Weekend Links for Spring Break!
Did any of our readers happen to catch this talk at USC? No Need to Bleed: How Menstrual Suppression Redefined Menstruation A blog essay we recently cross-posted with Ms. magazine's blog about why it's valuable to use the word menstruator instead of women was picked...
Menstruation according to Apple
The repetition of all-things-pink=all-things-related-to-women’s-health has started to seriously irritate me. First, we had pink containers for birth control pills, followed by the pink repackaging of Prozac (renamed Sarafem) to treat “Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder”...
Herpes Is The New Black
Okay, the title of this post may have thrown you off, but hopefully it also lured you in so that you can hear me out. What’s the story here? Just that herpes is way more common than most people realize, and that you can get it from people who may or may not even know...
Saying Vagina, BC for Porn Stars, and More Weekend Links
httpv://youtu.be/F1ErLqBMtiE It's OK to say vagina in TV sitcoms, but you still can't say it in tampon ads! Like women who are pregnant, women who use synthetic progesterone birth control injections (such as Depo-Provera) are more vulnerable to certain infections...
Does it matter that hormonal contraceptives are endocrine disrupting chemicals?
I've been wading through State of the Science of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - 2012. The 289-page report was prepared by a group of experts for the United Nations Environmental Programme and World Health Organization. It is dense and complex, but what I've been...
Medicating the Postmenopausal Vagina
On February 26, 2013, the Food and Drug Administration issued a news release saying that it had approved a medication called Osphena to treat a problem called postmenopausal dyspareunia (pain during sexual intercourse associated with changes in the vagina after...
