Sex to Cure Menstrual Cramps

Of all of the side effects that come with menstruation, cramps can be the hardest to ignore. Most women can fake their way through fatigue or food cravings, but it’s hard to disguise the anatomical equivalent to being punched in the gut. Luckily, there’s another way out: sex.
Menstrual cramps are caused by prostaglandins, a substance [...]

5 More Fun Facts About Menstruation

A few more things you didn’t know you didn’t know about your monthly euphemism:
1) By the time you enter puberty, you have between 300,000 and 500,000 eggs. Only between 400 and 500 will ripen into mature eggs during your life.
2) The Jewish custom of a mother slapping her daughter at the onset of her first [...]

5 Fun Facts about Menstruation

… And you didn’t even think there was one did you?

1) A 20-week-old female fetus has approximately 7 million eggs, but is down to 2 million by the time she is born.
2) Some native South American cultures thought that all mankind was created out of “moon blood.”
3) In 18th Century Europe, washing and changing underclothing [...]

What Women Want: Chocolate and Severe Abdominal Pain

Endometriosis is a term you might have heard mentioned before, but never knew anything about. But it’s a condition affecting 5% to 10% of women. This may seem like a small number at first, but name off ten women you know and consider for a second that statistically one of them already has it, and [...]