by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 22, 2010 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, FemCare, magazines, Media
Poor Mother Nature. Defeated again. In saying “Paper wins”, do you think this ad is intended to criticize cloth pads and menstrual cups? Magazine ad for Tampax Pearl, October...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 16, 2010 | Advertising, Anatomy, Girls
Via Virginia at Beauty Schooled, who is celebrating her graduation from Beauty U by republishing selected posts, I found this August 24 article about the trend of spas offering hair removal services to increasingly younger clients – starting at age 8. Wanda...
by David Linton | Sep 14, 2010 | Advertising, Internet, Media, Menstruation, Pharmaceutical, Television
The challenge that advertisers face when promoting the sale of menstrual products is how to visually demonstrate how the product works or the aspects of the cycle that product addresses without showing actual menstrual blood or a woman’s anatomy. One well established...
by Heather Dillaway | Sep 13, 2010 | Activism, Advertising, Menopause
September is Menopause Awareness Month. If you do a web search on “Menopause Awareness Month,” the first things that pop up are about hormone therapies, pain, cramps, eye floaters, and other terrible symptoms that should probably be commemorated this month….or maybe...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 5, 2010 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, FemCare, Internet, Media, Menstruation
Guest Post by Chella Quint, Adventures in Menstruating So Johnson & Johnson’s Canadian division’s just launched a new Stayfree campaign that I found out about when a Toronto reporter contacted me for an article she was writing. The campain is a series of viral...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 31, 2010 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, Humor, Internet, Media
Via Tracy Clark-Flory at Broadsheet, I learned of this new internet campaign from Stayfree. At last, my girlish fantasies realized! I have always dreamed of a man who would have dinner almost ready when I got home, and then mansplain the intricacies of feminine...
