- Making a Hot Mess out of “Feminist” TV | where is your line? – My experience in the hot seat of Hot Mess reminded me – like a slap in the face- a few basic media principles. As a filmmaker and producer, respect your subjects. They are not objects or props to be used or humiliated. Honor them. And as a subject and author of your life, remember – your story is your story. It is sacred, precious and individually yours. Find and maintain your boundaries about how and with whom you share your story. Call the shots and don’t forget you’re in control.
- Federal Judge In Boston Rules Gay Marriage Ban Unconstitutional – The federal law banning gay marriage is unconstitutional because it interferes with the right of a state to define the institution and therefore denies married gay couples some federal benefits, a federal judge ruled Thursday in Boston.
- Sex and Infertility – How infertility makes sex more difficult | Cory Silverberg – The impact of infertility (real or suspected) on your sex life can be enormous. Sex that is timed and filled with anxiety about the outcome quickly becomes mechanical and forced. What was once an intense expression of love, desire, and commitment can feel like an obligation, an expectation — and practically coercive.
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- Of Death and the Gender Binary | Cory Silverberg – What they found, after interviewing 38 men, aged 24-50, was that their experience of masculinity at times increased their risk and at other times reduced it. Sometimes, ideals of strength and being a "family man" resulted in men being less likely to think of suicide. Other times men's perceptions of themselves as needing to be alone, capable of solving all problems on their own (which again, they link to traditional gender roles), increased their social isolation which in turn increased their risk. In other words, these men told stories that revealed the relationship between gender and suicide to be complicated.
- Cervical cancer test approved for the women who need it most | Society | guardian.co.uk – But a piece of good news is the approval by the European Union (in the form of a health and safety CE "kite mark") of a test which the designers say will be easy to use in hot countries with no running water or electricity. It detects the DNA of the cancer-causing virus within a matter of hours, which means a woman who may have walked miles to a clinic can wait for her result and possibly treatment. It is made by Netherlands-based QIAGEN, which offers a more complex HPV test in the wealthy countries.
- Sex Ed for seniors? Annals of IM: ‘Men who use ED drugs have higher rates of STDs, particularly HIV’ – The authors of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among Users of Erectile Dysfunction Drugs: Analysis of Claims Data (Annals of Internal Medicine, July 6, 2010, vol. 153 no. 1 1-7) studied a database of private, employer-based insurance claims from 1997 to 2006 for 1,410,806 men older than age 40 and found that users of erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs had higher rates of sexually transmitted disease infection, particularly HIV, than non-users.
- Fertilty, Infertility and The Make Up Counter! | The Fertility Advocate – Many of us use all kinds of lotions, cremes and expose ourselves to countless concoctions every day which contain an incredible of synthetic chemicals. We do this often without a thought about how these chemicals could be adversely affecting our overall health and our fertility.
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. . .The problem is, an awful lot of what’s out there about fertility and reproduction is pulp fiction. The blurring of fact, opinion, myth and misunderstanding makes for a treacherous misinformation landscape. The knowledge gap has claimed millions of victims, people who learned about the fundamentals of protecting and preserving fertility too late to help them have genetically linked offspring they always assumed would be theirs. Armed with essential and accurate information, you don’t have to join their ranks.
What is still not understood across the board is the time line of the biological clock. And most of us don’t have a clue about our own.
So the big question is – what do you know about your fertility?
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