by Laura Wershler | Jan 10, 2014 | Birth Control, Coming off the pill, Fertility, Menstruation, Ovulation
A month ago I was musing about what it might be like to blog about fun stuff like food, fashion or travel – you know, topics not quite so “fraught” as the menstrual cycle. Sometimes it feels like just so much work sharing facts and opinions about why body...
by Laura Wershler | Nov 13, 2013 | Activism, Birth Control, Coming off the pill, Hormones, Menstruation, Radio
Questioning and quitting the pill are current hot topics, fueled in no small part by Holly Grigg-Spall’s recently released Sweetening the Pill Or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control. Her book has drawn ample backlash, brilliantly addressed by re:Cycling...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 3, 2012 | Birth Control, Coming off the pill, Health Care, New Research
The pill is one of the most intensely studied drugs in history, and believed to be among the safest – safer than aspirin, as an editorial in the American Journal of Public Health noted twenty years ago. Yet young women seem to be quitting in droves, for a variety of...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 12, 2012 | Birth Control, Health Care, magazines, Pharmaceutical
Guest Post by Holly Grigg-Spall “Less stressed, thinner and more interested in sex.” – but not buying magazines. In a recent issue of the UK’s Stylist magazine — a weekly women’s glossy that is available for free at tube stations...