by Laura Wershler | Aug 22, 2012 | Birth Control, Fertility, Menstruation, Ovulation, Pregnancy, Reproduction
Your fertility is not a deep, dark mystery only your doctor can unravel. It’s yours to own, understand and manage. Forget the ticking biological clock, it’s the wrong metaphor. Fertility ebbs and flows, like the phases of the moon. It’s about the...
by David Linton | Aug 14, 2012 | Advertising, Menstruation, PMS
Saniya Ghanoui and David Linton How peculiar are the sexual politics of Cosmopolitan magazine?!?! We previously noted the editorial avoidance of menstrual sex, but let’s take a look at their most recent ride on the menstrual cycle. On one hand, Cosmo aspires to...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 8, 2012 | Hormones, Pharmaceutical
Let me say up front that I have limited direct experience with adoption. Some members of my extended family have adopted children, another has given up an infant for adoption, and I have friends who have adopted children, and other friends who are adopted. It was one...
by David Linton | Aug 6, 2012 | Books, Humor, Media, Menopause
Hallmark greeting cards and related trinkets have long exemplified wholesome, up-tempo, Norman Rockwell-styled sentimentality, often packaged in clichéd verses and trite images of puppies, kittens, flowers, babies, sunsets and other references guaranteed to elicit a...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 4, 2012 | Internet
Hello, femcare companies? THIS is how you make a tampon ad! Another study in Appetite reports that chocolate cravings are unlikely to be induced by the menstrual cycle. (We reported on a previous study about PMS and chocolate cravings in Appetite three years ago.)...
