India has done away with a ridiculous 12 percent tax on sanitary pads, which activists say will hopefully result in more girls getting to go to school instead of being forced to stay home due to lack of access to feminine hygiene products.
Fitbit has launched it’s new “female health tracking” feature, which allows users to log their menstrual cycles. “Starting this month, Fitbit users who have identified themselves as female in their profile will receive a notification that female health tracking is available, and they can opt-in,” reports the Verge.…
Ladies, do you have a secret fear a bear will track and attack you when you’re menstruating in the wild?
Ibuprofen is a time-tested remedy for many a period-haver’s cramps and headaches, but are you, the consumer, more likely to reach for an Advil when it’s been rebranded to specifically target those suffering from menstrual pain?
You would have been forgiven for thinking that the crowd lining up outside a warehouse venue in Chelsea Thursday night was there for a mass wedding: everyone was dressed in white, radiantly young, and full of hope. The line wrapped around the block. A young woman in a white dress, heels, and a tan baseball cap that…
Although it is the Year Of Our Lord 2016, we become bizarrely Victorian when it comes to discussing menstruation in public contexts. But when Chinese swimmer Fu Yuanhui addressed her performance in the 4 x 100 medley relay, she spoke with frankness about its impact.
The concept behind Thinx underwear, as I understand it, is simple: they’re absorbent and you can bleed right into them. It’s like a very sexy, menstruation-oriented set of Depends. That shouldn’t be a recipe for success, but they seem to be doing fine, in large part because the public relations and branding around…
As a man without a functioning uterus (I believe this is the second time I’ve begun a post on Jezebel.com with those words), I couldn’t possibly begin to imagine what the monthly process of menstruation does to one’s psyche. Though my fundamental understanding of the messier physical aspects makes it easy to…
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, women are increasingly choosing IUDs and hormonal implants instead of the traditional pill. Over the last decade, IUDs and implant use have risen five times. There are, of course, a number of reasons women are choosing implants and IUDs over traditional…
I have never had a period. Not by choice, mind you, but because I am a man without a uterus who doesn’t menstruate. I know the fundamentals—the top-level biological functions, the commonly-used products meant to contain the flow—but not much more. When friends and coworkers discuss the details of their periods, I have…
Clue, a new app designed by Ida Tin, wants to help women remove the stigma of how women talk about and perceive their periods. According to research from the app and the International Women’s Health Coalition, a large majority of women still use euphemisms to describe their menstrual cycle. “Aunt Flo” and the Clueless…
In an article about the lack of research around painful periods, Quartz spoke to an expert who compares the worst of them to a heart attack and says doctors are failing to actively treat the condition.
A group of male officials voted Wednesday to keep the good times flowin’ with their state tampon tax. Proving that tampons are indeed a luxury item only understood by the women who pay for them, the all-male panel voted 8-3 against a proposal by Representative Susan Duckworth.
Pop quiz! Where do tampons and pads go?
Thinx and New York City’s MTA have found common ground in their week-long public fight over period panty advertisements on the subway.
Earlier this week, the “period-proof” panties company Thinx and New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority seemed to be at odds over the use of the word “period” in some new subway ads. Now the MTA has retreated a bit—the flailing corporation just takes forever to make decisions.
New York City has rules for their subway ads, which can’t look too racy. And a set of new ads by Thinx, a company peddling knickers for women who’d like the option of forgoing pads and tampons during menstruation, have proven to be just too much for NYC’s (inconsistently) prim sensibilities.
If you’re interested in tracking the color and volume of your menstrual flow, then cool, this product may be for you.
In the ever-wonderful discussion of menstrual politics—shaming vs. celebrating, managing vs. letting it all hang out—bowing out altogether from the period experience often gets short shrift. It shouldn’t, as not having your period at all is an increasingly viable option. But as periods become optional, their symbolic…
Sure, you may brag to the girls in the locker room that you’ve synced cycles with your super swell best friend. But until we see you Donald Ducking it together on the couch, tethered by the string of a dual tampon, we remain suspicious of your so-called “friends forever” status.
