Curb Your (Menstrual) Enthusiasm?
From time to time menstrual references show up in TV programs, mostly on situation comedies and, unsurprisingly, they are usually played for laughs. The most common inclusions have had to do with menarche with menopause coming in second. First periods have provided...
Weekend Links
Some extra weekend reading for the dog days of summer. You were looking for a reason to stay inside, right? Lesley Kinzel wrote fondly about L7's infamous tampon-tossing incident for xo. Blogger Kat at Tits and Sass reports on an actual Vagina Beauty Pageant. Another...
Her First Period Won’t Be Forgotten
This is funny, and in some ways, quite charming, sketch comedy about a dad talking his young daughter through her first period. The Frantics-Her First Period - watch more funny videos [via Glad Rags on Twitter ]
New versions of menstrual suppression drugs on the way?
Successful tests on rhesus monkeys are a long way from clinical trials on women, but this is interesting to those of us following the conversations and debates about cycle-stopping contraceptives: new research testing progestin antagonists indicates that the drug can...
Summer’s Eve Campaign Targets Wrong Body Part
If a product manufacturer or its advertising company, or both, cannot figure out which part of the female body their new line of feminine hygiene products can be used for, then both are in big trouble. There has been much hoopla over the recently launched Summer’s...
Weekend Links
Wired magazine has a piece about the return of the IUD, with illustrations of some of the older models. Excellent advice for cartoonists on how to draw women's breasts that look realistic. (Hint: there is no cleavage without a bra or something else pushing them...
