Controversial "Wetlands" author Charlotte Roche talks about bodily functions, shaving pubic hair, and why there are so few euphemisms for female masturbation.
By Nina Power Apr 4, 2009
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Do we really need a radical movement to combat the stigma of periods?
By Amanda Fortini
October 6, 2009
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Female writers are getting more graphic than ever about the messy realities of their bodies. Is it too much information, or enlightened honesty?
By Rebecca Traister
February 5, 2009
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You won't hear about them on "Lipstick Jungle," but uterine fibroids plague a surprising number of women, especially those waiting to have children until later in life.
By Rebecca Traister
February 27, 2008
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The drug Lybrel promises to free women from their monthly curse. But today it's a sales pitch that seems hopelessly outdated.
By Tracy Clark-Flory
February 4, 2008
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What's scarier than a fleet of zombies? Dakota Fanning's time of the month.
By Mary Elizabeth Williams
June 23, 2009
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Harvard Business School grad to help Rwandan women and girls get monthly coverage they need.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
March 31, 2009
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Margaret Cho on Britney Spears: "Let she who is without period stains throw the first tampon."
By Carol Lloyd
January 25, 2008
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Doesn't everybody shower? Sixty percent of the men I meet on eHarmony say, "I can't stand someone who is not clean."
By Cary Tennis
September 26, 2007
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Warn your ovaries -- the Food and Drug Administration is poised to approve Lybrel.
By Catherine Price
May 22, 2007
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Will contraceptives do away with menstruation?
By Tracy Clark-Flory
April 20, 2007
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The New York Post covers the "killer lesbians" who stabbed a man in the stomach.
By Carol Lloyd
April 13, 2007
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India's female civil servants are required to reveal details of their menstrual cycles.
By Lynn Harris
April 11, 2007
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With period-ending Lybrel on the way, that is the question.
By Carol Lloyd
October 19, 2006
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And do we need a doctor's note?
By Catherine Price
October 11, 2006
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Would workplaces benefit from office menstruation calendars?
By Page Rockwell
September 11, 2006
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No more PMS! No more bloating! Drug companies are exploring new methods to ban Aunt Flow from ever coming to town.
By Sarah Elizabeth Richards
May 22, 2006
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In updated editions of Judy Blume's classic, Margaret's famous pink belt is replaced with self-adhesive pads. But something has been lost.
By Rebecca Traister
March 2, 2006
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Hormonal implants may help delay early-onset puberty.
By Lynn Harris
December 30, 2005
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Do women really need uplifting messages from their menstrual products?
By Hannah Miller
September 1, 2004
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When I am in the throes of PMS everything I have never quite liked about him gathers an inch south of my belly button.
By Sheri Cooper
September 25, 2002
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For menstrual mogul Vinnie D'Angelo, it's always that time of the month.
By Libby Ellis
December 20, 2001
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The recent media alert about sex-crazed "tweens" is mostly a lot of hoo-ha with naught behind it.
By Karen Houppert
October 22, 1999
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The Museum of Menstruation sustains the flow of knowledge in a little-known field.
By Mary Roach
September 10, 1999
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The Dallas Observer exposes telecommunications madness; rumors of carcinogenic tampons may be greatly exaggerated.
By Jenn Shreve
May 21, 1999
The dirty girl
First blood: Introducing "menstrual activism"
The great girl gross-out 
Female trouble
The end of menstruation
Men on eHarmony seem obsessed with women who are "clean"
God to Margaret: Always with wings!
Conversations with my tampon
My hormones and my husband
Going with the flow
Glenn Greenwald
War Room