by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 16, 2010 | Advertising, Anatomy, Disposable menstrual products, FemCare, Girls, Menstruation
This week, Kotex is launching a new campaign “that aims to encourage women to talk candidly and without embarrassment about periods and vaginal care”. Research statistics from the brand indicate that “vaginally-aware women” are more likely to...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 15, 2010 | Activism, Advertising, FemCare, Men, Menstruation
Frequent re:Cycling contributor David Linton was profiled last week in The Online Rocket, the student newspaper of Slippery Rock University. Professor Linton gave a talk on campus about the role of men in advertising for menstrual...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 14, 2010 | Internet
We posted with a few warm-up entries last summer, but re:Cycling officially launched on September 15, 2009. So we’ve been period-blogging for six months! Here are some of our milestones: 178 entries (this one is #179) in 49 categories, with 230 tags Largest...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 13, 2010 | Internet
A few highlights from our reading this week: Because your vagina is never good enough as is: advertisements for tightening cream at Copyranter. Efforts to develop and distribute an improved female condom (funded by the MAC AIDS fund). Pubic hair: to shave or not to...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 11, 2010 | Anatomy, Dysmenorrhea, FemCare, Menarche, Menstruation, New Research
In a controlled study of 268 Australian women with surgically confirmed moderate-to-severe endometriosis (cases) and 244 women without endometriosis (controls), researchers found that characteristics of a woman’s early menstrual cycles were associated with later...
