by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 11, 2012 | Internet
Does your menstrual blood attract BEARS?!? You’ve been reading the web site for years — now the book is finally available! Purchase your own copy of Vagina Vérité here. It’s a book of close-up, documentary vulva photographs — so we can see...
by Laura Wershler | Feb 8, 2012 | Advertising, Communication, Health Care, magazines, Menopause, Television
The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada has inaccurately branded menopause as a killer of women. I will not be sending them a donation. Last October, the foundation launched a fundraising campaign called Make Death Wait. Magazine and TV ads personify death as a man...
by Paula Derry | Feb 6, 2012 | Menopause, Menstruation, Reproduction
The philosopher of science Mary Midgley (1995) doesn’t mince words. She tells us: “The theory of evolution is not just an inert piece of theoretical science. It is, and cannot help being, also a powerful folk-tale about human origins.” Along these lines, stories...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 4, 2012 | Internet
A gay man explains his admittedly limited understanding of vaginas: “I don’t remember learning much of anything during health class in junior high. Maybe I missed the day they taught everything about the ol’ chowderhouse (that’s my nickname for the vagina, which...
by Heather Dillaway | Feb 2, 2012 | Celebrities, Internet, Media, Menstruation, Music
It was Etta, Christina, Los Angeles. Was that menstrual blood or a melting spray-on tan running down Christina Aguilera’s legs during her performance at Etta James’ memorial service last Saturday? The verdict is still out. Regardless, word on the internet is that...
