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Today Sponge Manufacturer Hates Jezebel Just As Much As Hilton Hotels Corp.

Anna — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:30:51 EDT

Synova Healthcare Group, which resurrected the Today Sponge after it was pulled from the market some 12 years ago, is embarking on a big push to market the contraceptive to young women, and it has some very specific ideas as to who will be using it! According to the NY Times, there are five archetypal women who "personify the different customers whom Synova seeks to attract":

The new advertisements feature four drawings of women who personify the different customers whom Synova seeks to attract: Maria, 22, who is health conscious and job hunting; Monique, a "30-something" career woman; Lilly, a 32-year-old doctor and new mother who is breast-feeding her child; and Jill, 40, a newly single store manager.

Uh, what about Sophia, the stay-at-home mom? Oh, she's "coming soon!" (Haha, 'coming soon'! Get it? Sigh.)

Anyway, the Times goes on to add that Synova's just-launched website also allows visitors create their own Today Sponge characters, so we visited the site this morning and tried to create our own archetype — 30 years old, single, loves sleeping and eating, and named 'Jezebel' — and we were denied. Apparently, Jezebel is not a 'Woman Of Today'! Was it the name? Or the fact that we owned up to, you know, actually eating?
Good News, Elaine: The Sponge Is Back, With A More Modern Approach [NY Times]
Women Of Today [TodaySponge]
Earlier: Jezebel Not Appropriate For Hilton Hotels; Porn Still OK

Jezebel Not Appropriate For Hilton Hotels; Porn Still OK

Anna — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:30:25 EDT

[Update: 'Jen' says she's staying at a Hilton in Chicago near the Navy Pier.]
Jezebel reader 'Jen' has written in with the following curiosity:

I'm at the Hilton for a conference and the computer won't let me access your site, saying that the word is in their blocked list. The hotel will let me access Gawker; it will let me look at a post linked to Jezebel, but it won't let me type in the URL jezebel.com. Awesome.

Awesome indeed! (We're waiting to hear back from Reader Jen as to exactly which Hilton Hotel she's currently bunking in). Has the Hilton hotel chain deemed Jezebel more morally-reprehensible than the porn films on offer in its hotel rooms? We heard that Gawker editor Doree is staying in a Hilton down south for her grandfather's 85th birthday so we asked her to check on the Jezebel URL (it works, but that's South Florida for you) and what sort of morally-reprehensible material is allowed in her room. Here's her report:

Debbie Does Dallas Again (marked with a "Critics Choice!")
Black Inside Me (categorized as "Interracial")
Older Women, Hotter Sex ("MILF)
Built For Comfort (category: "Full-Figured")
Natural Bush ("Unshaved")
I Just Laid Your Hot Mom ("Older Women")

and...

Expert Guide To Anal Sex ("Instructional")

Ah, we get it now: We need to stop writing about period sex and focus on anal instead. Or maybe we just need to pay off Mitt Romney?

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