US aid for women’s sexual health worldwide under threat

Under Trump, campaigners say, $600m in aid could be ‘cut drastically’, costing maternal lives, as they predict return to anti-abortion stance on health funding

10 of the best women-only activity holidays

Demand for women-only breaks is growing. These activity trips include yoga, surfing, boot camps, and dog-sledding, from Kent to Kilimanjaro

A moment that changed me: being abused on the street about my weight

It’s happened before and it will happen again – to me and other fat people. The difference now is that I don’t want pity from people, I want anger

The Guilty Feminist: is it OK to watch Beauty and the Beast in your wedding dress?

Don your tiara and turn up Blurred Lines for this always excellent podcast that looks at not feeling good enough at feminism. The subject of the latest instalment is periods, and nothing’s off-limits

French mothers don’t suffer from bladder incontinence. And nor should you

Unlike Nadia Sawalha, I am a stranger to urinary accidents, even after four vaginal births – because I’ve had my pelvic floor electronically re-educated

Why is it harder for women to orgasm? A hands-on episode of Vagina Dispatches

Episode three of the Vagina Dispatches: why is it so much harder for women to orgasm? Plus: Periods can hurt. They can also affect your sex drive. And they really aren’t all bad. Got more? Email us at vagina.dispatches@theguardian.com

Can we stop talking about our bushes now? Feminists are needed elsewhere

Donald Trump is running for president. A rape complainant’s sexual history was pored over. Domestic violence shelters are closing. Bikini waxes seem somehow insignificant

The women hounded for giving birth outside the system

Some women who opt for alternative births are being forced towards medical intervention or threatened with social services, yet they are doing nothing wrong

Having sex with the lights off? It’s the thin edge of the Donald Trump wedge

At one end we have Trump saying things like ‘she is a fat piglet’ and at the other we have body shaming by a weight control company – it is all of a piece

Skin a Cat review – sexual odyssey with charm and comic edge

This endearing drama about a woman who has vaginismus – played brilliantly by Lydia Larson – suggests its writer, Isley Lynn, could be rising star