Archive for 'pregnancy'
Newsflash: Ignorance is Not Bliss! (Abstinence and Why It Sucks)
The BBC reported in August that abstinence-only sex education programs are not working in the United States. Shockingly, studies found that avoiding education about sex does not reduce risks of teen pregnancy or slow the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. It turns out that sex is so good that even pretending it doesn’t exist does [...]
Posted: April 29th, 2008 under abstinence, abstinence-only, educate, education, pregnancy, pregnant, premarital sex, sex, sex ed, sex education, sex positive, sex positivity, sex research, sexual activity, sexual attraction, sexuality, sexually transmitted infections.
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Midwifery: Keeping Ya' Mama From Getting Cut For 5 Million Years
Don’t get me wrong. I love electronic culture. It gives me access to everyone else who has access to it, which is a lot of people. But it’s not everyone. And because of the necessarily exclusive nature of it, what gets lost is the full community experience. This is, for many, a digital age, and [...]
Posted: March 21st, 2008 under Female Sexuality, adaptiveness, anthropology, assisted birth, barack, biological anthropology, bipedalism, birth, birthing, brain, culture, digital, electronic, eminence, environment, episiotomy, evolution, evolutionary, female, fetal skull, isolation, labor, mammal, maternal, medical anthropology, midwife, midwifery, modernity, obama, pelvis, pregnancy, primate, sexuality, skull, surgery, tribe, vaginal cutting.
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Empathy Belly: Great with Child?
I found this article on broadsheet about Empathy. Catherine Price writes “Here’s something that sounds like a joke, but isn’t: the Empathy Belly. “It’s a pregnancy simulator designed to “enable men, women, teenage boys and girls to experience over 20 symptoms and effects of pregnancy.” (The Empathy Belly is not to be confused with the [...]
Posted: September 4th, 2007 under biology, birth, boy, control, data, empathy, empathy belly, equality, free will, gender, girl, human nature, humans, insensitivity, partner, placebo, pregnancy, psychology, sainthood, sex, simulator, socialization, teenage.
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We're Not Taking This Sitting Down: The Standing Committee on the Status of Women
Okay, okay, I’m not Canadian, and at this rate, I probably won’t be. But Canada is at a commendable stage of self-examination right now: a stage that the U.S. is actually still in. Oh, okay, you’re saying, Marinara over there is hitting the sauce a little too hard for a Sunday morning in Buenos Aires. [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 under Adisa Banjoko, Canada, Civil Rights, Congress, Equal Rights Amendment, Yasmin Ratansi, amendment, black, canadian MP, consititution, cultural criticism, english, equal pay, french, gender culture, gender equality, heterosexual, hip hop, law, legislation, love, muslim, pay, pregnancy, race, sex discrimination, sexism, sexual harassment, unequal, violence, violence against women, women's rights.
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Hospitality: Coffee, Tea, or Me?
Flying makes a lot of people nervous. One of the strategies that airlines employ to help people relax is to objectify women all around them. This is still practiced at Hooters Air. According to Wikipedia, “In the 1960s and 1970s, many airlines began advertising the attractiveness and friendliness of their stewardesses. “National Airlines began a [...]
Posted: June 29th, 2007 under Female Sexuality, Pornography, Self Objectification, airline, beauty, binge drinking, bird flu, cabin crew, casual sex, corporate objectification, culture of fear, danger, discrimination, drug culture, fashion, fear, flight attendant, gender, gender role, hooters, marriage, objectification, pedophiles, pensions, plane, pregnancy, profession, sex, sexism, sexuality, standard of beauty, stereotypes, stewardess, stripping, terrorism, truancy, uniform, uniforms, union.
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On Bleeding for Seven Days Without Dying(Or Prince Charles)
As a little girl, I eagerly anticipated getting my period. But not as much as Prince Charles does. Dave Barry once wrote that “When Prince Charles speaks, everybody pretends to be fascinated, even though he has never said anything interesting except in that intercepted telephone conversation wherein he expressed the desire to be a feminine [...]
Posted: June 8th, 2007 under Anya, Aunt Flo, Dave Barry, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, HPV, Lybrel, Lysol, Mr. Burns, Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo, Prince Charles, big business, birth control, bleach, bodies, cancer, cervix, chemical, corporate greed, dioxin, estrogen, feminine hygiene product, human papilloma virus, menstrual cup, menstrual period, menstrual sponge, menstruation, pad, period, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, pregnancy, safety, sex, sex education, sexual inequality, sexual pleasure, sexual responsibility, tampon, testosterone, the pill, women's health.
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