by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 13, 2010 | Internet
Here are some recommended reads from around the web this week. Girls’ world – new campaign in Kenya provides re-usable cloth pads to keep in girls in school. Doc Gurley, creator of the absolutely brilliant Lost Tampon video, answers follow-up questions...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 12, 2010 | Anatomy, Internet, Objects
Andy Kurovets, the designer who brought us those lovely maxi-pad shelves is displaying a new item: The G-spot computer mouse. When you find the secret spot, the computer automatically goes to your favorite thing online, whether it’s your email application or...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 11, 2010 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, Men, Menstruation
It’s not news that menstrual products are marketed with claims of how well they conceal menstruation. But usually from whom must it be concealed is implied, rather than made explicit. Not so in this new campaign for Whisper in southeast Asia. (Whisper maxi pads...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 10, 2010 | Celebrities, Communication, Internet, Men, Menstruation, Newspapers, Television
Guest Post by David Linton, Marymount Manhattan College Four years ago I published an article in Sex Roles (March 2006) about the twists and turns of the media coverage of a scandal that came to be known as “Camillagate.” It concerned the publication of a...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 9, 2010 | Activism, Anatomy, Art, Sex
If you’ve been with us for a while, you may recall that last fall our friend and colleague Alexandra Jacoby participated in Vulvagraphics: An Intervention in Honor of Female Genital Diversity, sponsored by the New View Campaign challenging the medicalization of...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 9, 2010 | Advertising, Birth Control, Law/Legal, Pharmaceutical
Guest Post from Evil Slutopia There are Tupperware parties, Passion Parties, Pampered Chef parties, and…Mirena IUD parties? Yes, apparently these events popped up early last year and were a joint effort from Bayer Pharmaceuticals and the mom marketing site Mom...
