Hysterical paroxysms
Slate has put together a very amusing slide show on the history of vibrators. For centuries, women were treated for “hysteria”, which, as it turns out, was just a glorified term for the expression of...
View ArticleThe eroticism of birth
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about pain and birth. Or actually, pleasure and birth. Kimberly Bobrow’s website is what first got the wheels turning. In addition to the article on the language of...
View ArticleContra-contraception
Better late than never: check out this article from the New York Times magazine last weekend, which featured a long, in-depth look at the growing anti-contraception movement in America. A few...
View ArticleHappy Valentine’s Day
One of the midwives at the clinical site where I am working has a sign on her locker that says: Support Midwives, Make Love. In that vein, here are eleven tips which were given to us by our guest...
View ArticleACNM Annual Meeting: Day Two
After signing off yesterday, I had some lunch then promptly attended three educational sessions in a row, two of which I paged. The first was entitled Cervical Ripening: What We Know and Why A Paradigm...
View ArticleFemale Genital Circumcision revisited
A few weeks ago, Dark Daughta over at One Tenacious Baby Mama asked me for a contribution to her new weekly series entitled Reloaded, which happens every Sunday and features old posts that are worth...
View ArticleNewsworthy 11/11/08
One week after our historic election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States, here’s a very interesting article on what his presidency might mean for Women’s Health (of the...
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The Great Wall of Vagina
Wow, I stumbled upon the work of UK artist Jamie McCartney, and was pretty much blown away. You have to visit his site ASAP: The Great Wall of Vagina. The 9 metre long polyptych consists of four...
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