by Elizabeth Kissling | May 24, 2010 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, FemCare, Menstruation
This ad for Lifestyle stretch fit menstrual pads is actually a sticker placed over the drain in sinks of public restrooms. There are no flowers, no gauzy white dresses or white spandex pants, and it demonstrates the key features of the product, such as adaptable fit...
by Elizabeth Kissling | May 21, 2010 | Internet
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...
by Elizabeth Kissling | May 21, 2010 | Birth Control, Books, Reproduction
Laura Eldridge’s new book In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women (Seven Stories Press, 2010) isn’t kidding with that subtitle. The last time I remember reading so much detail about contraceptive options was poring over Our Bodies,...
by Laura Wershler | May 20, 2010 | Birth Control, Communication, Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Philosophy
MenstruationResearch.org – Today, during an email exchange among the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research blogging team, research-advocacy experts on the menstrual cycle spoke out in response to the unbridled passion for the pill expressed by members of the...
by Chris Bobel | May 19, 2010 | Celebrities, Communication, Language, Menstruation, Television
Monday morning: A friend tips me off that Joan Rivers’s on-TV use of the word PERIOD was bleeped! Yes, dear reader, somewhere, a censor deems even the innocuous euphemism for MENSTRUATION unsuitable for television. Uh…speechless. [You can view the clip at...