Category Archives: Women’s Health

Don Hazen, “Pornography and the End of Masculinity”

I was surprised to read the beginning of this review essay. Hazen writes: In his new book, Robert Jensen forces the reader to face the music about the effects of a porn industry gone gonzo, and the need to reassess … Continue reading

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Protecting Women Wasn’t Enough, But Now That There Is Evidence That Men Can Benefit Directly, Males May Begin Receiving HPV Vaccination

There is already evidence that HPV prevention would benefit gay men. The story posted here reports: The human papillomavirus (HPV) has been implicated as a cause of cervical cancer in women, but there’s another devastating form of cancer also linked … Continue reading

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“Bill Maher = Woman-Hating, Child-Hating Idiot”

You can read the post by this name here. Or you can read one entitled “Bill Maher is a Misogynistic Anti-Breastfeeding Pig” here.

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Women and Cardiac Disease

Women run a higher risk than men for having cardiac disease misdiagnosed or missed entirely.   Check out this site for tips on avoiding what could be a fatal lack of adequate medical care. -Ralph Michael Stein

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Suicide and the Pressure on Teenage Girls

From the AP, this story about suicide among  girls: The suicide rate among preteen and young teen girls spiked dramatically in a disturbing shift that federal health officials say they can’t fully explain. For all young people between ages 10 … Continue reading

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Depression on Campus: Who Has a Right to Know?

From an article in the LA Times entitled “Crisis on Campus,” this description of the tension between students’ privacy rights and what the author calls “families’ need to know”: [A suicidal student]  was referred to a school psychiatrist who agreed … Continue reading

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These Are Your Lungs on Cigarettes

Years ago the Partnership for a Drug Free America ran a memorable TV ad with the tag lines, “This is your brain. This is drugs. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?”   Critics decried the advertisement’s “scare tactics,” … Continue reading

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Dorian Solot and Marshall Miller, “I Love Female Orgasm”

Related webpage here. Review by Courtney at Feministing here.

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Vagina Pagina

It’s a LiveJournal Community where women talk about their bodies.

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Rape and Consent

Troubling essay about “gray rape” here. Eloquent and powerful feminist response here. And another one here.

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Gender’s Unnatural Disaster

The fallout from Hurricane Dean will be deeper and darker than anything we could learn from an action hero reporter gripped to a palm tree. A child playing outside right now as you read this post will drown sometime within … Continue reading

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Redefining “Peace” To Include Women

From Our Bodies Our Blog: Global Peace Index Fails to Account for Violence Against Women and Children: Describing the Global Peace Index, a ranking of countries according to their level of peacefulness published by the Economist Intelligence Unit, Riane Eisler, … Continue reading

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“A decline in women’s use of hormone therapy, not any drop in mammography-linked detection, is likely responsible for the recent U.S. drop in breast cancers, says new research.”

Yahoo News story here.

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There Is Nothing Rebellious Or Countercultural About Being “Pro-Porn”

From a NYT article entitled “Federal Effort on Web Obscenity Shows Few Results” we learn about a Justice Department grant to a conservative religious group called “Morality in Media” that pays people to review “sexual Web sites and other Internet … Continue reading

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Study Finds Obsesity Harder On Girls Than Boys

From Chron.com: Obese girls, often suffering from negative self-images as teenagers, are half as likely to attend college as girls who aren’t as overweight, according to a new study at the University of Texas. The same trend does not hold … Continue reading

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Justice Talking on Abstinence-Only Education

Listen here. Below is the overview: Federal and state funding programs provide local groups with millions of dollars for “abstinence-only-until-marriage” education programs that are hailed by some as the best way to keep teenagers from having sex and to stop … Continue reading

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Who’s Your Egg Donor? The British Government Wants the World to Know

From this article in the London Times: The birth certificates of children born from donated eggs and sperm would be marked with details of the way they were conceived, under proposals advanced yesterday [July 31, 2007]  by MPs and peers. … Continue reading

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No Glove, No Love: Where HPV Is Found

From the Seattle Post Intelligencer: Controversy continues to plague efforts to protect young women against cervical cancer by vaccinating them against HPV, the human papillomavirus, but one leading scientist’s discovery could throw a monkey wrench into the debate. “We found … Continue reading

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More on the Income Tax Deductibility of Sex-Change Operations

Professor Katherine Pratt of Loyola Law School – Los Angeles posted to the TaxProf listserv the following analysis of the income tax deductibility of sex change operations, previously blogged here.    She makes an argument for tax deductibility based on … Continue reading

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Welcome Back to Campus – Now Pay More for Contraception!

According to a Journal of Higher Education article (sorry, pay site), students returning to campus next month will have to pay a lot more for contraception from campus health centers.   The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 removed incentives for … Continue reading

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The Trojan War Pig

The New York Times  reports today on the controversy over the new TV ad campaign for Trojan condoms: In the commercial, women in a bar find themselves sitting next to pigs, one of which metamorphoses into a handsome suitor after … Continue reading

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Forced Electroshock as a Feminist Issue

Read Dr. Violet Socks’   account at Reclusive Leftist.

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“Knee replacements just for women”

The f-word has the rather confusing story here.

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SiCKO

Michael Moore did a fairly contentious interview on CNN about his new movie that can be viewed here.

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More on”Super Size Me and the Conundrum of Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Class for the Contemporary Law-Genre Documentary Filmmaker”

An anonymous  commentor responded to the post about Professor Regina Austin’s article,”Super Size Me and the Conundrum of of Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Class for the Contemporary Law-Genre Documentary Filmmaker:” Being black or any other race does not make it an … Continue reading

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Analytic Gap In U.S. Department of State’s Human Trafficking Report: Condoleeza Rice Doesn’t Seem To Care About Adults Forced Into Pornography

The DoS’s June 2007 “Trafficking In Persons” Report notes that trafficked women and children are victims of “commercial sexual exploitation,” reporting at page 10: Annually, according to U.S. Government-sponsored research completed in 2006, approximately 800,000 people are trafficked across national … Continue reading

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“Because I Am A Girl”

Eponymous website here. Project description here, which notes: Because I am a Girl: The State of the World’s Girls, is the first in a series of global reports on girls to be published over the next nine years by Plan. … Continue reading

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Condom advertising, pregnancy, and health

Any surprise that the Fox network doesn’t understand women’s health? Trojan, the condom company, has a new hip ad (no more”Beavis and Butthead”condom ads, more”Sex and the City”) that they’re shopping to network television. ABC, NBC, and nine cable networks … Continue reading

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Linda Christine Fentiman, “The New”Fetal Protection”: The Wrong Answer to the Crisis of Inadequate Health Care for Women and Children”

Here is the abstract: This article examines recent”fetal protection”efforts, which demonize, disenfranchise, and punish pregnant women. These actions erase the bright line of birth which has historically distinguished children from fetuses, and include criminal prosecutions of pregnant women, civil commitments … Continue reading

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“Desperate Iraqi Refugees Turn to Sex Trade in Syria”

The NYT reports: … Even in central Damascus, men freely talk of being approached by pimps trawling for customers outside juice shops and shawarma sandwich stalls, and of women walking up to passing men, an act unthinkable in Arab culture, … Continue reading

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“A Topeka man convicted of repeatedly raping and sodomizing a 14-year-old girl was sentenced to three years probation, rather than nearly 13 years in jail.”

I don’t have anything useful to add. Read more at the Sentencing Law and Policy Blog.

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How the New York Board of Correction Fails Women and Men

In a May 17, 2007 letter to the editor of the New York Law Journal, important New York prison reform leaders criticized NYC’s Board of Correction for abdicating its responsiblity of independent oversight of  city jails.   Without public comment, … Continue reading

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Courage.

Read this, and then this.

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“Bondage Webmaster” Likely Going To Jail

Graphic accounts of violence ahead. Here is an excerpt from the “fair and balanced” CNET News overview: … Glenn Marcus’ SlaveSpace.com relied on a novel business model: Finding sex slaves on the Internet, tying them up, whipping them and posting … Continue reading

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Katha Pollitt, “‘Democracy’ Is Hell”

Here is an excerpt from Katha Pollitt’s new essay at The Nation: … Women’s status was never as high under Saddam as opponents of the war sometimes asserted, and it was already declining throughout the 1990s, as Saddam embraced Islam … Continue reading

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Mother’s day complaint claims United States courts violate children’s and mothers’ human rights.

From the FLP mailbox: a StopFamilyViolence.org PRESS RELEASE On May 11, just before Mother’s Day weekend, ten mothers, one victimized child, now an adult, and leading national and state organizations filed a complaint against the United States with the Inter … Continue reading

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The Deleterious Effects of the Sexualization of Girls

Earlier this year, the American Pyschological Association’s Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls issued its finding that “the proliferation of sexualized images of girls and young women in advertising, merchandising, and media is harmful to girls’ self-image and healthy … Continue reading

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A Reminder That High Heels Mess Up Your Body

WaPo graphic here. Below is an excerpt from a related article entitled On Your Feet: … Among women’s shoes, fashion has truly trumped function. As the summer months approach, colorful sandals, flip-flops, wedges, high heels and ballet flats dot the … Continue reading

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National Parity Day

From an e-mail sent by “Wellstone Action”:   Today, as part of National Parity Day, David Wellstone is meeting with members of Congress to urge them to finally pass legislation that his father championed for over a decade, a bill … Continue reading

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“SSRI Stories”

This website hosts a long collection of links to mainstream media news articles about acts of violence that reference antidepressants in some way. Of course this does not establish causation between taking antidepressants and violence, but it still may be … Continue reading

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Harry Reid is a Huge Hypocrite

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was one of 64 U.S. Senators who voted for the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. Here is the entire list of Senators and their votes: YEAs —64 Alexander (R-TN) Allard (R-CO) Allen (R-VA) … Continue reading

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U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act

NYT story here. The decision was 5-4, and this is a situation in which the replacement of O’Connor with Alito probably made all the difference. Accord to the NYT: ”Today’s decision is alarming,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in dissent. … Continue reading

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U.S. lags in family benefits

From the Philadelphia Inquirer: True or False: The United States is one of only four countries in the world that does not provide some form of paid leave to new mothers? Believe it or not, the answer is true, with … Continue reading

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April Cherry, “The Detention, Confinement, and Incarceration of Pregnant Women for the Benefit of Fetal Health”

The abstract: This article examines both the state’s role in the detention, confinement, and incarceration of pregnant women for the purported benefit of fetal health, the constitutionality of these actions, and the rights the state endangers when it does act. … Continue reading

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New Study Finds “Abstinence Only” Sex Ed Programs Don’t Work

Via the Legal Momentum blog, A Celebration of Women’s Strength, a CNN article reports: Students who took part in sexual abstinence programs were just as likely to have sex as those who did not, according to a study ordered by … Continue reading

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Fawn Vrazo

If you are lucky enough to live in Philadelphia, you probably already know who Fawn Vrazo was. She “shared the heartaches and triumphs of her long struggle with breast cancer in a moving Inquirer series called ‘The Cancer Chronicles,’” and … Continue reading

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That Career-Killing Culture of Life

A record 4,901 pregnancy discrimination complaints were filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 2006. Medical News Today reports: The Baltimore Sun on Wednesday examined pregnancy discrimination in the workplace, which some federal officials say is not uncommon. … Continue reading

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“Wal-Mart changes corporate birth control policy: EC will be dispensed without discrimination or delay”

Per Planned Parenthood’s blog “Save Roe!”: Wal-Mart has signed onto Planned Parenthood’s pharmacy policy on emergency contraception (EC), also known as the “morning-after pill.” This means that Wal-Mart will provide EC in-store, without delay. Over the past few years, Wal-Mart … Continue reading

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Annals of Anti-LGBT Encounters

Paum Spaulding asked readers to describe memorable Anti-LGBT encounters both at Pam’s House Blend and at Pandagon. The comments her query elicited are educational as well as alarming.

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Sex Trafficking in Pakistan and in South Carolina

NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof writes today (behind the Times Select firewall) about sex slavery in Pakistan, observing that “…neo-slavery is the plight of millions of girls and young women (and smaller numbers of boys) around the world, particularly in Asia. … Continue reading

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