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  If you haven’t heard the word making the rounds in the last week, women are taking risks with anal sex when they could take a lesson from men who have sex with men. Recent research from the New York Department of Health found that 100,000 women in NYC have anal sex each year. Yet only [...]

I’m not a follower of American Idol (I’ll confess I prefer Survivor if I’m watching “reality” TV), but I couldn’t help but notice the big news that came out of the American Idol Gives Back fundraiser last week. Apparently Annie Lennox wore a t-shirt that says HIV Positive. The coverage was quick to point out that everyone can relax, because she’s not. My reaction was, so what if she is? And that’s her point.

Kotex hit a sour mark when it tested some TV ads. It seems the word vagina just isn’t okay for TV, as the New York Times and several others reported recently. If saying the word vagina is deemed inappropriate for peoples’ ears, is it any wonder the safer sex talk can be difficult?

IWD celebrates how women make change economically, politically and socially. But you don’t have to work at an international level to make change- as has been echoed many times, the personal is political. Does the personal is political still have meaning in this “post-feminist” age? I think it does. It’s certainly made a difference in the past.

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