by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 16, 2012 | Internet
Anthropologist Beverly Strassmann’s research on the role of menstrual huts in the Dogon religion suggests that the practice of menstrual isolation may have developed as means to assure paternity — or as the popular press has been covering the story, to...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 13, 2012 | Disposable menstrual products, DIY, Men
Last week at The Art of Manliness, a contributor wrote a post about numerous possible wilderness survival uses of tampons. The post was picked up by the popular site, Boing Boing, and the commenters in both sites added more uses, as well uses for disposable maxi pads...
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 Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 9, 2012 | Internet
Margie Profet is well known among membership of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, and lots of other folks, too: her controversial 1993 article in the Quarterly Review of Biology proposed an adaptive value of menstruation that attracted a lot of popular press...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 6, 2012 | Anatomy, Birth Control, Ovulation, Television
Guest Post by Lisa Leger Yesterday (June 4) on MSNBC-TV, my girl Rachel Maddow interviewed New York Times columnist Gail Collins, author of the new book, As Texas Goes. The book criticizes the state’s politics and morality laws and their impact on the rest of the...
