Menstruation

The dirty girl The dirty girl

Controversial "Wetlands" author Charlotte Roche talks about bodily functions, shaving pubic hair, and why there are so few euphemisms for female masturbation.
  • First blood: Introducing "menstrual activism"

    Do we really need a radical movement to combat the stigma of periods?
  • The great girl gross-out

    Female writers are getting more graphic than ever about the messy realities of their bodies. Is it too much information, or enlightened honesty?
  • Female trouble

    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.
  • The end of menstruation

    The drug Lybrel promises to free women from their monthly curse. But today it's a sales pitch that seems hopelessly outdated.
  • There will be blood

    What's scarier than a fleet of zombies? Dakota Fanning's time of the month.
  • Maxi pads to the rescue!

    Harvard Business School grad to help Rwandan women and girls get monthly coverage they need.
  • Quote of the Day

    Margaret Cho on Britney Spears: "Let she who is without period stains throw the first tampon."
  • Men on eHarmony seem obsessed with women who are "clean"

    Doesn't everybody shower? Sixty percent of the men I meet on eHarmony say, "I can't stand someone who is not clean."
  • No more periods, period

    Warn your ovaries -- the Food and Drug Administration is poised to approve Lybrel.
  • No more periods, period.

    Will contraceptives do away with menstruation?
  • Attack of the "seething sapphic septet"

    The New York Post covers the "killer lesbians" who stabbed a man in the stomach.
  • Too much information. Period

    India's female civil servants are required to reveal details of their menstrual cycles.
  • To bleed, or not to bleed?

    With period-ending Lybrel on the way, that is the question.
  • Should women get paid menstruation leave?

    And do we need a doctor's note?
  • Danger: Women menstruating

    Would workplaces benefit from office menstruation calendars?
  • Disappearing periods

    No more PMS! No more bloating! Drug companies are exploring new methods to ban Aunt Flow from ever coming to town.
  • God to Margaret: Always with wings!

    In updated editions of Judy Blume's classic, Margaret's famous pink belt is replaced with self-adhesive pads. But something has been lost.
  • Are you there, God? Can you put off my period?

    Hormonal implants may help delay early-onset puberty.
  • Conversations with my tampon

    Do women really need uplifting messages from their menstrual products?
  • My hormones and my husband

    When I am in the throes of PMS everything I have never quite liked about him gathers an inch south of my belly button.
  • Going with the flow

    For menstrual mogul Vinnie D'Angelo, it's always that time of the month.
  • Freudian fear and cooked statistics

    The recent media alert about sex-crazed "tweens" is mostly a lot of hoo-ha with naught behind it.
  • Historically significant tampons

    The Museum of Menstruation sustains the flow of knowledge in a little-known field.
  • Ma Bell's ill communication

    The Dallas Observer exposes telecommunications madness; rumors of carcinogenic tampons may be greatly exaggerated.
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