Polish gynecologist, sexologist, and author of Sztuka kochania (The Art of Loving, 1976), the first guide to sexual life in Communist countries. Her book became a bestseller, with a total circulation of 7 million copies, and started greater openness about matters of sex and sex life in Poland.

She was a co-founder of the Society of Sensible Maternity, in which she worked on infertility treatment and birth control. She was chief of first in Poland Dispensary of Sensible Maternity in Institute of Mother and Child in Warsaw. During the 1970s, she was chief of Cytodiagnostic Laboratory of Family planning Society.

Wisłocka died in the Solski Hospital in Warsaw due to complications from a heart attack. On 11 February 2005, she was interred at the Evangelical Cemetery of the Augsburg Confession in Warsaw.