Saturday Surfing: Linkworthy recommendations
Heather Corinna on sexuality and disability. Strange ads for menstrual products. [via Glad Rags] If you're on Twitter, you absolutely MUST follow FeministHulk. One in five American men between the ages of 18 and 29 believe having sex standing up prevents conception -...
Book Review: In Our Control
Laura Eldridge’s new book In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women (Seven Stories Press, 2010) isn’t kidding with that subtitle. The last time I remember reading so much detail about contraceptive options was poring over Our Bodies,...
SMCR Bloggers Respond to ACOG’s Homage to the Pill
MenstruationResearch.org - Today, during an email exchange among the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research blogging team, research-advocacy experts on the menstrual cycle spoke out in response to the unbridled passion for the pill expressed by members of the American...
Really? Even “Period” is Bleep-worthy?
Monday morning: A friend tips me off that Joan Rivers's on-TV use of the word PERIOD was bleeped! Yes, dear reader, somewhere, a censor deems even the innocuous euphemism for MENSTRUATION unsuitable for television. Uh...speechless. [You can view the clip at...
Ultrasound Man:Birth Control Superhero
You know how most superheros become superheros because of exposure to some weird, intensified chemical or element? Take Peter Parker's spider bite for example. According to a story reported in various media, including International Planned Parenthood Federation's...
Introducing . . . Max le Tampax
Apparently Max le Tampax is all stressed out about heading off to the Tampon Academy, where he'll learn all about freshness and vaginal awareness and how to be empowerful to women. Something like that, anyway. I don't speak French, so I'd welcome a translation of this...
