- Bitch Media has a period mixtape for you – “28 minutes of vag-tastic music”.
- Menstrual cycle apps were everywhere this week, even the New York Times. At Be Prepared Period, Jennifer Aldoretta offers the Top Five Reasons to Track Your Cycle. Nicole Jardim, Redefining Women’s Health blogger, reviews several cycle-tracking apps at her site.
- A study published in a fall (October 13, 2013) issue of Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, the journal of the Scandinavian Association of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, found that menstruators who experience primary dysmenorrhea experience diminished quality of life.
- Check out this Rookie magazine interview with Seattle band, Taco Cat, and listen to their jangly pop song, Crimson Wave, about you-know-what. Extra points for using the euphemism “communists in the summer house” in the last verse!
- Writer S.E. Smith asks a seemingly obvious question: we know douches serve no beneficial purpose, so why are they still filling up aisles in supermarkets and discount stores?
- Ashley, fertility educator at Lovely Fertility, shares this video of cervical fluid from a recent fertility awareness class.
- Please let Lindy West have the last word on pubic hair stylings: Pube out, fools.