There I was in the supermarket. It was an ordinary day, in an ordinary shop. Nothing sinister about the place apart from the peculiar choice of Duran Duran as background music. I weighed my apples, ground my coffee, selected my shampoo and reached for the tampons…and reached…and reached… Tampons on high shelves. TAMPONS ON HIGH ...
Thanks to Margo Hannah for letting us repost this great article! After years of inhabiting a female body, I believe I’m entitled to a partial opinion on how it operates. One thing I’d like to bring up is the hormonal excuse we drag out to exempt ourselves from owning erratic behaviour. As far as I’m ...
Now listen, there’s nothing nice about public restrooms. Nevermind the lovely scented one in that posh restaurant with a floating TV monitor behind the mirror trying to sell you shit while you gaze at your beautiful face in a haze of flattering light. I mean the nasty one you charge into at the European train ...
Dear Madame X, I started using a menstrual cup and I noticed that my blood is really, really dark and viscous, rather like molasses. Otherwise I’m completely fine. Because it’s the first month I’ve used it I have no idea if it’s always been like this, or if this indicates some sort of medical ...
Tampons. You use them, right? So do I. I try to keep a variety in stock, for emergencies. But occasionally I’m caught short and need to pop out for a box. And that, dear reader, is what a boyfriend is for. Here is a thing which has recently come to my attention. SOME MEN DON’T ...
Dear Madame X, My period makes me horny. I don’t know why but that is the time of the month that I most want to get down and dirty. My nights are filled with sexy dreams and at work I keep having naughty thoughts (sometimes ones that make me blush). Most men don’t mind so ...
We live in a world full of expectations. Women, for example, are expected to be the perfect images of beauty at all times. They are also expected to be crazy bitches whose periods are simply making them overreact. We laugh and joke about how “psycho” we get when we are menstruating and laugh about how ...
Women and girls in Somalia are earning a living and helping others access education through a sanitary pad project. Galkayo Education Centre for Peace and Development, an NGO funded by UNICEF, employs internally displaced women to manufacture the pads, which are distributed in IDP camps. This not only enables women to earn a living; girls ...
Thin women have a harder time conceiving than overweight women, according to a new study. A healthy woman has a one in two chance of having a baby, and an overweight woman has only slightly lower chances. Underweight women, however, only have a one in three chance. Being too skinny is bad for you. Why ...
Young people in England and Wales are patronized and poorly informed by sex education in schools. Negativity from adults toward teenage sex, along with a lack of basic knowledge about pregnancy and STIs, were flagged up by a recent study commissioned by sexual health and advice service Brook. Young people rely on friends for information, ...
The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
