The Latest Menstrual Technology Is Also the Oldest
In the ongoing femcare arms race, manufacturers compete to promote the latest technology in menstrual wear. We've seen LeakLock®, Four Walled Protection®, Built-in Backup® Skirt, Clean SorbTM Cover (I am not making this up, to borrow an old line from Dave Barry), and...
Will Kotex Break the Bank with “Break the Cycle” Campaign?
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 have a positive body...
“Prince Charles made me do it.”
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 products.
Highlights of Our First Six Months
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 category:...
Saturday Surfing: It’s linx-cellent!
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...
Bravery and Intellect Over Easy: Scrambled
(This post also published at the blog g6pix.) I’ll try not to sound too fan-girlish here as I write about the documentary Scrambled: A Journey through PCOS by Randi Cecchine, but admittedly, it is a difficult task. For in this film, which chronicles Cecchine’s...
