Posts Tagged ‘sexual health’

This is cross-posted from Akimbo, the International Women’s Health Coalition blog, where I’ve been blogging (and videoing) up a storm. Here in the United States, female condoms have kind of gotten a bad rap: They are not readily available in many places. They cost up to $4 each. They squeak. They look like plastic bags. [...]

I set out to write a proper write-up of CineKink, during which I had the New York premiere of Dacia’s Love Machine and my friend Jennifer Lyon Bell’s film Matinee won the prize for Best Narrative Short. But in my head I keep coming back to thinking about the feature I saw the first night [...]

I just launched a brand new blog, Akimbo, for the International Women’s Health Coalition – I’m really excited about this project. Here’s what I wrote about it in the first post on the site: Welcome to the very first post of Akimbo, the brand new blog brought you by the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC). [...]

This is a post of mine that originally appeared at Our Bodies, Our Blog. This post is something of a preview of the kinds of stuff I’ll be writing about on the soon-to-launch International Women’s Health Coalition blog. In the pre-blog time, I’ve been posting images from our travels on our Flickr photostream, plus there’s [...]

Today is the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court case that made abortion legal in the United States. NARAL Pro-Choice America has got a Blog for Choice thing going on, and it isn’t too late to sign up and participate. This post is a part of Blog for Choice. It seems like [...]

There’s a new study that’s just been released that is reporting the above fact: 43% of American women have some kind of sexual dysfunction (SD). Here’s a snippet of an article about the study: In addition to asking the women standardized questions about their sexual health, the researchers used a Female Sexual Distress Scale to [...]