by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 8, 2010 | Advertising, Birth Control
SMCR and re:Cycling‘s own Chris Hitchcock is featured in a menstrual suppression for-and-against article at MSN today. Chris explains why using hormonal contraceptives to stop periods is generally bad idea, except in very limited medical circumstances. Leslie...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 6, 2010 | Advertising, FemCare, Pornography
Are you worried your labia just aren’t pornified enough? You’ve mowed the lawn and used expensive cleansers, but your labia just aren’t as pink as they used to be. Here’s a new labia dye, to restore that youthful pink to your pink parts....
by Laura Wershler | Dec 22, 2009 | Activism, Advertising, Birth Control, Girls, Health Care, Language, magazines, Menstruation, Pharmaceutical
In a December 21, 2009 news release the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) proclaimed that “hormonal contraceptives offer benefits beyond pregnancy prevention“. You’d have to be an ostrich with her head in the sand not to have...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 18, 2009 | Activism, Advertising, DIY, FemCare, Menstruation
*(I really did type “cosmetetical”. Readers under the age of 40 and/or outside the U.S. can find the origin of the term here.) Guest Post by David Linton, Marymount Manhattan College Here’s where exploitation and menstrual activism crash into each other. ...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 13, 2009 | Advertising, Law/Legal, Media, Menopause
There’s a pretty good essay in this weekend’s New York Times (online here Saturday, in print Sunday in the Business section) about how hard Big Pharma has worked to market menopause as an estrogen deficiency disease. In addition to discussion of...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 3, 2009 | Advertising, FemCare, Menstruation
It’s common knowledge that international corporations use different slogans and sometimes different product names to sell the same items in different countries. Procter & Gamble’s femcare products provide many good illustrations of this; as we noted...
