Art often brings our attention to things that we try to push from our minds. Such is the case with Brigitte Coreman’s Life Clock. The clock is set according to a woman’s age and first menstruation. Every 28 days, one ceramic bead will be counted on the necklace, each of which represents the 500 chances a woman ...
IVF, or in vitro fertilization, is all over the news these days, and there’s hardly a person who doesn’t know about assisted conception. But it wasn’t always this way. It used to be that infertile couple either had to adopt or just never have children. With up to ten percent of all couples being infertile, ...
Part of the problem of looking at statistics for STIs is that often higher numbers are related to better testing and reporting methods. But either way, having half a million cases of STIs in the UK is something that needs to be addressed. The Health Protection Agency (HPA) just released a report saying that this ...
The problem with biological clocks is that for all their tick-tick-ticking, you never know when they will go off. That dilemma is a thing of the past as doctors can now reveal when a women will become infertile, and when they will go through menopause. This discovery will change the world, just wait and see. ...
It looks like there is another reason to wear condoms! There’s a possibility that gonorrhoea is becoming resistant to medication, will be harder to treat, and may lead to a superbug.
Scientist have found out what it is that makes sperm swim faster when they get closer to the egg. This will be used to help further the search for a male contraceptive, something with a lot of obstacles to it, as well as helping men whose swimmers are too slow to cause a pregnancy. Apparently sperm don’t start ...
Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...
The British nation stood shocked this morning. No, it was nothing to do with us being back in recession...
Dear Madame X, I am in an interracial marriage. Things are fine most of the time, but members of...
There’s not much that hasn’t been said about Alexander Trocchi’s treatment of women, real and literary. I read Young...
Check out 200,000 years of of women’s hair and makeup!
My attention was brought this week to an article claiming that men exaggerate more than women. Nothing new in...
There I was in the supermarket. It was an ordinary day, in an ordinary shop. Nothing sinister about the...
Don’t tell anyone — but I turned 30 today! Last night, to celebrate the last day in my 20s,...
