Female troubles

Why wasn't this book around when I was a teenager? Don't Cramp My Style: Stories About that Time of the Month, edited by Lisa Rowe Fraustino, 813.08D7192, is now on our New Book Shelf. These stories explore "everything from boyfriends buying tampons, to embarrassing encounters in white, to heart-wrenching pregnancy scares." Here's a quote from the poor sucker who has been asked by his girlfriend to buy tampons:

"I scanned the aisles. There they were. A couple small boxes. I stared at them, trying to decipher the meanings of the words and compare them against the phrases Tracy had spoken. Light, medium, heavy, super, extra, carefree, fancy, and on and on like sacred words from the chanted mantra of a foreign cult."