by Heather Dillaway | Jun 21, 2012 | Communication, Girls, Language, Men, Menarche, Menstruation, Philosophy
How do you tell a preschool-aged boy that he’ll never menstruate? I thought I was doing a great thing. Ever since my daughter was born I’ve spun a positive story about menstruation for her. Even when she was 2 and 3 years old I’d tell her it was the “good blood,” the...
by Kati Bicknell | Jun 20, 2012 | Fertility, Menstruation
I’m obsessed with fertility charting, and in my search for a Fertility Awareness app that met my needs, my husband and I created one. The most important thing to us are our users, and their feedback is gold. We learned the hard way that women want to chart on their...
by David Linton | Jun 19, 2012 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, FemCare, Menstruation, Sex
Some months ago we published a piece titled “Menstrual Sex: the Last Taboo in Advertising?” It was an analysis of a magazine ad for Softcups, a disposable menstrual collection cup, and it generated some interesting feedback. Some reader took exception to...
by Chris Bobel | Jun 11, 2012 | Humor, Men, Menstruation, Pharmaceutical
At the 2007 conference of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, a presenter cited the famous satirical essay by Gloria Steinem, If Men Could Menstruate, as inspiration for “flipping the image” to raise awareness about an issue. Remembering this...
by Alexandra Jacoby | Jun 8, 2012 | Art, Menstruation
THIS ONE is my favorite image among the “THERE WILL BE BLOOD” series of photographs by Emma Arvida Bystrom. It’s of a young woman, in a skirt, reading at a counter that faces a window; you can see blood staining her panties through the glass, and she’s...
by Heather Dillaway | May 24, 2012 | Communication, Health Care, Hormones, Language, Menopause, Menstruation, New Research
An article on Medscape News on May 7th reported survey results that suggest that “fewer than one third of women with menopause symptoms are receiving treatment for those symptoms.” The article goes on to report that about half of women aged 45 to 60 report...
