Open to Interpretation
[via my friend Khalil]
Help Trixie Films Go All the Way
All the way to $10,000, that is. Work on the new production from Trixie Films, How to Lose Your Virginity, is nearly complete. This film promises to be an innovative exploration of the American obsession with virginity and an outstanding classroom teaching tool: It's...
Teens Using the Rhythm Method? It’s Time for Body Literacy
Teen sex: More use rhythm method for birth control. It was an odd headline for an Associated Press story on the 86 page report on teen sexual activity just released by the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. Not all that relevant to the broader subject of the...
Is Mother Nature Winning?
Is it just me, or is Tampax's "Outsmart Mother Nature" campaign wearing a little thin? These two ads, from the June, 2010, edition of a ladymag, seem lackluster. Visually, they're just not easy to read. Serena burns a hole into Mother Nature's monthly gift? She...
Saturday Surfing
In case you missed these stories this week: Tasha Fierce takes on the whole concept of 'feminine hygiene': That Not-So-Fresh Feeling. Copyranter looks at the next ad in the Kitadol campaign. (See the previous ad for this PMS treatment here.) Proctor & Gamble's...
Having a Vagina Makes You Brave
But only when you're clean and fresh "down there". Apparently women's natural, in-born courage is best nurtured with scented moist towelettes. I can't decide what's more offensive - the content of this ad, or the fact that someone got paid to write it. [via...
