A Pain Reliever for Every Symptom
A friend just pointed me to Excedrin's web page for Excedrin® Menstrual Complete, with "a unique triple ingredient combination that relieves 5 of your major symptoms — bloating, cramps, muscle aches, headache, and fatigue." You know, for "[w]hen your period feels like...
Another reason to love Beth Ditto
As if you needed one. Gossip played a sold-out show Saturday night at London's HMV Forum. Her period started moments before the performance, and instead of fretting about how to conceal it, Beth Ditto asked her fans to go on 'bleed watch'. She said: "I started my...
Lost and Found: Search terms at re:Cycling
As anyone with a blog or website can tell you, the referrer logs are fascinating reading. When we started re:Cycling, I knew that people looking for menstrual porn would find us. (No, we don't have any.) But I did not predict the interest in celebrities and their...
Please Advise: Matt’s girlfriend doesn’t know she has PMS
Dear Amy: My girlfriend wants to "talk" again. She is currently experiencing her monthly cycle. Can I ask her to wait until this is over? She usually gets a bit worked up and later apologizes. I do not want to come across as inconsiderate. Based on past discussions,...
Use of Birth Control Pill Declining in Canada
re:Cycling readers may be interested in this story in the current issue of Macleans about the declining interest in oral contraceptives among Canadian women, particularly among women in their 20s who've been using The Pill for a decade. [O]ral contraceptive...
Pads STILL as big as your head!
Looks like our friends at Always Infinity have ditched the skinny model,* but everything else in the ad is the same, right down to the copy about a disappearing act and the close-up shot of magic blue fluid. That pad still looks disproportionately large to me: its...
