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	<title>Society for Menstrual Cycle Research &#187; tampons</title>
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		<title>New &#8220;Brilliant&#8221; tampons</title>
		<link>http://menstruationresearch.org/2010/08/20/new-brilliant-tampons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Kissling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ladies, are your tampons doing enough? Apparently absorbing menstrual fluid without leaking is no longer sufficient: new, Brilliant pH tampons &#8220;are clinically shown to reduce the usual feminine pH increase that  occurs during your period.&#8221;
But let Dr. Streicher explain in this commercial for Brilliant pH tampons.  
 
Video should open in new window.
Of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing . . . Max le Tampax</title>
		<link>http://menstruationresearch.org/2010/05/17/introducing-max-le-tampax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 22:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Kissling</dc:creator>
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Apparently Max le Tampax is all stressed out about heading off to the Tampon Academy,  where he&#8217;ll learn all about freshness and vaginal awareness and how to be empowerful to women.

Something like that, anyway. I don&#8217;t speak French, so I&#8217;d welcome a translation of this ad for a new Tampax product introduced in France.
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		<title>Colored Tampons: For Whites Only?</title>
		<link>http://menstruationresearch.org/2010/05/05/colored-tampons-for-whites-only/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 13:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Kissling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Post by Nicole Luna, Marymount Manhattan College
Elizabeth Kissling’s March 16 post on the launch of the U by Kotex campaign and the comments that followed touched on the implications of the “new” Kotex products and their accompanying empowerment crusade.  Comments ranged from how the new tampon applicators resemble glow sticks to how, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do vaginal rings and tampons have in common?</title>
		<link>http://menstruationresearch.org/2010/04/22/what-do-vaginal-rings-and-tampons-have-in-common/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 01:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Kissling</dc:creator>
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So here&#8217;s an odd little study: when women are given a choice between oral contraceptives and the contraceptive vaginal ring, what characteristic is most highly correlated with a slightly greater interest in using the vaginal ring? If you said &#8220;tampon use&#8221;, you&#8217;re right!
Among contraceptive vaginal ring and OCP users, 247 (79%) reported  using tampons. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;d Rather Hold Your Bike than Your Tampons</title>
		<link>http://menstruationresearch.org/2010/04/19/id-rather-hold-your-bike-than-your-tampons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Kissling</dc:creator>
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Is it wrong that I like this ad because it makes men look foolish for fearing tampons? It&#8217;s not that I mean to endorse mocking men as a class, it&#8217;s just that unlike the Kotex &#8220;Ridiculous&#8221; ad, this new ad frames something other than menstruation as this lady&#8217;s biggest problem.
      [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kotex Anti-Ads, Round Two</title>
		<link>http://menstruationresearch.org/2010/03/21/kotex-anti-ads-round-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Kissling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last week, I thought I had participated in enough discussions of Kotex&#8217;s new &#8220;Break the Cycle&#8221; campaign; we had a lengthy discussion here at re:Cycling, and I&#8217;ve joined in the comments at several other ladyblogs, as have my co-bloggers. But then I discovered there are more videos!
Don&#8217;t expect to see any of these [...]]]></description>
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