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 11, 2010 | Internet
What we’re reading this week – Fumbling in the Feminine Aisle: What to look for on menstrual product packaging to find the closest approximation to your U.S. brand when you’re in China. Gayle Sulik’s new book, Pink Ribbon Blues, is available....
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 8, 2010 | Anatomy, magazines, Media
Not being a subscriber to Cosmopolitan, I didn’t see the cover of the current issue until I was standing in the check-out line at my local Albertson’s on Tuesday evening. I didn’t want to contribute to Hearst’s profits by purchasing the issue...
by Laura Wershler | Sep 7, 2010 | Birth Control, Health Care, magazines, Media
It’s great to see celebrity sexpert Laura Berman, Ph. D. – frequent Oprah TV guest, Oprah radio host, and (according to her website) world renowned sex and relationship expert – talk truth about the effect of the birth control pill on women’s...
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...