Starlet complaining about attention WHILE POSING FOR A MAGAZINE COVER.

really? SHE'S afraid of being photographed topless?

I have Essure, and this was stated as a risk. It's something going inside your body, all bodies react differently. There is also an increased risk of ectopic pregnancy. My doctor, at least, was very upfront about all that and the company materials were as well.

How was it? I've been considering it for a while. I'd love to hear your experience!

If I could like this a million times, I would.

No, no, no! I am a former surgical rep for the company that developed Essure (Conceptus). Having sold the device for a year in a major metro area, I have to disagree with basically everything this article is insinuating. The procedure is not painful to the majority of women who undergo it. Yes, of course there are…

Does anyone else ever wonder why we have a bajillion birth control options for women and basically two for men (condoms and vasectomy)? Isn't there anything else that can be done to torture men the way I get tortured to prevent the babies from happening? Did anyone ever thing about shoving a doohicky up in the sperm…

Beautifully explained!

Agreed. Because you can value yourself, and still run up against structural barriers. In Melissa Harris-Perry's book Sister Citizen she writes about the crooked room social science experiment: a room where all the angles in the room are crooked and it's up to the individual to find the true center. In this case and…

Full disclosure here - I've had Essure done, and honestly, it's one of the few procedures I *didn't* have any issues with. As to be expected, I was in pain the day after the procedure, and the only other time I felt pain related to it was when they tested to see if it "took." (They basically stick a balloon in your…

Have these. Do not hurt. But it was clearly stated as a risk, and then the doc explained that if that happened, they'd just take them out. Boom. No big deal. *shrug*

Erin Brockovich is the living embodiment of "correlation does not imply causation."

I'm going to start by saying that I'm fine with trying to boost girls' self-esteem. But I do have problems with it as the way make positive social change. Why is the onus on the children and not the people/structures who are crushing them? It's kind of how I feel about The Secret. Thinking positively can only get…

This example is very unconvincing evidence that the device had any part to play in her pain. I mean, surely it could, but also surely a hysterectomy would also solve any and all other causes for lady-area-pain.

She waited a YEAR? Hell, I went to my doctor after having extreme pain for a week. Granted, that's a copper IUD, and it stopped after that first cycle.

There's still time!!! Don't give up. If sluts gave up when something was hard, well...we wouldn't be sluts.

Fuck it, lets just shut the whole country down and have one big drunken pool party.

You're welcome! If I can be helpful in any slutty way in the future, just let me know.

Moderation would probably be a better idea. Otherwise I don't envy the rebellious stage you're going to experience.

For reals, on that. Girls dressed up in school girl outfits and working in a brothel? What a feminist movie!