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 19, 2009 | Communication, Girls, magazines
Guest Post by Therese Shechter, filmmaker (Trixie Films) Alert: Links are Not Safe for Work German teen magazine Bravo, known for it’s explicit information on sexuality and sexual health has done it again with their feature: Vulva-Galerie: Schau, welche...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 25, 2009 | Birth Control, magazines, Menstruation, Ovulation, Pharmaceutical
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...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 24, 2009 | Advertising, FemCare, magazines, Menstruation
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...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 2, 2009 | Advertising, FemCare, magazines
Just when you think femcare ads can’t get any sillier . . . the new Always “Infinity” pad promises to “pull its own disappearing act”. Hmm . . . don’t we want pads to STAY where we PUT them?! Oh, it’s the “fluid”...
by Chris Bobel | Oct 30, 2009 | Activism, Humor, magazines, Media, Menstruation
Them was fightin’ words. re:Cycling readers (thanks!) already know about Redbook‘s dimwitted “snub” of the soon-to-be released FLOW: The Cultural History of Menstruation: You welcome it, bemoan it, or just live with it. However you feel about...
