by Chris Bobel | Apr 12, 2010 | Anatomy, New Research
Guest Post by Alexandra Jacoby “Controversy Rages Over Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery”. You can read the full article by Betsy Bates in Ob.Gyn. News. Bates interviews doctors as to whether performing these procedures meets a need or exploits a lack of body-knowledge...
by Chris Bobel | Mar 31, 2010 | Advertising, Menstruation, New Research, Pharmaceutical
Today, there’s a front page story in the New York Times about Astra-Zeneca’s move to market their cholesterol pills (known as statins, and as the NYT reports, already the most prescribed drugs in the US) at healthy people in spite of unresolved concerns...
by Chris Bobel | Mar 3, 2010 | Activism, Art, Menstruation
Tina Turner didn’t sing THOSE lyrics, but what if? Those that follow re:Cycling may recall-with a grin and a cringe–how Ingrid Berthon-Moine’s portraits of women wearing their menstrual blood as lipstick sent many Guardian and Salon Broadsheet...
by Chris Bobel | Feb 19, 2010 | Humor, Men, PMS, Television
If you watched the Super Bowl this year, you likely saw the new Dodge Charger ad “Man’s Last Stand.” If not, drop what you are doing and watch it right this minute and sound the gender panic alarm! There’s a crisis! Masculinity is endangered!...
by Chris Bobel | Feb 17, 2010 | Disposable menstrual products, FemCare, Girls, Menstruation, New Research, Reusable menstrual products
We at re: Cycling have been tracking the African-girls-miss-school-because-they-menstruate equation for a while now. Specifically, we’ve questioned the assumption that menstrual FLOW management is girls’ biggest menstrual problem (it is not, says at...
