by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 15, 2012 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, Humor, Menstruation
Today, in vintage femcare advertising, we bring you Tampax’s idea of menstrual shaming, 1990s style: But Tampax doesn’t understand menstruation as well as they think they do. Sure, it might be a little tiresome to have a Mariachi band follow you...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 13, 2012 | Menstruation
Guest Post by Holly Grigg-Spall On February 10th, the Washington Post published an op-ed piece by Rachel Maddow. In this she outlines how there are Republicans who don’t want birth control covered by insurance, they don’t want Planned Parenthood receiving...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 11, 2012 | Internet
Does your menstrual blood attract BEARS?!? You’ve been reading the web site for years — now the book is finally available! Purchase your own copy of Vagina Vérité here. It’s a book of close-up, documentary vulva photographs — so we can see...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 4, 2012 | Internet
A gay man explains his admittedly limited understanding of vaginas: “I don’t remember learning much of anything during health class in junior high. Maybe I missed the day they taught everything about the ol’ chowderhouse (that’s my nickname for the vagina, which...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 28, 2012 | Internet
The State of My Union is the State of My Uterus: Those cramps you feel are the government tightening its grip on your uterus. More creative baking: an IUD cookie. Our friend Virginia Sole-Smith writes poignantly and eloquently about how living with chronic health...
