by Lexi Reich | Nov 1, 2021 | Health
//Illustration by Madison Lauterbach | mlauterbach@msmayhem.com Editor’s note: The author has a personal relationship with the anonymous source in this article. What do a so-called normal labia look like? Labia, which is Latin for lips, protect the vaginal...
by Lexi Reich | May 10, 2021 | Health
//Illustration by Madison Lauterbach | mlauterbach@msmayhem.com Kelly Sammis thinks that sometimes we remain feeling broken because we don’t know things can be different. Ten years after surviving a sexual assault in college, Sammis says her pelvis was speaking to...
by Lexi Reich | May 28, 2021 | Health
//Illustration by Madison Lauterbach | mlauterbach@msmayhem.com Did you know that vaginal odor is the cause of unhappy marriages and broken homes? At least that’s what this 1950s Zonite douching ad wants you to believe. Misogynist marketing tactics are not as passé...
by Lexi Reich | Jul 5, 2021 | Health
//Rose Schlosser stares out a window in her Loveland home on July 2. Schlosser underwent endometrial ablation in 2012 for the endometrioma on her left ovary. She is one of the 6.5 million Americans who have the common but misunderstood gynecological disease. Photo by...
by Lexi Reich | Jan 28, 2021 | Features, Health
//Geoff Davis stands outside one of two Period Kits storage facilities on Jan. 26. Photo by Madison Lauterbach | mlauterbach@msmayhem.com Before Geoff Davis established Period Kits, he didn’t know the difference between a pad and a tampon. In fact, when the...
by Megan Webber | Jul 22, 2020 | Editorials
//Illustration by Estevan Ruiz | ruiz.estevan@gmail.com Very little is too risqué for Hollywood these days. Americans devour entire TV series focused on sex and sexuality, but the topic of menstruation seems to be too much of a taboo for our stomachs to handle. When...
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