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With her motto, “Sexual health is health,” Dr. Sally Greenwald aims to optimize orgasms for the women of Silicon Valley.
Sally Greenwald likes to say that she is the happiest gynecologist in America. She is certainly sought after, having attracted a following of high-powered Silicon Valley women of a certain age with her motto, “Sexual health is health.” Recently, Greenwald was the guest of honor at a small luncheon hosted by one of her patients, the tech entrepreneur and philanthropist Gisel Kordestani, in Atherton, California, one of the wealthiest towns in the country. The event took place in the stately, pillared home Kordestani shares with her husband, Omid, the former chairman of Twitter.
Kordestani, who has long, light-brown hair and was wearing platform Prada sneakers, apologized that her co-host, a fellow Greenwald patient named Nicole Lacob, who runs the philanthropic foundation of the Golden State Warriors (her husband, Joe, is the majority owner), wasn’t able to come at the last minute. She had flown to Paris to attend the début runway show of Matthieu Blazy, the new designer for Chanel.
The other women in the room murmured in understanding. Ranging in age from late thirties to mid-fifties, they were accomplished, confident—the kind of women for whom “Fake it till you make it” had long ago morphed into “Make it better and better.” When I moved to Silicon Valley from New York, fifteen years ago, I was astonished by the widespread conviction that everything—even one’s body, aging and mortality notwithstanding—must and will improve, like each new iteration of iPhone.
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