by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 10, 2009 | Advertising, FemCare, Internet
Obviously I’m spending waaay too much time on the interwebz these days. My elaborate system of RSS feeds, Twitter messages, email alerts, and random blog surfing just pointed me to a website called “Twirlit“, with the subtitle What Women Really Want....
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 9, 2009 | Birth Control, Pharmaceutical
Guest Post by Holly Grigg-Spall, freelance writer (“Sweetening the Pill“) The popularity of the birth control pill is an essential element of our cultural attitude towards menstruation, and women’s bodies as a whole. After taking the pill for ten...
by Chris Bobel | Nov 7, 2009 | Birth Control, Language, New Research, Ovulation, Reproduction
Guest Post by Moira Howes, Trent University Over thirty years ago, Roger V. Short argued that regular menstrual cycling is probably a health hazard and thus, we should try to “keep the ovaries and the female reproductive tract in a state of quiescence when...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 5, 2009 | Menopause, New Research, Pharmaceutical
Guest Post by Jerilynn Prior, Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research As a clinician scientist with expertise in hormones and women’s health, I sit in Canada and look at the hype and dis-sing going on about “bio-identicals” in the USA and shake my head. If...
by Giovanna Chesler | Nov 4, 2009 | Film, Independent Film, Men, Menstruation
I often hear women state that men would be uncomfortable if they overheard our discussion of menstruation. Many women work to keep men out of the menstruation conversation. But… surprise! Men are ready to participate. And very often, I hear men say that they...
