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A Series of Fallopian Tubes

Knock, Knock. Who’s There? Tampon Delivery Service!

by Jill Pantozzi | 4:15 pm, March 7th, 2013

Well you can get just about everything else delivered to your door, why NOT tampons? 

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Eggs & Sperm Take On Cute Personalities In This Animation Helping You Understand Plan B

by Jill Pantozzi | 3:30 pm, December 4th, 2012

I’ll be honest, it’s been a while since I sat in a science class and my brain has refused to retain most of what I learned when I did. Though mostly, I don’t care how things like the pill or Plan B work, just that they do work. But in case you’re curious (or forgot), here’s a great animation from AsapSCIENCE showing you what goes down in your body.

(via The High Definite)

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1946 Walt Disney Menstruation Animation Tells Us We’re Ok Just The Way We Are

by Jill Pantozzi | 4:01 pm, November 17th, 2012

No, this video from 1946 isn’t perfect as far as feminism goes but I have to say, I’m surprised to find it so…not 1946? Though I guess I’m even more surprised Walt Disney Productions made a video about our periods at all. 

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Bloody Good Fun

Maxipad Company Crafts Brilliant Reply to Facebook Commenter Complaining About his Girlfriend’s Period

by Susana Polo | 5:48 pm, October 16th, 2012

A few weeks ago some dude made a post on the Facebook wall of a Maxipad company that went viral, about how their commercials had lied to him about what periods were really like. It’s an old joke, but a good one. He’d just found out that periods didn’t mean hang gliding, swimming in waterfalls and horseback riding but rather, he went on, that his girlfriend turned into something from the Excorcist because haha, ladies and their mood swings, amirite? Man, thank god we don’t have a lady president! So, less of a good joke in the end there.

Bodyform, the maxipad company, has come up with a video response that is almost the best thing ever.

(via Jezebel.)

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Famous Movie Titles… If They Were Educational Films on Getting Your Period

by Susana Polo | 11:24 am, September 27th, 2012

Comedians and internet video mavens Hannah Hart (My Drunk Kitchen) and Grace Helbig (Daily Grace) have rocked our worlds, and undoubtedly will continue to. You can see a few more here, including my favorite, educational public service film Lawrence, That’s A Labia.

Previously in Menstruating

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Tampons Save Your Day, Could They Save the Planet?

by Zoe Chevat | 4:17 pm, September 7th, 2012

Don’t worry if you were skimming in your e-reader and did a double-take. You read that one right. In a flurry of fact-finding this Friday, we came across this little gem of information, detailing how rejected or recalled tampon batches are shipped off and made into “fuel pellets”. (Also, I was unaware of stolen sub-par feminine products being sold on eBay, in a “tampon gray market”. The more you know!) The pellets are burned along with coal to “augment the fossil fuel’s power in furnaces”.

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Bloody Good Fun

Meet Arunachalam Muruganantham, India’s Tampon King

by Kellie Foxx-Gonzalez | 4:16 pm, June 29th, 2012

Meet Arunachalam Muruganantham, India’s “Tampon King.” He acquired this title by figuring out how to locally produce low-cost sanitary napkins that have the dual benefit of not only providing women with an affordable, hygienic management method for that time of the month, but also providing employment to many women. Click through to read more about his company and how he came to reign as the Tampon King!

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A Series of Fallopian Tubes

Uteri of the Internet Unite! Women Leave “Vagina Updates” on Virginia State Senator’s Facebook Page

by Jamie Frevele | 2:42 pm, March 14th, 2012

Good afternoon, Mary Sue readers! Meet Virginia State Senator Ryan McDougle! He is one of the state lawmakers who has come out to ardently support the state’s mandatory transvaginal ultrasound bill, almost as if he had no idea what was really entailed in women’s health decisions that are usually made by women. He is pictured above speaking with some of his constituents, and he invites other constituents to visit him on his Facebook page! Some of them have, and they have some questions that concern their vaginas, ovaries, and uteri they have felt compelled to share with him, what with his sudden interest in the reproductive goings-on of strangers! Want to come take a look? There are screenshots!

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Now There’s a Machine That Simulates Menstruation…Finally?

by Alanna Bennett | 11:13 am, July 29th, 2011

Guys, do you ever wish you could peek into the experience of a woman and try menstruation for a while? Girls, do you wish you could be on your period more often? No? That’s not a thing most people want? Well, art doesn’t really cater to the more practical side of things, so Japanese artist Sputniko! (punctuation included) designed this machine, now being featured in the Museum of Modern Art, that simulates the experience of menstruation.

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