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sethrakI am creating one called "This is why I am a Goddamn feminist".
Found a fascinating article via Metaquotes, from an online business management magazine, about the history of "feminine hygiene products" that were in fact meant as (highly ineffective) birth control methods, sold and marketed in a way to fly under the radar of anti-obscenity laws.
It is fascinating and appalling reading. Not only were most of these methods woefully ineffective as pregnancy prevention, but they were quite dangerous.
This is why I am a feminist. Because laws "to prevent fornication" or "for women's own good" create environments where women lack any kind of knowledge about effective means for birth control, and lack any legal redress for being lied to or harmed by the quasi-legal methods they turn to in desperation.
Link here: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2005/is_n3_v29/ai_18498205/pg_1
Found a fascinating article via Metaquotes, from an online business management magazine, about the history of "feminine hygiene products" that were in fact meant as (highly ineffective) birth control methods, sold and marketed in a way to fly under the radar of anti-obscenity laws.
It is fascinating and appalling reading. Not only were most of these methods woefully ineffective as pregnancy prevention, but they were quite dangerous.
This is why I am a feminist. Because laws "to prevent fornication" or "for women's own good" create environments where women lack any kind of knowledge about effective means for birth control, and lack any legal redress for being lied to or harmed by the quasi-legal methods they turn to in desperation.
Link here: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2005/is_n3_v29/ai_18498205/pg_1
