Everyone's talking: "Morning After" vending machine. And more

Welcome to the Mamamia Wine Bar where you can kick back with a drink of whatever you like and digest a few of today’s biggest talking points:

1. The morning-after pill vending machine

Students at Shippensburg University in central Pennsylvania can get the “morning-after” pill by sliding $25 into a vending machine installed at the request of the student government. The pill is available without a prescription to anyone 17 or older. You cannot get chocolates or drinks from the same machine – we checked!

The Etter Health Center at Shippensburg provides the Plan B One Step emergency contraceptive along with condoms, decongestants and pregnancy tests.  Handy no? “The machine is in a private room in our health center, and the health center is only accessible by students, In addition, no one can walk in off the street and go into the health center”

2. Occupy Facebook – with boobs!

Facebook have been removing photos of mothers breastfeeding, under its terms of agreement which state ‘users cannot post content that is hateful, pornographic, contains nudity or incites violence’. According to Facebook  “On some occasions, breastfeeding photos contain nudity – for example an exposed breast that is not being used for feeding – and therefore violate our terms.”

Australian blogger, Eden Riley has launched a breastfeeding revolution on her Facebook page – Edenland. She says:

This issue runs deeper than breastfeeding photos. It’s questioning the rules of what is and isn’t considered socially acceptable and offensive these days, both on and offline. I have four children – two young boys, and two teenage stepkids. The things I have seen on my teenagers facebook walls have been horrifying, and I am no prude. Crotch shots, cleavage photos of fifteen year old girls, facebook groups with incredibly offensive content. THESE are the things that need policing. Not women feeding their children.

Here’s a gallery of some of the shots that have been sent in to Eden in protest.

A taxi driver acquitted of raping a drunk 25-year-old female passenger claims cab drivers are frequently offered sexual favours as payment.

Prabhjit Gill, 37, said he knew of up to 60 drivers who had been offered sex, and said he was personally offered oral sex as payment for fares “two or three times” a month. He said he never accepted sexual favours as payment, but knew of many drivers who did.  He said Swan Taxis warned drivers during their training course that they would be offered sex, and told them “your job is to say no.”

4. Harmony Day

Harmony Day, which is celebrated around Australia on 21 March each year, is a day when all Australians celebrate our cultural diversity. Here’s the ad (watch out for Mia) and send it to everyone you know. What a brilliant message. Welcome to Australia EVERYONE:

And another thing…

If you need to catch up on the news from today, check out our news post here.

Also on Mamamia today we discussed the women that we admire,we shared what would be on our ‘reverse bucket lists’ – and if you have no idea what a reverse bucket list is, hop on over and read about it here.

We looked inside the life of a street sex worker – it’s an absolute must-read. Plus, if you haven’t seen it already, check out this heartbreaking ad for adoption – it made everyone in the MM office want to adopt several dozen children.

Speaking of the MM office, we had a very exciting announcement to make in today’s Open Post. Also a gallery to flick through

Now over to you, what’s on your mind?