
Don't try this at home (no really, don't): beauty products for your lady parts
So when I walk into Sephora, I'm always amazed that an industry has been able to create a need for THAT MANY products to enhance/create "beauty". And then I read this hysterical (and satirical) post from Jezebel, written in Goop-esque style, about one "minimalist's" vaginal beauty routine While I'm not sure if any of the featured products in this article are real, there are plenty of actual beauty products for your "vagina" (usually used synonymously with vulva which is what

Amazing work from ProPublica continues - voices of women who nearly died due to pregnancy
As part of their ongoing investigation into the maternal health crisis in the US called "Lost Mothers", ProPublica posted a thought-provoking article "If you hemorrhage, don't clean up: Advice from Mothers Who Almost Died." They received stories from 3100 women after their initial article in this series was published. These stories further demonstrate the lack of priority we place on the health of women during and after childbirth. Highly recommended read for all women and th

Shocking Fact of the Day (SFOTD): harboring gonorrhea in your throat
Just when you thought it was safe to engage in "everything but" sex (pun intended) to maintain your virginity and please the abstinence-only crowd, the New York Times highlights the growing epidemic of oral gonorrhea. Oral gonorrhea (like many other STIs) often has no symptoms so people (men and women) can harbor gonorrhea in the throat without knowing it. The gonorrhea can then be passed to a partners' genitals during oral sex. The CDC recommends annual screening for gonorrh