Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - Posts
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By Amanda Marcotte
In today's utterly-unsurprising-but-still-necessary news, the Guttmacher Institute has released a report detailing how women living in households making less than $75,000 a year are responding to the recession by losing the desire to have a baby anytime in the near future. (PDF of the report here.) To be specific, 44 percent of the women surveyed indicated that they wanted to reduce or delay their childbearing in response to the recession. Unfortunately, the lowered desire to get pregnant doesn't necessarily translate to better contraception use for women. In many cases, in fact, economic hard times make it all the much easier to get pregnant on accident ... (Read more in DoubleX)
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If all this talk about the 70th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz has you thinking, “Gee, I wonder what would happen if Dorothy Gale were a corn-fed nymphomaniac with deviant tendencies,” have I got the graphic novel for you.
The mammoth, landmark Lost Girls—first published as a pricey three-volume set in 2006 and finally released in an affordable single volume this summer—is the product of 16 years of collaboration between comics legend Alan Moore (writer of Watchmen) and artist Melinda Gebbie ... (Read more in DoubleX.)
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Guest post by Sarah Elizabeth Richards, the author of "The Clock Ticker's Reprieve," a narrative account of how egg freezing affected the lives of five women, to be published by Simon & Schuster in summer 2010.
In response to my article about Rielle Hunter's chances of having a baby at 43, a reader asks how researchers determine a woman’s chances of becoming pregnant each month, especially when they don’t know when or how frequently she is having intercourse. Since a woman is only fertile about three days a month, the stat assumes she’s had sex during this window ... (Read more in DoubleX.)