In case you missed these stories this week:

• Tasha Fierce takes on the whole concept of ‘feminine hygiene’: That Not-So-Fresh Feeling.
• Copyranter looks at the next ad in the Kitadol campaign. (See the previous ad for this PMS treatment here.)
• Proctor & Gamble’s “Protecting Futures” campaign is contrasted with Deanna Duke’s Pads4Girls campaign in this story from 2008.
• A Chicago crisis pregnancy center is trying to discourage young women from having abortions by telling them they’re likely to miscarry anyway. A recent Congressional investigation found that 87% of CPCs nationwide provide misleading information to their patients.
• Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) is looking for social media and system development interns.

• Heather Corinna on sexuality and disability.
• Strange ads for menstrual products. [via Glad Rags]
• If you’re on Twitter, you absolutely MUST follow FeministHulk.
• One in five American men between the ages of 18 and 29 believe having sex standing up prevents conception – WTF?!?
  

Your weekly links:

• Heather Corinna answers the question, what is feminist sex education?
• By all accounts, the Rethinking Virginity Conference held Monday at Harvard was outstanding. Here’s ten myths of sex and virginity that were de-bunked at the conference.
• In this short video, Planned Parenthood explains how health care reform in the U.S. will benefit women, and work that is still needed.
• New research suggests that hormone therapy after menopause increases more than just the risk of breast cancer: it can also increase the likelihood of the cancer metastasizing.
• This vanity plate is not on my car:

Originally posted at Jalopnik (part of the Gawker network) , where they speculate that it’s intended to mean “Monster V8″.

In case you missed these stories of the week:

• At Scarleteen, Emira Mears dismisses eight myths about cloth menstrual pads.
• Excellent essay by Holly Grigg-Spall about the Pill and medicalization of women’s bodies. When is someone gonna give that woman a book contract?
• Bayer has raised the price of their Mirena IUD. Perhaps because it’s now been approved as a treatment for heavy menstrual bleeding?
• Virginia at Beauty Schooled deftly explains why, contrary to the New York Times‘ proclamation, “Two hairy quasi-celebrities does not a trend make.”
• And you’ve already seen a tsunami of articles about how the ladies are responsible for natural disasters, am I right? If it’s not immodestly dressed young women, it’s Mother Nature’s menopause. Reactions have morphed into a cleavage show on Facebook, but I’ll let my favorite spinster aunt have the last word on “Boobquake”.

We posted with a few warm-up entries last summer, but re:Cycling officially launched on September 15, 2009. So we’ve been period-blogging for six months! Here are some of our milestones:

• 178 entries (this one is #179) in 49 categories, with 230 tags
• Largest category: menstruation
• 409 comments
• Most popular tag: breast cancer narrowly edged out vulva about a week ago
• Most downloaded image: Image of mammogram showing healthy and cancerous breasts side-by-side from this post (Dakota Fanning’s fake period on a movie set is a close second)
• Most commented post: Holly Grigg-Spall’s guest post, Are We Addicted to the Pill?, with 19 responses (Heather Dillaway’s guest post, It’s Official: At Least One SNL Writer Fears and Disrespects Women’s Bodies, was a close second with 18 responses)
• Top Five Countries our visitors are from, in order: U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, India
• Most people visiting re:Cycling at the same time: 9
• Number of spam comments caught in our filter for comment spam: 1309, with more every day
• Best publicity: Featured at Women’s eNews, November 2009. We also really like the brief post about us at BitchBuzz, October 5, 2009.
• Number of Twitter followers: 91

And this weekend we added a Facebook page.