Creative Lubrication

I don’t generally think that anything Lady Gaga says, sings or does is worth repeating. Admittedly, her reputation was doomed the minute I met an obnoxious girl dressed as her on Halloween wearing nothing but balloons and stilettos. But this past summer she (the singer, not the look-a-like) announced her fears to Vanity Fair of her precious creative juices escaping through her vagina during sex. Lady Gaga finally won my attention.

When I first read the quote in the National Post, “I have this weird thing that if I sleep with someone they’re going to take my creativity from me through my vagina”, I found the statement over dramatic and painfully righteous. This says a lot considering the fact that I flaunt both behaviours daily. However, I soon found myself pondering if this statement might possibly be something more profound.

In a literary sense, we have all heard and accepted that creative inspiration “flows” and “juices”...but have you stopped to think about where these “creative juices are flowing” from and why creativity is so commonly conceptualized in liquid form? Perhaps likening these “juices” to sexual bodily fluids is not an absurd concept. After all, I believe we cultivate both sexual and creative energy in much the same way: by yearning for connection, expression and the opportunity to reveal a deeper part of yourself to others; by a desire to relish in the moment and stand still in time; or by demanding a release or escape from emotions that have overcome you.

So regardless if you are standing before a naked body or a naked canvas, maybe the bottom line is…what really turns you on?

And...can these urges (sexual and artistic) both thrive in chorus with one another or is Guru Lady Gaga onto something here…does one ebb in order for the other to flow?

I have always considered myself a creative spirit and wouldn’t say from experience that sex has diminished that will. But I could argue (for the purpose of this discussion) that physical relations, no matter how whimsical, provide an outlet for expression and energy that art otherwise might.

I’ve only ever experienced situational “abstinence” from sex once in my life. Partially imposed by physical separation from a distant lover, and largely imposed by the restraints of Ashram living. For six months I basically avoided intimate experiences of that nature completely. Never before had I felt that level of sexual repression and frustration. What emerged was a deeply subconscious, bizarre imagination that could not be reckoned with. That period in my life was defined by a string of impressionable and vivid dreams; drawings on my furniture, my walls, my notebooks and myself; and free flowing guitar tunes and thoughts that my hand repeatedly failed to catch up to.

My creative juices had nowhere else to go, but to flow out of my hands and my mouth effortlessly and continuously like a deep exhale.

But even after my abstinence retreat, I am no Lady Gaga.

I guess sex keeps getting in the way.

Christmas Crafts and Holiday Humour

So, stealing from other people's blogs is a dirty habit to get into, but when I saw this little knitted womb something inside me just yelled "miiine!". Not only do I want to own one , I want to make one (many!) and I want for other people to own them. I want to post pictures and a link to instructions and I want to pretend for just a minute what it would be like to be the person who had this idea, first! Wow.

So...with all this enthusiasm, the best I can do is commemorate their ingenious by referencing this crafty idea on my site for many more to see.

If any of you ladies can knit...(my crocheting skills aren't womb-able, unfortunately)...I hope someone decides to take on this pattern. You can find it (and more amazing pictures of said cuddly womb) here: http://knitty.com/ISSUEwinter04/PATTwomb.html

And for those that are better with sewing needles than knitting ones, why not try a grown-up puppet?

Apparently these come in handy for those in the childbirth education world...a nice prop to enhance your teaching...but given the high price and apparent demand, they must have a wealth of other uses....not all of which I'm sure I can come up with yet...but that doesn't say I wouldn't be thrilled to have one of these silky gems in my stocking! Should you want some artistic inspiration or to purchase these critters, check out www.yoni.com/vulvas/holidayvulvas.html. Note: if you want some more affordable options, follow the links for "Wondrous Vulva" and "Mini" Puppets....haha...I love how I'm writing as if anyone else would be as serious about this as I am. Come 'on...any midwifery students out there wanting to get your profs an end-of-term gift?

Film Review || Pregnant in America: A Nation's Miscarriage

Steve Buonagurio both gains and loses points for being a Michael Moore want to be. He sheds spotlights on what he wants you to see and shadows what he doesn't, but this extreme bias makes his point, and I think it's a good one. A point good enough to make medical system devotees cringe and resent being made to think critically of the things we feel most comfortable not knowing. Be warned this film is not without it's fair share of exaggerations, sappy moments and rookie film moves (an interview with an anesthesiologist wearing scrubs on a congested street corner barely audible due to the moving cars and howling winds comes to mind), it is an entertaining and passionate portrayal of the difficult choices facing pregnant women today. Featuring natural birth specialists Ina May Gaskin and Barbara Harper (RN), and interviews with a full spread of professionals from the medical community (OB/GYN, MDs, nurses, Doulas etc), this is a worthwhile and thought provoking film for anyone who works or wishes to work with women during childbirth. The couple who made this documentary travel to Holland, the "home birth capital of the world" to help inform their own decisions. Interesting discussions with a Dutch family physician follow and I was amazed to learn the 87% of the women in Holland deliver their babies at home. Keeping in mind that Canada does not necessarily suit the American system criticism in this film, there is still something to be learned from other countries, like Holland, that have lower infant mortality rates than we do.

For more information and/or to purchase the film, see http://www.pregnantinamerica.com/

I love my vagina

Some of you may have noticed the pack of women sporting "I LOVE MY VAGINA" t-shirts displayed in 24H this week accompanying the article on Papalooza: The Smear Campaign, a unique and popular event run by street nurses to offer pap smears and STI/HIV testing to underserviced and underscreened communities (click here for locations and times). 

The day after reading said article on Papalooza, I had the pleasure of listening to Doreen Littlejohn (founder of the campaign and appearing front and centre in said photo) as a guest lecturer in my UBC class. Not only was she moving and inspirational, but listening to her speak was a great lesson in the power of people. The campaign has brought dozens of women into the clinic who have never had a pap or been tested in their life. Due to the sheer volume of participants last year (most likely lured in my the games, prizes and chocolate vagina door prizes!), those who did not get in to see a practitioner were given rain checks to come back, and they did.

Included in these communities is Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, as well as queer and transgender populations. I was surprised to learn that doctors do not give lesbian women routine pap smears, due to a misconception that HPV cannot be spread between women, thus leading to a potentially higher risk of cervical cancer in lesbian women who detect it too late (read more on this...). The importance of catching cervical cancers, STI's and HIV is not only the individual's concern, but affects our entire community. Making testing and education fun and accessible to these women will easily lead to better health and safer practices - the campaign in brilliant. If only we could all be rewarded with candy for spreading our hips and our lips to cold medal!

African Proverb

Being pregnant and giving birth are like crossing a narrow bridge. People can accompany you on that bridge. They can greet you on the other side. But you walk that bridge alone.

Naomi Wolf's MISCONCEPTIONS is on its way to being book review #2. Lucky for you, she has studded the novel with empowering quotes (or in today's case, proverbs) that I plan on posting as I arrive at them. I haven't yet had the privelage of pregnancy, or motherhood, but a little insight is never a bad thing...and for those of you who have, perhaps this will remind you of the valiant endeavour it is.

Abreast and The Rest

Okay, so I didn't make that title up. It is the name of a website and newsletter that offers a wealth of information and resources concerning breast cancer and gynecological cancers (the "rest").

Check it out: http://www.abreastandtherest.ca/feature.cfm

You will also find loads of peripheral information that is simply related to gals in general.

Click on the links down the left column of the page to search specific topics and use the link "past issues" at the top to view the actual volumes in PDF format. I recommend doing this...the issues I have perused have been diverse and informative.

Pregnant Pin-ups?

So while I was on the TIME website grabbing the article for the last post, I couldn't help but click on the link to "pregnant belly-art".

Uhhh, this is what I got:

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905579_1898860,00.html

Hillarious.
Of note are the pose at the baseball diamond and the "Rock'n'Roll Baby"... WTF? I fear for that child.

The Power of Pregnancy

A friend sent this article to me this morning. It's a thought-provoking read to start your week. For the full story, you will have to scout out today's TIME magazine...

 

How the First Nine Months Shape the Rest of Your Life

By: Annie Murphy Paul

Pregnant Woman: Heidi Benser/Corbis

What makes us the way we are? Why are some people predisposed to be anxious, overweight or asthmatic? How is it that some of us are prone to heart attacks, diabetes or high blood pressure?
There's a list of conventional answers to these questions. We are the way we are because it's in our genes. We turn out the way we do because of our childhood experiences. Or our health and well-being stem from the lifestyle choices we make as adults.
But there's another powerful source of influence you may not have considered: your life as a fetus. The nutrition you received in the womb; the pollutants, drugs and infections you were exposed to during gestation; your mother's health and state of mind while she was pregnant with you — all these factors shaped you as a baby and continue to affect you to this day. 
This is the provocative contention of a field known as fetal origins, whose pioneers assert that the nine months of gestation constitute the most consequential period of our lives, permanently influencing the wiring of the brain and the functioning of organs such as the heart, liver and pancreas. In the literature on the subject, which has exploded over the past 10 years, you can find references to the fetal origins of cancer, cardiovascular disease, allergies, asthma, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, mental illness. At the farthest edge of fetal-origins research, scientists are exploring the possibility that intrauterine conditions influence not only our physical health but also our intelligence, temperament, even our sanity.
As a journalist who covers science, I was intrigued when I first heard about fetal origins. But two years ago, when I began to delve more deeply into the field, I had a more personal motivation: I was newly pregnant. If it was true that my actions over the next nine months would affect my offspring for the rest of his life, I needed to know more. 
Of course, no woman who is pregnant today can escape hearing the message that what she does affects her fetus. She hears it at doctor's appointments, sees it in the pregnancy guidebooks: Do eat this, don't drink that, be vigilant but never stressed. Expectant mothers could be forgiven for feeling that pregnancy is just a nine-month slog, full of guilt and devoid of pleasure, and this research threatened to add to the burden. 
But the scientists I met weren't full of dire warnings but of the excitement of discovery — and the hope that their discoveries would make a positive difference. Research on fetal origins is prompting a revolutionary shift in thinking about where human qualities come from and when they begin to develop. It's turning pregnancy into a scientific frontier: the National Institutes of Health embarked last year on a multidecade study that will examine its subjects before they're born. And it makes the womb a promising target for prevention, raising hopes of conquering public-health scourges like obesity and heart disease through interventions before birth.
This is an abridged version of an article that appears in the Oct. 4, 2010, print and iPad editions of TIME magazine.

Ovaries aren't the bad guys

This week I went to my first observational clinical placement at the BC Cancer Agency and met with a number of extraordinary and accomplished women with successive degrees and specialties in nursing and a shared passion for oncology. Many of them, specifically interested in women's health and oncology i.e. cancers of the breast and gynecological types.

During my meeting with a nurse practitioner who specializes in these cancers, I was informed of a new research discovery...ovarian cancer, as we know it, is actually a cancer of the fallopian tubes. The significance in this discovery is that women who are already having surgery of their reproductive system (hysterectomy or tubal ligation) have typically kept their fallopian tubes, thus maintaining the risk of "ovarian" (fallopian tube) cancer.

My personal views do not encourage preventative surgeries, per say. I do question what consequences, if any, removing the fallopian tubes may have on a woman. However, if a frequently performed and relatively safe procedure such as a hysterectomy could also significantly decrease the rate of ovarian cancer in women (our mothers, partners, friends, sisters and daughters), then I promote awareness and education of these findings.

If you want more information, I've posted an article below that seems to accurately depict this new discovery. I encourage your to do some research yourself and pass the news onto the women in your life!

Remove fallopian tubes during hysterectomy to cut ovarian cancer cases: study

Provided by: Canadian Press
Written by: Sheryl Ubelacker, The Canadian Press
Sep. 8, 2010

B.C. researchers are urging gynecologists to remove a woman's fallopian tubes during a hysterectomy or tubal ligation as a means of preventing ovarian cancer, one of the deadliest malignancies affecting Canadian females.

Researchers from the B.C. Cancer Agency and Vancouver General Hospital are asking all gynecologists in the province — and indeed across Canada — to change the standard surgical practice of leaving the fallopian tubes intact when performing the surgeries.

The fallopian tubes, the conduits for eggs between the ovaries and the womb, have typically been left in place because doctors saw no reason to remove the structures when taking out the uterus, especially if the ovaries were also left untouched.

In a tubal ligation — or getting one's "tubes tied" — the fallopian tubes are not removed but severed and sealed or clamped shut to prevent conception.

But Dr. Sarah Finlayson, a gynecological oncologist at Vancouver General, said recent research has shown that at least half of the cases of the deadliest form of ovarian cancer originate in the fallopian tubes — not the ovaries.

That malignancy, called a high-grade serous tumour, represents about 70 per cent of all ovarian cancers. And because there is no screening test and symptoms can be non-existent or vague, diagnosis too often occurs once the cancer is at an advanced stage and has spread to other tissues.

"Something that we had thought of in the past as an ovarian cancer is really, in fact, a fallopian tube cancer," said Finlayson. "Removing the fallopian tube becomes a way of preventing these cancers."

The Canadian Cancer Society estimates that 2,600 Canadian women will be diagnosed this year with ovarian cancer of one form or another; about 1,750 will die of the disease. High-grade serous carcinoma is the most common form of ovarian cancer, accounting for 90 per cent of advanced-stage ovarian cancer.

Finlayson said most post-menopausal women who have a hysterectomy have their fallopian tubes taken out along with their ovaries, which stop producing estrogen over time.

"So it's really the pre-menopausal women we're interested in talking to or getting this information out to — women who are having hysterectomy prior to the menopause," she said. The surgery is done for a number of reasons, including fibroids, endometriosis and malignancies.

Researchers aren't sure why tumours arise in the fallopian tubes. But they speculate that an infectious or inflammatory process may occur during a woman's monthly period that sets up a repeated process of injury and repair, eventually leading to cancerous lesions.

"So we believe that probably at the time of the hysterectomy, the die has been cast," she said. "The point is to take out the fallopian tube before whatever damage leads to a pre-cancer or a cancer ... and then spreads."

The research team, which is made up of surgeons, oncologists and pathologists, also made another important discovery: they found one in five serous tumours occur because a woman carries a BRCA genetic mutation. Women with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation have an elevated risk of developing breast and-or ovarian cancer.

"What this means is that in 20 per cent of cases, we are discovering the index case," Dr. Blake Gilks, a pathologist with B.C.'s Ovarian Cancer Research Program, said in a statement.

"A woman may have no prior history of ovarian cancer in her family, but we now know that her children and their children could be at risk, and we have the ability to screen them genetically and act proactively."

That's why, Finlayson noted, the researchers want every women diagnosed with a high-grade serous tumour to be referred to the B.C. Cancer Agency for genetic testing and counselling.

These two steps — changing practice to remove the fallopian tubes and genetic testing — "will allow us to decrease the rate of ovarian cancer in B.C. by up to 50 per cent over the next two decades," she said.

"The ability to do surgery for prevention is going to rest with gynecologists who see women before cancer develops," said Finlayson, who hopes to see a national strategy within the next year for getting the message across to women and their doctors.

Xmas WISH list

One of the greatest privileges of the profession I am entering is the opportunity to walk right into people's lives and (to repeat an instructor's recent words) "often take more out of the relationship than I give". As a student, I will be undoubtedly guilty of this.

I await these interactions with anticipation and absolute fear...knowing that my life experience thus far limits me to relating to a relatively small population of people on a true, genuine level. In hopes of giving back to these individuals who will initially shape my experience as a health care provider, I am thankful for the abundance of volunteer opportunities that have been sent my way and to those who have been devoted to the establishment and continuity of these organizations for the benefit of the individuals, the community and the personal growth of the volunteers who work there.

WISH Drop-In Centre Society provides basic amenities, health services and safety to women who work in the sex-trade in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. They have a variety of volunteer opportunities for anyone who is interested and a wealth of programs and services that I urge you to check out...especially the Mobile Acccess Project that I feel is particulary rad: http://www.wish-vancouver.net/index.cfm?go=site.index&section=programs&page=map). A less involved means of supporting the centre or the women who go there, is to provide donations of clothing, gently used cosmetics, books, etc. So next time you fill your car with boxes for value village, please think again about what items might be of use to WISH. See this link for details on what they look for on a regular basis: http://www.wish-vancouver.net/index.cfm?go=site.index&section=wish_list&page=wish_list

After attending my orientation there, I can't reiterate enough the power of people helping people and especially, women helping women. A new shirt and a touch of mascara goes a long way girls...that's pretty much a universal law of women! So next time you come across those bottles of body cream your aunt has given you for the last eight years consecutively, or that (barely worn) bra that is too big now that you went off the pill, add them to your WISH list and get festive this christmas!

Note: Any NEW items will be elaborately wrapped at the centre and stored for birthdays...how awesome!?

BOOK REVIEW || Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born by Tina Cassidy

This book is incredible. Tina Cassidy offers a stunningly new perspective on the evolution of healthcare, and with that, the birthing process. This book chronologically depicts how women's bodies have changed; how the interpretation and reputation of childbirth has changed and is still changing in countries all over the world; how the institution of medicine and hospitals emerged from days of home care and home births to heavily institutionalized and recently, to somewhere in between. She takes you on this global journey through time while you sneak preview the remarkable, inspiring, frightening and sometimes terrifying realities of people's lives - women's lives - as they (we) continue to give birth...each time influenced by new research and policies and supported by different resources and establishments.

Some of the procedures used during childbirth several decades ago here in North America are hard to imagine. "Twilight sleep" was one of these shocking discoveries that emerged in the early 1900's as part of a feminist movement to end all suffering in childbirth. In the early stages of labour, doctors would administer injections of morphine combined with the amnesiac scopolamine until the woman's short-term memory was far mere minutes. Her eyes were bandaged, ears stuffed with cotton and arms strapped down to ensure a blissful snooze for the entirety of the labour and birth. Amazingly, women from all over the world aspired to do this and Twilight Sleep became a symbol of women's new found freedom and power. It became the norm. Some doctors, who loved their minimal involvement in the process, actually made it mandatory. Twilight Sleep continued into the 1970's.

Being careful not to "believe everything I read", I asked my 94 year old grandmother about the birth of her first child. Her response went something like this, "Now let me see...I do recall being in some pain, yes....but it didn't last long at all. No. Eventually, I knew Jen had been born because I heard a baby crying. I think they may have showed her to me, but I don't quite remember that too well. I didn't hold her for a couple days." To her, that was normal - who am I to judge?

From a woman who has been a journalist for years, this book is not just another birth book. It is not a birth book at all. It's a book about the history of how we are born. It's a historical non-fiction and a remarkable insight into the evolution and interconnection of the human body, society, science and medicine.

You can read more about "Birth" and Tina Cassidy here: http://tinacassidy.info/. Until today, I hadn't realised that she has a like-minded blog called "The Birth Book Blog" (www.tinacassidy.blogspot.com), which I've also posted in the Menstrual Madness list of links. 

powerful words from a powerful woman

Thanks Karley for being brave enough to share these words, images and emotions and for the confidence and generosity to share them with others.  

As a woman I am in a space in time where i can collaborate three topics with pathos bounding from my uterus. True womynly wisdom, with raging anger and a sick devilish narcissist cackling on my shoulder.


We live in this society where by woman are responsible for birth control. We are to mutilate, pollute and alter our bodies to fight the natural progression of our fate all in hopes to evade sexual disappointment. Whilst attempting this, our inner woman suppresses the screaming, pounding, anger so we don't have 'inappropriate' outbursts, or in some cases, don't even have consciousness of it. We are taught to think that we can be in control of our fertility and by that, able to shut the whole process down. Narcissism at its finest. The belief that one can contrive and control oneself to an obsessional finite goal. I'm sick of it.
I just got my 5th IUD of my life. 4 months ago i had my last one taken out and promised it was my last, but today when i had my 5th IUD implanted i knew something was off. The physical procedure went fabulously, of course, they've been practicing it for decades. The entire emotional component was surprising, uprising and unacknowledged or supported by doctor. We played god, together, again. I implanted a device made of the same material they conduct electricity by into my uterus at the peak age of my fertility. I didn't even flinch at the uterine contraction, my uterus rejecting this foreign object while the doctor calmly talked to me about the potential for infertility with infection and the risks of perforation. She removed the cold metal clamps from my vagina and left me alone bleeding on the table..... ``All went well``......


Where does a woman fit in this misogynistic society while striving to be a professional? Where is the compassion for a woman and the time for her to take for herself to contemplate the choices she does have with regards to her fertility, while grasping to keep up with her counterparts, colleagues? Where did i learn that sex is how you please your partner? A commercial? At what age did i adopt the idea that physical pleasure is more important than your primal fate? So much more so that we have conjured multiple forms of detrimental birth control just so we can have that pleasure, drug ourselves mid orgasm with oxytocin to believe we are connected...."in love", but not procreate. When did i adopt the feeling of disappointment or rejection when my partner was tired and couldn't make love to me, instead of the compassion to help rejuvenate and facilitate them to restore themselves to be the best person they can because i actually love them? Why are we as a society not encouraged to think anymore, but to always accept a norm thought about by someone else?


So today i am left to contemplate, to bleed, to feel angry, to not silence myself and to start thinking for myself. For that i am thankful. For the woman inside that can speak so loud that i hear her, i am thankful. For the choices we do have, I am thankful. For the ability and invitation to share the bane of a modern professional woman who basically has everything, i am thankful, as i believe it is all relative. We will figure it out, together, and not forget to talk about it, to share, to love, and to continue to educate. And for that, I am very thankful.

1 - 2 - 3 - say "cervix"!

For anyone interested in Natural Family Planning, this site will provide a wealth of knowledge and fulfill the likely curiosity you have on how exactly your cervix is changing every month. For those of you who aren't interested, you might know people who are. Share the knowledge. And for all the rest of you, check it out anyways. I think it's fascinating to see how this part of our female reproductive system responds to the changes in our bodies each cycle and after childbirth. I assume that for many of you, these hidden body parts are probably hidden for a reason. But when it comes to your body, I don't believe ignorance is bliss. You might be surprised and perhaps enlightened by the awareness it brings you.
http://www.beautifulcervix.com/welcome/

Pelvic exams done without consent

The following is an article about medical students practicing internal vaginal exams in patients while they are unconscious during surgery. Apparently in Canada it is not necessary to attain consent from the patients to do such an examination.

This news horrified me, not only because it is a violation of women’s rights, but also because medical students throughout Canada have been doing these procedures without questioning the moral principles of their actions.

As women, I think it is important to know what else we are signing up for when we go under the knife. Please read on...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/time-to-end-pelvic-exams-done-without-consent/article1447337/

My First Home Birth

I recently had the opportunity to attend a totally natural, home birth as a doula. It was an extraordinary experience and still a novel one to me. The mum was a true inspiration to watch and a testament to what we are still capable of if we choose to take on that responsibility. To see a child come into this world by candlelight - from inside another human being is completely and utterly mind-blowing.

I feel like I walk a little lighter now, like I've been humbled by the power of nature.

One cannot doubt the essential connection between man and nature, but it is easy to lose sight of in today's modern society. I feel lucky to be a part of these definitive moments that are at the essence of our existence and I feel lucky to be a woman. We are at the roots of it all.

what's in a name?

I have recently and repeatedly found myself involved in a discussion about the naming of women's genitals. The consensus is that the conventional words for "down there", including "down there", are either harshly literal (vagina, crotch), universally offensive (cunt) or avoidant and shy (nether regions, private parts, did I mention "down there"). Allow me to shed some more light on a couple of those terms:

[krotch]: a forking or place of forking, as of the human body between the legs.
[neth.er re.gions]: the lowest or furthest parts of a place, esp. with allusion to hell or the underworld.

I think you see where I am going with this...it's time to get some tips to name our lips! Women tend to lean towards choosing names of flowers or fruits. Coincidently, flowers are the sex organs of plants ;) In fact, in botany, [va.gi.na] means the sheath formed by the basal part of certain leaves where they embrace the stem. Not bad ;)

The objective: to find a word that rolls off the tongue, is short (two syllables max) and sweet, not too literal and sounds sexy at the right times. Hmmm...

The results: This is what some women have come up with...
- clove
- tulip
- place
- weave
- almond
- peach
- bouche (you got it...accent on that last e)

I'm interested in taking this discussion to the next level, which means (a) unleashing it onto the world wide web and (b) asking a lot more women to get involved (feedback on successes or failures of attempting to implement said words are most definitely welcome).

"Maternal Mortality: Why it's a crisis"

From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published on Friday, Jan. 29, 2010.

Worth a read. 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/maternal-mortality-brwhy-its-a-crisis/article1449826/

"Con-DOM"

I WILL stop playing on YouTube after this, but here's another video on contraceptives.
The most worthwhile part of watching this video is the small alien-head cartoon that says "con-dom" in an english accent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXpAS-jCxGU

Enjoy friends.

Our favourite topic - the IUD

A nice concise video about the IUD - biased towards it's promotion but she makes a good argument and has got me thinking about it again...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2oMElDcpdM