by Elizabeth Kissling | May 17, 2010 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products
Apparently Max le Tampax is all stressed out about heading off to the Tampon Academy, where he’ll learn all about freshness and vaginal awareness and how to be empowerful to women. Something like that, anyway. I don’t speak French, so I’d welcome a...
by Elizabeth Kissling | May 15, 2010 | Internet
Blogger RMJ (Deeply Problematic) wrote a series on disability and birth control: Part One. Part Two. Part Three. Feministing reports on clinical trials of a new hormone-free birth control method – for men. Via Ms. magazine’s blog, we learn that vulvodynia,...
by Elizabeth Kissling | May 14, 2010 | Advertising, Birth Control, Humor, Pharmaceutical
…might look something like this parody by Jena Friedman: [via Salon.com’s...
by Elizabeth Kissling | May 13, 2010 | Language, magazines, Menstruation
From now on, I’m going to refer to periods as “monthly Balkan dance parties”, just because Philebrity magazine told me not to. Seriously, that’s at least as good as “Communists in the fun house” and “rebooting the ovarian...
by Elizabeth Kissling | May 13, 2010 | Anatomy, magazines, Menopause, New Research
Guest Post by Jerilynn Prior, M.D., Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research Yes! I’m sure you can hear my whoop of excitement and vindication. Finally, something negative about estrogen and positive about progesterone in the mainstream media. According to...
