- Live Green Mom used XtraNormal to make this awesome video explaining the benefits of Diva Cup.
- The ladies at Jezebel asked readers to submit “horrifying period stories”, and that’s pretty much what they got. I’m horrified at how badly people treat menstruating women and girls. It’s as if there were contest to see who could shame us the most.
- Artist Rebecca Morton draws inspiration from Fertility Awareness. [via GladRags]
- Earlier this month, the New York Times magazine featured an interview with Al Vernacchio, who teaches a sex education course at Friends’ Central School on Philadelphia’s Main Line that public sex education teachers in the U.S. only dream about. The course features frank, honest talk about sexuality, including
a couple of dozen up-close photographs of vulvas and penises. The photos, Vernacchio said, are intended to show his charges the broad range of what’s out there. “It’s really a process of desensitizing them to what real genitals look like so they’ll be less freaked out by their own and, one day, their partner’s,” he said. What’s interesting, he added, is that both the boys and girls receive the photographs of the penises rather placidly but often insist that the vulvas don’t look “normal.” “They have no point of reference for what a normal, healthy vulva looks like, even their own,” Vernacchio said.
- Understanding vaginal pH: Your vagina is a tomato. [via Lunapads]
