August 2011
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The IUD Love Goes On and On...
In an excellent piece for Slate, “Free to Be IUD,” (which you should totally read) Amanda Marcotte suggests that “…with cost no longer a barrier, the IUD may reach a tipping point at which most women find that they have at least one friend who is using it. When that finally happens, women will be far likelier to consider it for themselves.” Here’s hoping...
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Pill Problems, Real and Imagined
Worth a read: “Baby Fat: Do birth control pills make women gain weight?” One particular point of interest in Christie Aschwanden’s Slate post is the “nocebo” effect—where people experience a side effect because they are expecting to, not because their medication caused a physical reaction.
Our providers have addressed the weight gain question and several other nasty...
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In Review: Bi the Way--Is Bisexuality Bigger Than...
Originally published on SexReally.com on August 3, 2011.
I recently stumbled upon this film in my Netflix queue. Released in 2008 by two young women filmmakers, Brittany Blockman and Josephine Decker, Bi the Way chronicles the lives of youth in the Midwest (ages 11-28) who identify as bisexual. Older generations in the film express confusion and disbelief at the concept of bisexuality,...
