No ironic spin is possible for SoulCycle coming to Williamsburg

Emma Brockes: New York's 'sincerity wars' have been prematurely curtailed – by the arrival in hipster central of an entirely irony-free exercise cult

Bodyform’s bloodless snark attack

Arwa Mahdawi: The sanitary pad brand's response to a Facebook comment is funny, but it remains within the conventions it's satirising

Wendy Greengross obituary

Pioneering counsellor, agony aunt for the Sun and writer on sex education

Call for ban on TV junk food ads before 9pm watershed

Overhaul regulation to tackle soaring rates of obesity among children and young people, doctors say

How a vaginal cream ad has prompted debate about sexuality in India

Samira Shackle: While India is fast becoming the next superpower, this rapid economic growth is not yet matched by a sexual revolution

Tobacco packets attract children. Now argue against making them plain

Deborah Taffler: The tobacco industry depends on attractive packaging to draw in young recruits as the old ones die

Better-adjusted adults would make for better-adjusted children, surely?

Deborah Orr: Trying to warn children off succumbing to body image pressures is no good if so many adults succumb to them

You can stick your feminine hygiene product ads up your hoo haa, Femfresh

Naomi McAuliffe: Women don't need specific cleaning products for their vaginas – nor Femfresh to come up with a list of bizarre euphemisms

Uncomfortable in our skin: the body-image report

More of us than ever hate the way that we look. It’s making us anxious, unhealthy and disempowered. Eva Wiseman presents a special report on the pressures distorting the way we think and feel

Guns don’t kill people, video game players do

Martin Robbins: Desperate attempts to link video games to violence make me far more angry than the games themselves ever did