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  • More on Sweaty T-Shirts

    Meghan, I checked out that T-shirt sniffing study you flagged, and, well, it hardly implies a crisis for pill-users – or a pink slip for novelists. To recap: The researchers asked women to rate the smells of T-shirts worn by different men. For each woman, they chose three men who were more genetically similar (in terms of a specific set of ...
    Posted to The XX Factor  by Amanda Schaffer on August 19, 2008

  • Five Puppies and a Sex Slave

    Meghan, I'm curious about that T-shirt sniffing, too, and am trying to get hold of the actual paper. In the meantime, I confess, I've been riveted by another tale that features some modicum of science but also five puppies, a Mormon sex slave, and (possibly) a three-legged horse. So, turning for a moment from birth control to copious reproduction ...
    Posted to The XX Factor  by Amanda Schaffer on August 15, 2008

  • Birth Control for College Students

    I’m not sure if the bedraggled Hillary will win women’s sympathy. But it blows my minds that college students who can no longer get low-cost contraception at school aren’t getting much sympathy from Slate readers. College health centers have long gotten discount pills from drug companies, which the companies are apparently happy to provide. ...
    Posted to The XX Factor  by Amanda Schaffer on December 18, 2007

  • Breasts, etc.

    Rachael, isn’t part of the issue that white-collar jobs tend to accommodate pumping and breastfeeding more than blue-collar or service industry jobs do? This piece, for instance, paints a stark contrast between female Starbucks execs who get to use a lovely “Lactation Room,” and women working behind café counters who have to pump in bathrooms ...
    Posted to The XX Factor  by Amanda Schaffer on November 9, 2007

  • Moss Graffiti

    This weekend, a friend showed me artist Edina Tokodi’s incredible moss graffiti, which features moss in the form of animals like rabbits and deer and abstract compositions mounted on walls in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Tokodi’s work is a whimsical surprise, green and playful. But I think moss will be creeping up on us more and more.Last week, the ...
    Posted to The XX Factor  by Amanda Schaffer on October 29, 2007

  • In Other XX News

    The beleaguered federal office that oversees family planning services just got another boss hostile to birth control. Among the depressing details: Susan Orr, the new appointee, was formerly a Senior Director at the Family Research Council, a group that disparages condom use and claims that abstinence is the only healthy choice to make about ...
    Posted to The XX Factor  by Amanda Schaffer on October 17, 2007
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