Menstruation

If Men Had Periods, Women Would Know All About It

Yashar Ali | Posted 02.01.2012 | Women

Read More: Women's Reproductive Rights, Periods, Oprah Winfrey, Menstruation, Menopause, Jim Thome, If Men Had Periods, Video, Women News

Why is our culture so intent on protecting men from hearing about or discussing a woman's reproductive health?

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Men Can Hear When You Have Your Period?

The Huffington Post | Emma Gray | Posted 01.27.2012 | Women

Read More: Menstrual Period, Menstruation, Menstruation Changes Voices, Women's Health, Female Voices and Fertility, Menstrual Cycle, Women's Voices Unattractive, Women's Voices and Menstruation, Female Menstrual Cycle, Female Fertility Cycle, Women News

You know those adorable cases they sell for carrying your tampons to the bathroom so you don't have to reveal to every man in the office or restaurant...

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Unnatural Women: Childless in America

Melanie Notkin | Posted 12.27.2011 | Women

Read More: Menstruation, Childlessness, Infertility, Australia, Childless, Aunt, Adulthood, Qualauntie Time, Motherhood, Fertility, Delayed Adulthood, Pronatalist, Auntie, Womanhood, Marriage, Unwomanly, Savvy Auntie, Mother, Femininty, Pronatal, Feminine, Women News

Childlessness is the state into which a girl is born. But once she reaches her mid thirties, that natural state is suddenly deemed unnatural.

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What Hollywood Calls Your Period

Zeynep Lokmanoglu | Posted 01.02.2012 | Women

Read More: Menstruation, Clueless, Romantic Comedies, Periods, Periods in Movies, Slideshow, Female Characters, Slidepollajax, First-Periods, Movies, Women News

Whether it is "on the rag," "that time of the month," or "the curse," it seems as if euphemisms have represented and misrepresented menstruation forev...

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Did Oprah Go To The Mikveh For Her New Show?

Rabbi Jason Miller | Posted 01.02.2012 | Religion

Read More: Hasidic Jews, Menstruation, Oprah Winfrey, Oprah, Mikveh, Judaism, Oprah Mikveh, Oprah's Next Chapter, Oprah Visist Mikveh, Jewish Ritual Bath, Oprah Jewish Ritual Bath, Religion News

What has Oprah Winfrey been doing since ending her long-running afternoon talk show? If your only news source was JTA.org, you might think that she has embraced Judaism on the level of Madonna.

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Bye, Bye Blue Liquid: Always Runs First Feminine Hygiene Ad To Show Blood

The Huffington Post | Laura Stampler | Posted 09.05.2011 | Women

Read More: Feminine Hygiene Commercial, Period, Menstruation, Women's Issues, Feminine Hygiene Ad Blood, Marketing to Women, Always, Taboo Marketing, Women News

If marketing campaigns have taught us anything about periods, it is that menstruating women love to dance, are drawn to white spandex and, oh yeah, bl...

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New Zealand Businessman Fired After Linking Women's Workplace Productivity To Menstruation

Posted 09.05.2011 | World

Read More: Employers and Manufacturers Association, Women's Rights, Menstruation, Human Rights, Alasdair Thompson, New Zealand, Sexism, Gender Roles, World News

The head of a major New Zealand employers' group has been fired after implying that women were paid less than men because they took more sick leave du...

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Strange Science: Menstruation Causes Prejudice?

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 08.29.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Fertility Behavior, Menstruation Behavior, Fertility Bias, Menstruation, Menstruation Prejudice, Menstruation Race, Fertility, Menstruation Bias, Fertility Prejudice, Healthy Living News

A new study suggests that depending on where they are in their menstrual cycles, women have very different reactions towards strange men. At their mos...

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Why a Woman's Sleep Is Different From a Man's

Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 08.13.2011 | Women

Read More: Women, Menstruation, Women's Health, Sleep Deprivation, Menopause, Sleep, Rem Sleep, Sleep Cycles, Women News

The issue of women and sleep has particular significance. Why? It's simple: women are the gatekeepers for all health information in their households. "Doctor Mom" is not just a cute term; it is a reality in most families.

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Why Girls Are Reaching Puberty Earlier Than Ever

Joel Fuhrman, M.D. | Posted 07.06.2011 | Home

Read More: Menstruation, Menarche, Parenting, Girls Early Puberty, Personal Health, Early Puberty, Home News

Overall our modern diet rich in processed foods, dairy, processed meats and fast food is disruptive to normal development and aging. Early puberty is an early sign of premature aging.

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Where Have All The o.b. Tampons Gone?

Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Read More: Ny Shopping, Periods, Period, Menstruation, Tampons, New York News, Women's Health, Tampon Applicators, Ny News, New York News

Many menstruating New York City women have been left in a lurch without their trusty o.b tampons. Since the fall, drugstores have had trouble sto...

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Genetically Modified Soy Diets Lead to Ovary and Uterus Changes in Rats

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Menstruation, GM Soybeans, Ovaries, Gm, Uterus, Gastrointestinal Problems, Hormone-Induced Changes, Reproductive Problems, Pelvic and Leg Pain, Fertility, Glyphosate, Soy, Reproductive Disorders, Ovulation, Genetically Modified, Disease, Roundup Herbicide, Chronic Fatigue, Birth Defects, Rats, Hormonal Imbalance, Endometrium, Abortion, Diet, Genetic Modification, Genetically Engineered, Vyvyan Howard, Andreas Carasco, Stanley Ewen, Genetic Engineering, Green News

http://www.responsibletechnology.org/blog/235 If you're still eating genetically modified (GM) soybeans and you plan on having kids, a Brazilian study...

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Brain Scans Reveal Hormones Effects On Women's Brains

AOL | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Chemistry, Pain, Women, Menstruation, Research, Health, Cramps, Men, Pms, Hormones, Brainm Brain Scan, Study, Corticotrophin, Period, Healthy Living News

New secrets of the female brain -- how it reacts to stress and monthly menstrual cramps -- have been revealed in two studies that harnessed brain scan...

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Victoria's Secret for Preteens

Elissa Stein | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Menstruation, Breasts, Puberty, Bras, Breast Cancer, Parenting, Healthy Living News

No, the bra emporium isn't launching a line for the under 10 set, but that reality might not be too far off. The onset of puberty is apparent in even younger girls than ever before.

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God vs. Women

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion

Read More: Fundamentalism, Islam, The Bible, Menstruation, Christianity, God, Women?S Rights, Judaism, Quiverfull Movement, Religion News

Some women and of course plenty of men subscribe to the nutty anti-woman religious view held by fundamentalists. You'd think women wouldn't go for this stuff or this "God." But that's not the case.

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PHOTOS: How To Green Your Period

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Green Living, Diy Green, Green Diy, Menstruation, Tampons, Trash, Dioxin, Vagina, Women, Environment, Period, Green Period, Slidepollajax, Sponge Tampon, Natracare, Seventh Generation, Organic Cotton Tampon, Menstrual Cups, Green News

Greening your period is a simple, eco-friendly and fun way to make an impact. In one lifetime, it is estimated that one woman can use as many as 16,80...

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Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation

Caroline Hagood | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Susan Kim, History, Menstruation, Advertising, Feminism, Social Commentary, Sexuality, Gender, Culture, Elissa Stein, Books News

Elissa Stein and Susan Kim's Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation, approaches its taboo topic with plenty of irreverent humor and refreshing bluntness.

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Make Her Vagina Green

Deanna Neil | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Women, Menstruation, Earth Day, Green, Dioxin, Green Living, Tampons, Environment, Trash, Vagina, Green News

The average maxi-pad or tampon is chlorine bleached, which releases toxins into the environment when made, and could also leaves residuals in your or your loved ones vagina.

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Eliminate Suffering From PMS In 5 Simple Steps

Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Menstruation, PMS Advice, Women's Health, PMS Help, Health, Mark Hyman MD, Pms, Premenstrual Syndrome, PMS Relief, PMS Tips, Video, Healthy Living News

If you are one of the many women that suffer from PMS, you can end your suffering using five simple dietary and lifestyle interventions. In today's blog I will explain how to do that.

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To Vajayjay or Not to Vajayjay

Elissa Stein | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Femcare, Education, Language, Menstruation, Vajayjay, Vagina, Advertising, Pop Culture, Vajazzle, Body Image, Women's Self-Esteem, Women's Self-Care, Media, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Healthy Living News

Advertisers shape cultural mindsets through carefully crafted campaign messages. When those messages are shrouded in euphemisms, does anyone know what it is we're really talking about?

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How to Advertise Down There

Susan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Susan Kim, Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation, Femcare, U by Kotex, Kotex, Menstruation, Fcc, Advertising, Media News

From the earliest days of commercial pads, one hundred-plus years ago, femcare advertising has been a virtual saga of prudishness, cluelessness, and excessive caution bordering on total hysteria.

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Sara Avant Stover | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Stress, Women's Health, Pms, Yoga, Menstruation, Health, Nutrition, Menopause, Healthy Living News

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Happy Birthday Pill!

Elissa Stein | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Environment, Big Pharma, Menstruation, Birth Control, The Pill, Lifestyle Drugs, Health, Healthy Living News

It's almost impossible to comprehend that less than 100 years ago sending information about birth control through the mail was considered not only illicit and obscene, but was illegal as per the Comstock Act of 1873.

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What's So Funny about the iPad?

Susan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

Read More: Steve Jobs, Twitter, Menstruation, Apple, Humor, Ipad, Technology News

"It's hard to see how something so simple, so thin and so light, could possibly be so capable." If you ask me, we've been sold that line about pads before. So is it any wonder we're laughing?

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Lifting a Third World Curse

Susan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Susan Kim, Menstruation, Charity, Sustainable Health Enterprises, Women's Rights, Proctor & Gamble, Museum of Menstuation, Africa, Flow the Cultural History of Menstruation, Nicholas Kristof, World Poverty, World News

One out of every ten school-age girls in sub-Sarahan Africa routinely skips school about 50 days a year. The reason why is so unbelievable it boggles the mind. It's because they're menstruating.

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