by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 30, 2009 | Celebrities, Menstruation
As if you needed one. Gossip played a sold-out show Saturday night at London’s HMV Forum. Her period started moments before the performance, and instead of fretting about how to conceal it, Beth Ditto asked her fans to go on ‘bleed watch’. She said:...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 29, 2009 | Internet, Meta
As anyone with a blog or website can tell you, the referrer logs are fascinating reading. When we started re:Cycling, I knew that people looking for menstrual porn would find us. (No, we don’t have any.) But I did not predict the interest in celebrities and...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 27, 2009 | Newspapers, PMS
Dear Amy: My girlfriend wants to “talk” again. She is currently experiencing her monthly cycle. Can I ask her to wait until this is over? She usually gets a bit worked up and later apologizes. I do not want to come across as inconsiderate. Based on past...
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...
