That's not to say that menstruation isn't painful, and some women experience more pain than others during menstruation.
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The conversation around menstruation in Thiruvananthapuram is extraordinary, say campaigners, as for many Indian women, especially adolescent girls, menstruation is both "shameful and uncomfortable".
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"Despite the backward views on menstruation, we felt we could slowly start talking about this in public," said Shradha Shreejaya of the Sustainable Menstruation Kerala Collective.
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While it has been proven that snakes can detect menstruation, Breitweiser explained that overall, a reptile's ability to sense menstruation depends on their sense of smell.
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Author Sady Doyle, on the other hand, helpfully dismantled the essentialist arguments for indelibly linking menstruation, and by extension, the packaging of menstruation-related products, to womanhood.
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These girls tell their "menstruation stories" in an effort to speak out against the cultural practice and end the stigma against menstruation, both for themselves and future generations.
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The impact of gravity menstruation is something that hasn't been researched much—one original concern was whether gravity changes would lead to retrograde menstruation, where menstrual blood flows inward toward the pelvic cavity.
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Most Indian women still use cloths and rags during menstruation.
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All of these words are euphemisms for one thing: menstruation.
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Here are seven important menstruation moments from movies and TV.
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For way too long, people have played menstruation for laughs.
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The very fact of menstruation seems to appall the president.
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Nor can the study prove concussions actually cause abnormal menstruation.
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Her older sisters filled her in on details like menstruation.
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Initiatives to "make menstruation matter" are both welcome and overdue.
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It is then removed for one week to permit menstruation.
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They still cannot participate in household activities during the menstruation.
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They may then hear that menstruation is dirty and shameful.
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And it's all an effort to destigmatize menstruation for the masses.
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And, unfortunately, it may be at its least effective during menstruation.
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I can't believe a movie about menstruation just won an Oscar!
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This results in ovulation and, if pregnancy does not occur, menstruation.
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Or at least, educate more people about the realities of menstruation?
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These depictions mirror, and likely influence, how Americans feel about menstruation.
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A lack of estrogen can lead to amenorrhoea, meaning menstruation ceases.
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He said the stigmatization of menstruation is not confined to India.
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Even in space (where there is zero gravity) menstruation remains unaffected.
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And oh yeah, by the way, menstruation makes human life possible!
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This app makes predictions of menstruation and ovulation using machine learning.
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"We're educating people about the economic impact of menstruation," she says.
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The first episode is about ejaculation; the second takes on menstruation.
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We did stories on abortion and menstruation and bisexuality and orgasms.
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Perhaps the strongest works here are the loosely-drawn, menstruation-based pieces.
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Because, after all, menstruation is just another very important aspect of health.
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However, the condition is exacerbated in women at the time of menstruation.
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Women who took the product experienced unusual hair growth and missed menstruation.
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"It's not that I am so passionate about menstruation," she tells CNBC.
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Maybe you learn about menstruation, but you don't learn about sexual pleasure.
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Worldwide, menstruation is among the leading causes of school absenteeism in girls.
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It's about putting menstruation at the table with everything we think about.
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"Peri" is Greek for "near," and menopause is the ceasing of menstruation.
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For these women, the cost of menstruation is missing out on life.
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These practical problems are made worse by the stigma that surrounds menstruation.
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Activists said they planned to demolish many menstruation huts starting next month.
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The answer, it emerged on Friday, was — at least in part — menstruation.
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"The tissue that is lost during menstruation is a mom's way of keeping the fetus in check—it's like an evolutionary balance," explains Dr. Elizabeth Rowe, an anthropologist from Perdue University who researches menstruation, the uterus, and genetics.
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Companies such as Lola and Cora, which make tampons from organic cotton, some of which are free of the customary plastic applicators, and Thinx, which makes underwear with built-in menstruation protection, highlight modernized ways to handle menstruation.
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Of the show's entirety, Jen Lewis's photographs might deal with menstruation most directly.
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There was some concern the conservative commentator was connecting NAFTA to women's menstruation.
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Pennyroyal oil, for example, was an insecticide used to induce menstruation and abortion.
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Is it any surprise some women opt to stay home when menstruation begins?
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Menstruation and poverty are issues that impact girls and women around the world.
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And we need to better understand sex, childbirth, and even menstruation in space.
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"The message to women has been: 'Menstruation is your problem, ladies,'" she said.
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In 2015, a clip of Esposito performing a joke about menstruation went viral.
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Or as bold a statement as speaking to classmates about menstruation, a taboo.
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Women in Indonesia are given a monthly two-day menstruation leave by law.
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The survey revealed over 5,000 different euphemisms for menstruation from 10 different languages.
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"It seems so romantic and thoughtful to share the lifelong burden of menstruation."
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The producers of a film about menstruation got emotional — understandably — during Sunday's Oscars.
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It can cause pelvic pain, painful menstruation, painful sexual intercourse and reduced fertility.
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Such extreme dieting can lead to dangerous electrolyte imbalances, dehydration — and irregular menstruation.
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Infibulation makes urination, menstruation and sex arduous, and increases risks of pregnancy complications.
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Yet, because of the stigma around menstruation, periods have remained a taboo topic.
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Jealousy, injury and menstruation complicate their journeys of self-discovery and sexual awakening.
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The bloc has pledged to remove all taxes on menstruation products by 2022.
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A deeply entrenched stigma around menstruation persists in many parts of India today.
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Through this, I began painting underwear emulating menstruation stains but with colorful watercolors.
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"I find it limiting when menstruation is regarded solely as a 'woman's experience,' like when people use phrases such as 'entering womanhood' when referring to menstruation and 'feminine hygiene products' when talking about tampons, pads, or menstrual cups," Lopez wrote.
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During menstruation, this tissue acts like uterine lining does: thickening, breaking down, and bleeding.
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Banished Chhaupadi dates back centuries and has its roots in Hindu taboos over menstruation.
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They also used digital pregnancy tests at home to identify pregnancies and menstruation cycles.
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We need information and knowledge about what menstruation is and how to handle it.
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They become oppressive and reinforce ideas that menstruation is dirty or shameful or abnormal.
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The paintings were about orgasm and menstruation' explosions of pleasure and explosions of pain.
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Researchers also surveyed mothers during pregnancy about their age when they first began menstruation.
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But Blume's books are perhaps best known for their handling of puberty and menstruation.
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Syrian adolescent girls reported more basic knowledge about menstruation before getting their first periods.
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For many women in South Asia, especially adolescent girls, menstruation is shameful and uncomfortable.
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Banished Chhaupadi dates back centuries and has its roots in Hindu taboos over menstruation.
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The United Nations is working to eliminate the ongoing discrimination women face during menstruation.
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We could change how society views menstruation, saving women a lot of unnecessary grief.
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Menstruation was actually a major factor in women not making the journey into space.
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Ahead, nine international menstruation euphemisms (translated into English), courtesy of period-tracker app Clue.
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In Judaism, too, menstruation can be a cause of ritual impurity, as can childbirth.
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The time he implied Megyn Kelly's harsh questioning of him was due to menstruation.
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I march for menstruators, including trans and nonbinary friends who may also experience menstruation.
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Apps like Clue and Period Tracker help women keep track of their menstruation cycles.
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Trainers from UNICEF have to convince them that there is nothing unclean about menstruation.
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Today girls and women are talking openly about menstruation, a topic long considered taboo.
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And what can we do to ensure that policy does acknowledge and accommodate menstruation?
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Menstruation is, was or will be a reality for half of the world's population.
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After class I asked the professor if prostaglandins from menstruation could also cause diarrhea?
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In Delhi, 70 government schools run workshops to answer commonly asked questions around menstruation.
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"Parents don't seem to realize that jumping from menstruation straight to pregnancy prevention means they are skipping over a lot of important information such as how menstruation works, why it happens, and how to predict when your period will come," Herbert said.
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HOW NICE IT MUST BE TO HAVE THE LUXURY OF BEING GROSSED OUT BY MENSTRUATION.
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Though menstruation is an annoying inconvenience for many, periods can be traumatic for trans people.
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About 50% of all reported cases of TSS are not menstruation-related, according to Dweck.
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And when menstruation starts again, women see improvements in other health outcomes, like bone density.
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That's not too surprising, given how many people still think that menstruation is somehow gross.
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We all bear the same level of challenge in terms of the stigmatization of menstruation.
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"What about a live action remake of 'the story of menstruation&apos" the user wrote.
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And yes, consider this a TMI-free zone, as any conversation about menstruation should be.
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Yet more open discussion about menstruation has been more slow to catch on in China.
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He also offers emotional support and anxiety management skills, as menstruation can trigger gender dysphoria.
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I draw inspiration from neolithic goddess cultures, myth, animism, symbolism, and menstruation, sex, breastfeeding, etc.
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To Dorothea's consternation, they instruct him in feminism, menstruation, and the importance of the clitoris.
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They also feature cartoon illustrations of male and female genitalia, penis-in-vagina penetration and menstruation.
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In particular, she learned about the stigma surrounding menstruation and lack of access to proper sanitation.
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In the past, the site has removed photos depicting breastfeeding and menstruation, frustrating women's rights groups.
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" Helene Deutsch, another psychoanalyst, defined menstruation as "agitated periods during which previously repressed feelings are released.
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So why can't we just use the word menstruation instead of all of this period slang?
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The physiological reason why people get amenorrhea has to do with the hormones that trigger menstruation.
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Because it's involved in menstruation, it thickens, breaks down and bleeds once a month or so.
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Menstruation taboos can be found all over the world - here are 10 of the most common.
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A lot of people scare away from menstruation and dont give proper information that girls need.
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When I get my 'cement hips,' it's still usually another two weeks until I start menstruation.
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"It could be questions about HIV or other STDs, menstruation, masturbation… anything regarding sexuality," explains Nabembezi.
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In Kenya, for example, menstruation is cited as the number one reason why girls miss school.
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Rachel and Marilla joke that the former's had 10 kids because she prefers pregnancy to menstruation.
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Menorrhagia—in other words, a bloodbath—is heavy bleeding or menstruation that lasts over seven days.
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Slowly, educational information about menstruation is starting to acknowledge trans men, many of whom have periods.
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In some parts of Nepal, for instance, women are confined to outdoor sheds during their menstruation.
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Many of them missed school due to fear of menstruation with lack of access to products.
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And that plays into so many patriarchal myths about women being dirty, that menstruation has toxins.
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Many women in space take hormonal birth control and skip the placebo days to suppress menstruation.
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Illness, pregnancy, old age, menstruation—all very personal things to talk about depending on the person.
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Be Honest but Mysterious versus Tell Him Graphic but Scientifically Accurate Fun Facts About Menstruation 17.
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On "black-ish," the show has dealt with police brutality, the presidential election and even menstruation.
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It is replaced weekly for three weeks, followed by a week off to allow for menstruation.
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The complicated laws of niddah — the prohibitions on intimacy during menstruation — are taught during one's engagement.
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Many religions observe rules around menstruation, and Hinduism places a special emphasis on purity and pollution.
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Until just a couple of years ago, the subject of menstruation wasn't discussed in mixed company.
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Hysterectomies were recommended for disabled women in institutions on the pretext they couldn't handle their menstruation.
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But because this event didn't involve ovulation, it was better described as withdrawal bleeding than menstruation.
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Educating both girls and boys about menstruation as a normal biological process is the first step.
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In children assigned female at birth, the treatment stops breast development and delays or stops menstruation.
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Some historians maintain that there was a very different attitude to menstruation than there is today, the smell of menstrual blood was considered erotic, and obvious menstruation was a sure way of knowing when a young woman was fertile, and an older woman no longer was.
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Lack of resources, clean water, menstrual hygiene products and generalized lack of education about menstruation has led to increase in gender discrimination, school absences impacting girls' education, child marriages (as the onset of menstruation or menarche often triggers marital relations), gender-based violence, and untreated health problems.
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A review of the PMS literature in 2012 didn't find any association between menstruation and negative mood.
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But the knowledge that they aren't reflective of women's experiences of menstruation is, unfortunately, not as ubiquitous.
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For most women, menstruation means trying to find the most effective way to avoid leaks and stains.
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The vast increase of menstruation talk in this country over the last few years can't be underestimated.
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Menstruation stigma is still a very real thing, especially true in places outside of the Western world.
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It's just one of the many, many funny things our bodies do in the name of menstruation.
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Women are not allowed in the house during menstruation, so they often engage in hard labor outdoors.
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" Activists like Paudel maintain that female menstruation rights have been "heavily ignored, heavily marginalized, heavily over-looked.
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So she decided to have an age-appropriate conversation about menstruation with him right then and there.
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On August 9, Nepal's Parliament passed a bill that would criminalize the banishment of women during menstruation.
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For female astronauts living on the International Space Station, dealing with menstruation can be a huge challenge.
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First off, even though menstruation produces buckets of blood per hour, don't worry about our well-being.
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The doctors gave me a shot to suspend menstruation while I underwent chemotherapy, but it didn't work.
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Though a monthly normalcy for around two billion people worldwide, menstruation rarely appears in American popular culture.
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To solve this issue, a new company created an innovative and gender-affirming solution: menstruation-friendly boxers.
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And we owe that freedom, in part, to women fighting on the front lines to destigmatize menstruation.
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All with the same mission: to address and remedy the country's complicated and complex attitudes towards menstruation.
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Even in so-called modern families, women do not enter into temple during menstruation cycle even now.
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"The available research at the moment" related to athletes and menstruation "is woefully inadequate," Dr. Rogers says.
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Just this June, another young woman was found dead in a menstruation hut, bitten by a snake.
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Each level of incarceration in New York has a different policy (or no policy) related to menstruation.
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But the offer — not the first — signals India's shift toward grappling with long-ignored challenges around menstruation.
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But often, Coder says, the person managing the facilities budget in an organization hasn't themselves experienced menstruation.
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Menstruation is still taboo in many countries around the world, where it's often considered embarrassing or shameful.
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And these policies may play into a decades-old prejudice that menstruation makes women unfit for work.
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"Menstruation is a natural process that should not create a barrier to a realization of human rights."
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Many women in the military, for instance, do choose to suppress menstruation during missions, according to the study.
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Period., a multimedia exhibition on view at Rojas + Rubensteen Projects, challenges common misconceptions about menstruation and women's bodies.
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In an interview with Broadly, she explained why it is "crucial" to provide people with education about menstruation.
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Therefore scientists and gynecologists look on difficult menstruation not only as a medical but also a social problem.
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In fact, students reported that stress and shame were the most common emotions that they associated with menstruation.
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In the Fukunaga-Palmer script, there are repeated references to menstruation designed to make the metaphor abundantly clear.
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After the rise of menstruation-related TSS cases in the 1980s, many manufacturers changed their ingredients, Dweck said.
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The company frequently refers to menstruation as the most "natural and normal" thing to happen to a woman.
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In the female-driven economy, insight from lived experiences — from menstruation to motherhood — can become lucrative business ideas.
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AND for every box purchased, donating a box of sustainable pads to girls who can't afford menstruation products. .
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Women's health app Clue surveyed 90,000 people from 190 countries to learn how the world thinks about menstruation.
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It is known as a menstruation hut, and Radhika must go there each time she has her period.
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The company even sells reusable stickers and kits to simulate real-life milestones like pimples, bruises, and menstruation.
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The subject of menstruation in sport is almost as taboo in the West as it is in Asia.
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Making menstruation more stressful is the fact that menstrual periods are often irregular for the first few years.
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Period cramps (dysmenorrhea), premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and diarrhea can also make menstruation unpleasant or challenging regardless of age.
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They were able to do this despite the cultural stigma associated with menstruation in many parts of India.
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In the case of menstruation apps, Varon noted that the majority use the narrative of motherhood and fertility.
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From Thinx's badass subway ads to tampon tax protests, women are fighting for the widespread normalization of menstruation.
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Menstruation marks the start of puberty, Mendle says, and early menstruators begin to develop adult physical traits younger.
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Scotland's initiative is seen as a way to contribute to a more open conversation about menstruation, reducing stigma.
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The outsize attention paid to products reduces menstruation to a hygiene issue when it should be much more.
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Kristen, who talks openly about slut-shaming and menstruation in class, is becoming the show's avatar for feminism.
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This group also disliked the idea of equating menstruation with womanhood, which they saw as reductive gender essentialism.
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The authors of that same report also feared that microgravity might increase the incidence of "retrograde menstruation" — i.e.
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Globally, menstruation can be highly stigmatized, leading to poor menstrual hygiene that can cause long-term health issues.
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After centuries of shame and stigma, some of the public taboo around menstruation seems to finally be lifting.
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Also, keep in mind, it may be difficult for a person to tell when their body has resumed regular menstruation ... it's common to have vaginal bleeding for 4 to 6 weeks following vaginal delivery (referred to as lochia) and thus, it may be difficult to differentiate lochia from menstruation. Yes.
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On Thursday, a woman and her children were found dead after being sequestered in a menstruation hut in Nepal.
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"Deaths are usually caused by smoke inhalation, snake bites (and) lack of basic health care during menstruation," he said.
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So, we commissioned six photographers to create a single image that captures what menstruation means to them right now.
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And recognizing that the ability to manage menstruation falls squarely at the intersection of health, economic, and justice policy.
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When it comes to addressing global health and education issues related to menstruation, communities share a common obstacle: stigma. .
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After the great musical menstruation misery of the early noughties, however, a splatter of funny period pop tracks appeared.
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She wanted to provide them with accurate information and dispel some of the fear surrounding menstruation in her culture.
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"They would detect menstruation because of the hormonal changes and because the actual menses has an odor," she said.
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Often taboo and hushed away, celebrities like Lena Dunham have put menstruation and disorders like endometriosis in the spotlight.
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Investigations using small samples of sports women have produced mixed messages as to how menstruation might affect athletic capacity.
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Their overwhelming association of menstruation with femininity is reflected in the predominant pink colour schemes and cutesy flower decorations.
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So it's worth asking Congress: When will the U.S. pass legislation on a national level to stop taxing menstruation?
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However, globally 1.25 billion women do not have access to a toilet during menstruation, according to the charity WaterAid.
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Female athletes, including the former tennis star Annabel Croft of Britain, have criticized the silence surrounding menstruation in sports.
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" One study showed that factory workers in Pakistan "missed up to three days' work per month due to menstruation.
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That is, she says, part of the problem—menstruation is a monthly expenditure that many people just can't afford.
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Rayka Zehtabchi became the first Iranian-American woman to win an Oscar, for a film about menstruation, no less.
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Though it is a highly sensitive topic, Project Soar distributes period kits and teaches girls how to manage menstruation.
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Some of the spaces are as tiny as a closet, walls made of mud or rock, basically menstruation foxholes.
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Through savvy marketing, Thinx linked its principal product, absorbent underwear, with a mission to break social taboos about menstruation.
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At the time, Lloyd said he asked for weekly updates of pregnant minors, which included their last menstruation date.
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She said it takes multiple training sessions to get them comfortable talking to students about their own menstruation experiences.
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"I knew so much more going into both menstruation and pregnancy than I did going into menopause," she writes.
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"Two massively stigmatized experiences -- menstruation and poverty -- intersect to create this bizarre and horrible form of poverty," she says.
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Today, some 60 million 10-year-old girls around the world stand at the threshold of adolescence and menstruation.
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Accounts of menstruation, childbirth, menopause and gender transition howl through the worlds of theater and television, memoir and art.
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The purpose of blood types, for example, is still unknown; likewise why menstruation is monthly, a frequency that seems inefficient.
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According to a 2011 study by market research firm Nielsen, only 12% of Indian women use sanitary pads during menstruation.
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That can be damaging in a region where taboos surrounding menstruation already exist, said Thérèse Mahon, the report's co-author.
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It may be caused by "retrograde menstruation" Doctors don't know exactly what causes endometriosis, or why certain women are affected.
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And at no point is menstruation treated like a sexual deterrent — it's actually a major source of the film's eroticism.
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In an era when female menstruation is slowly becoming less taboo, society still has a lot of work to do.
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Then, of course, there's the cost of purchasing tampons, pads, and other menstruation-related products, which can certainly add up.
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Yet, so many people — women included — are still so ashamed to talk about or otherwise acknowledge that menstruation even exists.
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Without the stereotypes, the menstruation, the struggles of motherhood, the occasionally deadly consequences of fertility, would we have our strength?
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We're a long way from menstruation equality, which makes Nevada's recent elimination of the "tampon tax" a critical step forward.
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Period tracking has long been a way to understand the correlation between menstruation and fertility for those trying to conceive.
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She is not even allowed to use the family toilet during menstruation, instead making a trip to a nearby river.
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According to UNESCO, one in ten adolescent girls across Africa misses school due to menstruation before eventually dropping out altogether.
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In many poor countries, girls lack access to period products, like tampons and pads, that help make menstruation more manageable.
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And there's a long history of dubious studies claiming outsize effects on voting, caused by everything from television to menstruation.
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The reality for her is that freebleeding means prioritising your own comfort over the shame others have constructed around menstruation.
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Their research also showed that, in the early luteal phase, before menstruation, we tend to be more focused and disciplined.
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It usually develops in women over 35, and it's benign, but can cause severe pain and intense bleeding during menstruation.
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At the conference, people and organizations around the world gave presentations on menstruation educational efforts for people of all genders.
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And some symptoms, like heavy bleeding or debilitating pain during menstruation, can indicate a more serious condition requiring medical attention.
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They often sit by themselves in their menstruation huts and wait for family members to slide them plates of food.
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MRK: I would blame it on the 1960s, but honestly, there are people today who don't understand how menstruation works.
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Most stories animated by Storybooth cover tough or taboo topics, like relationship violence, menstruation, bullying, and coming out as LGBTQ.
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"It must be emphasized that the pills, when properly taken, are not at all likely to disturb menstruation," he wrote.
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As news of the student's death spread on social media, Kenyans began to discuss the grave consequences of menstruation-shaming.
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But his experiments don't go down too well with his wife and family, for whom talking about menstruation is taboo.
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"I told parents that a girl will go into constant menstruation -- like endless bleeding -- if she gets cervical cancer," she says.
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The world needs more images of women looking capable, competent, and content during their period — because that's the reality of menstruation.
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Additionally, other conversations about menstruation center on the difficulties that many women experience, from fibroids, to endometriosis, and working through misdiagnoses.
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Putting menstruation, and the marginalization of it, into that context demonstrates a barrier to our ability to actually fulfill those ideals.
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If we could neutralize menstruation my hope is that could bring us toward more common ground between the two polarized sides.
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Other research has found that, for women, smoking marijuana decreased levels of key hormones and caused irregularities in ovulation and menstruation.
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Here's an example: Fadiman reads an email from a British art historian in her 20s, long afflicted with painful, irregular menstruation.
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The researchers also found that bacterial communities varied based on menstruation, and even what phase of their periods women were in.
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According to NPR, the organization believes that including the emoji will help to break the "taboo" of menstruation around the world.
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And let's not forget about the random pimples that pop up on our noses, courtesy of stress or good ol' menstruation.
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The most well known is the rhythm method, in which women count the days in their menstruation cycle to predict fertility.
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Brewed in a tea, yarrow has been said to induce menstruation and in skin lotions, it can help relieve dry skin.
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To this day, some men will say, as an insult, that women are "being a certain way" because of their menstruation.
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End of Sentence, the Oscar-winning documentary short about women in India's villages who don't have access to regular menstruation products.
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But in some parts of the world, the menstruation taboo can cost people their educations, their careers, and even their lives.
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But the challenges went beyond menstruation supplies to facilities and who should lead an effort to assist females with their periods.
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The Adventures Of Toni The Tampon, a fun and gender-inclusive coloring book about menstruation staring some very familiar period products.
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Some say women cannot be trusted to make sushi because of menstruation or because their hands are too small or warm.
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On the one hand, there's been a lot of progress now that menstruation—and all it entails—isn't quite so taboo.
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"In our hygiene club, we have learned how to make sanitary pads, and also teach our friends about menstruation," Esther says.
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Some believe that Enheduanna's reference to the lunar cycle, together with Inanna's destructive and creative force, is a metaphor for menstruation.
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MRI scans, the heart-rate analysis, the videos of movement, and the evidence of menstruation were not relevant to the criteria.
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The hormone estrogen can produce breast tissue and halt sperm production, and testosterone tends to stop menstruation and increase sex drive.
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The shift could also indirectly benefit cis gender women by increasing access to care and reducing stigma of menstruation, Hart added.
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All of the women in the study had gone through menopause, when menstruation stops and production of the hormone estrogen drops.
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The design, which has remained basically unchanged since, includes spaces to input menstruation dates, sexual activity, spotting, and other relevant information.
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Only a fifth of the students are girls and their progress is often erratic due to their workload and monthly menstruation.
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"I can't believe a film about menstruation just won an Oscar," said the 25-year-old director in her acceptance speech.
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International nonprofit WaterAid estimates that 48% of girls in Iran and 10% of girls in India believe menstruation is a disease.
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Stigma still surrounds menstruation; it's visible in the tampon tax and in how people talk (or, rather, don't talk) about it.
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Dr. Lawson said the key to successful period suppression begins with telling your doctor that you're interested in safely stopping menstruation.
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Actress Jada Pinkett Smith revealed that her husband, actor Will Smith, sometimes makes "insensitive" comments about their daughter Willow&aposs menstruation.
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One, "don't bring a bastard into this house," usually uttered as soon as menstruation began, the warning repeated over and over.
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Nor I am suggesting that women should be denied access to new methods of handling menstruation better suited to their needs.
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In 2006, a filmmaker named Giovanna Chesler tackled the surprisingly controversial subject in an hourlong documentary, Period: The End of Menstruation?
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But calls are growing to outlaw gender alignment surgery unless it is medically needed, for example, to help urination or menstruation.
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After she died, it was her guilt-ridden father-in-law who smashed apart the menstruation hut with his own hands.
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Endometriosis — the growth of uterine tissue outside the uterus — can cause severe pain and excessive bleeding during menstruation, among other problems.
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Menstruation pretty much point-blank sucks, and, as of now, there's no one-size-fits-all solution to why that is.
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But she has also cut off all of her hair and had to have uncomfortable conversations with her superiors about menstruation.
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We need to spread the word: menstruation is natural and manageable -- while it may also be painful, uncomfortable, or plain inconvenient.
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The shame and embarrassment that many women still feel is reflected in the proliferation of euphemisms for menstruation around the world.
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Many STIs, like HIV, don't transmit easily through oral sex (though the risk goes up with factors like cuts or menstruation).
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"The more that people talk about menstruation as a natural bodily function the more it will be destigmatized," Deo goes on.
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Starting in 2020, it will cover topics including same-sex relationships, transgender people, menstruation, sexual assault, forced marriage, pornography and sexting.
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She and Bloody Hour co-founder Dana Etgar hope to also address some concerns that the first event raised, about whether the bar should find a way to include members of the trans community, and how best to combat the idea that menstruation (or lack of menstruation) as a biological function is somehow a signifier of womanhood or femininity.
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Part of that is because menstruation has long been considered "abject," meaning it acts as a visceral reminder of the female body.
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Chelsea Clinton is advancing the conversation on menstruation and breastfeeding, two women's issues that are still met with stigmatization around the world.
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" Because menstruation is fundamental to most women's well-being, Tin says that "education is crucial in order to live a healthy life.
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"Menstruation-related symptoms cause a great deal of lost productivity, and presenteeism is a bigger contributor to this than absenteeism," he said.
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Some of her earlier work went viral and encouraged women of all ages to talk more freely about topics such as menstruation.
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The period paradox The stigma surrounding menstruation is difficult to overcome because it is something that most of us grew up with.
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Stan's encounter with It is wildly different and takes place in his temple's mikveh, where women bathe to purify themselves after menstruation.
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That idea spurred others, and from there she created her #manchoynomedoyasco series where she shows menstruation with glitter and more rainbow colors.
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It occurs when uterine tissue—which bleeds during menstruation—grows in other places in the body, most commonly in the pelvic organs.
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As your body gears up for menstruation, your hormone levels can fluctuate pretty dramatically, changing way more than just your breast size.
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However, there was still a lingering attitude that menstruation is a nuisance to be dealt with in whatever way is most convenient.
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A two-to-one ratio is recommended "because of time consuming factors related to clothing, menstruation, and anatomical differences," reads the report.
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Improper menstruation sanitation also has devastating health impacts, with 70 percent of all reproductive diseases in India caused by poor menstrual hygiene.
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In this moment, she broke the silence surrounding the taboo topic of menstruation and tampons, which many in China feel awkward discussing.
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The taxation of sanitary pads is a starting point of a much-needed conversation and deeper cultural change on menstruation and more.
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That's because periods are typically referred to as only a "women's issue" and most conversations about menstruation focus on women and girls.
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After a brief discussion, they agree that the menstruation rules will be void for as long as they are living in Bangalore.
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There are four videos in the series, with each addressing a different topic: beauty, breasts, menstruation, and a compilation of different issues.
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Talking openly and honestly about menstruation is really fucking important, whether it's on the track, in the pool, or on centre court.
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Gandhi also shined a spotlight on the work of photographer Rupi Kaur, whose photo series on menstruation was repeatedly removed from Instagram.
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During adolescence, factors such as menstruation, gender-based violence, and early pregnancy and marriage force many girls to drop out of school.
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Initially, the combination of health tracking app and developer tools was completely sex free, refusing to even acknowledge the existence of menstruation.
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That included things related to sleep, stress, food, alcohol, menstruation, and the weather (all of them are listed in the figure below).
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Menstruation and neck pain were the most significant, followed by tiredness, bright lights, loud noise, too much sleep, restless sleep, and odors.
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Turning an ocean wave red could signify menstruation, for example, since a more explicit period emoji didn't make the cut last year.
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Many ladies prefer to use a menstruation cup during their cycle, and Ruby Cup is offering a "buy one, give one" option.
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"From menstruation to pregnancy to postpartum, women are seen as some sort of monster out of grotesque art, even today," she said.
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Kenny Ethan Jones made a name for himself when he became the first transgender man to star in a campaign about menstruation.
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It is also common to skip school during menstruation, largely due to lack of toilets or safe places to change their pads.
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The so-called "physiology badge" features a cartoon character named Seiri Chan, a symbol of menstruation in the world's third-largest economy.
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The unique balance of hormones you experience during menstruation and the follicular phase may cause an increase in your energy, Vitti says.
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The illegal custom, known as "Chhaupadi," stems from a centuries-old Hindu taboo that considers women and girls as unclean during menstruation.
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If they're going to get it, it usually happens anytime between ovulation (day 14 of their cycle) to the onset of menstruation.
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Last year's Blood Bitch has done much the same, even with its themes of menstruation, horror films, and the Virginia Woolf novel Orlando.
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Women experiencing a false pregnancy have presented with every sign of pregnancy—from a distended belly, to swollen breasts, to cessation of menstruation.
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The 2011 Nielsen study found that more than 30% of girls interviewed in northern India dropped out of school after they started menstruation.
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Then there's the latest crop of emerging underwear companies, and they're set on winning the hearts of women by designing menstruation-friendly underwear.
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To date, the group has conducted educational workshops for more than 300,000 students, teaching girls and boys that menstruation is natural, not shameful.
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The show tackles some of the country's most pervasive problems, including stigma around menstruation, child marriage, female genital mutilation, and access to education.
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The period-friendly startup — which sells care packages that feature tampons, pads and more — is known for its viral advertisements centered on menstruation.
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The videos focus on three main topics that, according to misguided popular opinion, keep girls from being successful coders: boobs, beauty and menstruation.
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After all, menstruation is a recurrent feature in most women's lives, and female athletes don't stop being athletes when they get their period.
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However, some women with MRKH do have a small portion of their uterus, and blood can collect and become trapped there during menstruation.
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Indeed, Chicago's work has been fundamental in bringing themes like women's history, childbirth, and menstruation into the art world and larger cultural conversations.
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If you look at how menstruation been written about in history, it's been written about by men who have a pretty biased view.
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Many cultures around the world have traditions and rituals around a girl's first menstruation, but some can leave girls and women feeling shunned.
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Ignorance surrounding menstruation is far from confined to China, however, and periods remain a taboo and sensitive topic in societies around the world.
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Whether you were afflicted with a mental illness, menstruation, or werewolves, you could safely blame the moon for the chaos in your life.
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Now a growing number of advocates, entrepreneurs and female lawmakers are challenging the taboo, talking about menstruation publicly (and, yes, in mixed company).
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" When she asked why he had menstruation products handy, he just said, "I've been hiking with women for years, you think I'm stupid?
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Apple launched menstruation tracking in its Health app back in 2015, and other apps (like Clue) can also share data to Apple's HealthKit.
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The camera's always rolling, after all — there's no time to be caught off guard, even by an unexpected, menstruation-related red carpet moment.
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Pad Man has started a dialogue, in India and beyond, and opened the door for conversations about menstruation and women's health and comfort.
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For instance, it's recommended that premenopausal women take more than twice as much iron as men because menstruation ups your need for iron.
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Where can you find educational material about wet dreams and menstruation in a bingeable format that's actually fun to talk about with friends?
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"We just want to celebrate and start talking about menstruation in a positive way, rather than the negativity which has shrouded the cycle."
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While some animals react to periods more obviously, Broadly sought to investigate exactly how intuitive household pets are when it comes to menstruation.
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Ironically, several people seemed to illustrate her point by vocalizing just how much they were grossed out by her discussing menstruation so publicly.
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When I first approached our headmaster about this idea, seven years ago when people really weren't talking about [menstruation], his response was, Yes!
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The vast majority of venture capitalists—90 percent, by one estimate—are men, and menstruation isn't typically high on their list of concerns.
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It only causes physical harms, ranging from lingering pain, loss of sensation, infections, urinary problems, sexual dysfunction, and complications during menstruation and childbirth.
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Menstruation means missing school; Chaodza feels too ashamed of her makeshift pad to show her face as she battles days of heavy bleeding.
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These norms prevent women and girls from having access to accurate knowledge to even know what menstruation is, let alone manage it effectively.
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Opponents say it relies on shock value, reinforces stereotypes about women and menstruation being "unclean," and unethically portrays a girl with a disability.
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They are confined to a small structure, called a menstruation hut, where women are expected to sleep every night, even during Himalayan winters.
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The company, called Pyramid Seven, hopes to include transgender men and gender-nonconforming people in the conversation around menstruation through its inclusive designs.
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Femme International provides sustainable menstrual cups to girls in developing countries, while also educating communities about menstruation to dispel stigma around the subject.
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"Lemonade" is less a dramatization than a daydream, infused with black magic, embracing — if only notionally — African tribalism, science fiction, menstruation and witchcraft.
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Her father talked her mom into funding her tampon purchases, and that was the last time menstruation was ever discussed in her family.
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Last year, a campaign called #HappyToBleed brought Indian women together in calling out discrimination against menstruation and its condemnation by some religious beliefs.
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Menstruation is never absent from the many sports in which women compete, but for the most part it has remained a taboo topic.
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In the last decade, the difficulties women and girls across the globe face during menstruation have inspired a raft of grass-roots campaigns.
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Stigma about menstruation often undermines proper use, and a woman's fear of inadvertently revealing she is menstruating remains a distraction and a burden.
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Inside the Outbreak For many female health workers on the front line in China, even things like menstruation have become an occupational hazard.
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It starts at menstruation (phase one), followed by the follicular phase (phase two), ovulation (phase three), and finally the luteal phase (phase four).
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Basic public health services can provide support and information on some of the issues associated with menstruation, including premenstrual syndrome, dysmenorrhea and endometriosis.
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But because the other symptoms that come with implantation are similar to your usual menstruation, it can be difficult to differentiate the two.
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End of Sentence," exclaimed, "I'm not crying because I'm on my period … I can't believe a film about menstruation just won an Oscar!
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One answer may be that not enough military women and their health providers even know that hormonal contraceptives used continuously will suppress menstruation.
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We'll journey through what's normal and not, how discharge changes with menstruation, birth control, and transitioning—and when you should see a doctor.
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She explains that it occurs when the gonadotropin hormones involved in menstruation and ovulation are disrupted in the pituitary gland of the brain's hypothalamus.
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Close to a quarter of all adolescent girls drop out of school in India, partly as a result of their inability to manage menstruation.
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Here, Messager takes as subject free-flowing breasts, uteruses, and menstruation, pushing her ongoing artistic probe of the female body from outside and within.
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There's no scientific consensus regarding why human menstruation is so damn bloody, but one idea suggests that the bleeding may be to prevent complications.
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There actually aren't a ton of mentions of menstruation throughout recorded history, probably because men were the ones in charge of writing things down.
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Trans teen Ethan Lopez penned an essay for Sex, Etc about just how problematic it is to portray menstruation as a female-only experience.
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As much as the public conversation around menstruation has improved in recent years, there's still a lot we don't know and don't talk about.
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In another, the men offer a stoned, close read of the lyrics to the Girls' song "Tighten Up," and are perplexed by menstruation references.
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According to a February report by NPR, Plan International believes that the emoji will help to break the "taboo" of menstruation around the world.
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In a cheeky poem accompanying the photo, Clemmer writes about getting their first period and how menstruation is still a traumatic monthly experience today.
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Clemmer is the creator of the Instagram account and coloring book Toni the Tampon, which use a tampon character to help shatter menstruation stigma.
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Menstruation. It's a reality that 50% of the populous experiences but a topic that doesn't get a lot of discussion — especially in tech circles.
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About 1 in 4,500 newborn girls have this condition, although it's often not diagnosed until puberty, when a lack of menstruation leads to testing.
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Hence, history records a fairly detailed litany of Mary's pregnancy symptoms: Menstruation had stopped, her breasts were swollen, she was nauseated in the morning.
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And August 14, she smashed taboos about menstruation by openly admitting that her stomach hurt because she was on her period during the race.
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Once the women in the trial are transplanted with the uterus, they wait to recover and achieve menstruation, usually about four weeks from transplant.
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There are also an extended cycle birth control pills, like Seasonique or Seasonale, both of which are designed to allow menstruation every three months.
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She had a modestinternet following when she uploaded a photo to Instagram of herself lying in bed, menstruation bloodstains on her clothes and sheets.
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In addition the company's one-star reviews on Facebook include reports of severe bruising, weight gain, sagging skin, increased cellulite, nausea, and menstruation changes.
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"If they do sense menstruation, it would be possible they change behavior, but there has been no research into the subject," said Dr. Breitweiser.
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Basal body temperature readings and monthly menstruation data feed into an algorithm that tells users whether or not they should be having unprotected sex.
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Poor girls in developed countries use similar solutions to women in developing regions to cope with menstruation — and they risk infection while doing so.
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Each year, less than 1 out of every 100,000 people contracts toxic shock syndrome, and not all of those cases are related to menstruation.
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According to a United Nations study, one out of three girls in South Asia knew nothing about menstruation prior to getting their first period.
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I originally was kind of skeptical about it, because [menstruation] is an uncomfortable subject for anybody to talk about, let alone a transgender male.
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Menstruation is always pitched as this awful inconvenience that we have to militantly arbitrate, but it's actually your body doing something powerful and important.
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After all, there are around 355 million women of menstruation age in India, of which the vast majority don't use disposable sanitary pads (yet).
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Thinx launched a new series of ads starring transgender model Sawyer DeVuyst — making it the first menstruation ad campaign to feature a trans man.
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A political scientist specializing in Indian activism tells Broadly that the internalised notion of menstruation as unclean is deeply rooted in the Hindu faith.
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In other cases, because malnutrition and trauma can cause menstruation to cease, women did not realize they were expecting until it was too late.
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To dispel this myth, UNICEF partnered with the Indonesian Council of Islamic Scholars to write a guidance book on menstruation according to Islamic principles.
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For centuries, around the world, menstruation has been treated as a source of shame, rather than as a normal, healthy part of women's lives.
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I know menstruation is not the most common thing to be passionate about, but my passion for periods comes from a very personal place.
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Various platelet disorders can also result in heavy menstruation, including immune thrombocytopenia, or ITP, a platelet deficiency that can occur after a viral infection.
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A few months ago, the feminine hygiene brand Thinx ran its first television ad, called MENstruation, which depicted an alternate reality where men menstruate.
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"The teachers had a lot of inhibitions and believed the myths themselves," said Bharathy Tahiliani, a rights campaigner who drafted the menstruation lesson plans.
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Following a campaign by girls' rights charity Plan International for a menstruation-themed emoji, Unicode Consortium also introduced a new "drop of blood" icon.
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At the same time, women are increasingly willing to discuss health issues that were previously taboo, like menstruation, menopause and perimenopause, fertility, and depression.
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More shows and movies are beginning to challenge the idea that menstruation is something to be ashamed of and standing up to the taboo.
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Chella Quint, who runs a campaign called Period Positive, encouraging shame-free conversations about menstruation, has only recently freed herself from that psychological trap.
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If we are to achieve true gender equality, we need to tackle everything that contributes to the discrimination and marginalization of women -- including menstruation.
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For centuries, women and girls have quietly managed their menstruation as best they can, often while fulfilling demanding roles in their families and communities.
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But, according to Guidone, recent research has questioned this by concluding that, while many women experience retrograde menstruation, only some are affected by endometriosis.
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If the military's trend holds for female astronauts, they may look to NASA to provide some information on the best forms of menstruation-suppressing contraception.
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Periods can be unpredictable Irregular periods are not uncommon, especially in the early stages of experiencing menstruation or as a woman approaches menopause, Villavicencio said.
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"Menstruation shouldn't stop education—and with access to safe period products and clean water, girls would have one less barrier to gender equality," she said.
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It happens when endometrium tissue (which lines a person's uterus and is shed during menstruation) grows outside of the uterus and attaches to other organs.
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On International Women's Day 2017, Meghan Markle penned an essay for Time about the global need to address menstruation as a matter of gender equity.
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"I think many people, men and women, are probably a little uncomfortable thinking or talking about menstruation," said Representative Grace Meng, Democrat of New York.
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The survey gathered a lot of interesting insight on what these women think about their periods, and the different ways in which they experience menstruation.
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That's why she came up with "menstruation care packs" that she distributes to students at her school who may get a surprise period during class.
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There's all these kind of myths around what menstruation is; the common misconception, especially from the men, is that it's an illness or it's impure.
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Activists have long pressured lawmakers for a law to punish those who force women to practice Chhaupadi, a ritual rooted in Hindu taboos about menstruation.
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Ultimately, Bruinvels said one of her goals is to bring discussions about menstruation to the forefront, alongside routine training topics such as nutrition and recovery.
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The types of information advertisers learn about are physical symptoms you could be experiencing, women's health information like menstruation or pregnancy, or prescriptions you're taking.
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As the ovaries curb production of estrogen and progesterone, menstruation stops, and women can experience symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats and vaginal dryness.
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The lack of sanitary supplies can also stop women from walking around the camps because of the stigma surrounding menstruation and the risk of leakages.
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Plan International called for Uganda to reduce the cost of sanitary pads, ensure schools had separate girls' toilets and introduce sex education to destigmatize menstruation.
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They say menstruation needs to be destigmatized in society, and men and women alike need to be educated about the potential dangers of the tradition.
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Five months after the transplant, the recipient showed no signs of rejecting the uterus, and for the first time in her life, she experienced menstruation.
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In countries where cloths or pads are typically used during menstruation, insertion -- something tampon users are familiar with -- "is not a common thing," said Wirseen.
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Whether it be tied to menstruation, fertility, lunar cycles, or DNA, the image is relentlessly invoked and doubly heightened by pulsating rhythms and jarring brass.
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His infamous feud with Fox News commentator Megyn Kelly was full of gender-based insults and allusions to menstruation that turned off some female voters.
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This presidential campaign has been anything but boring, from the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server, to penis and menstruation jabs from Donald Trump.
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Pappas also told Bustle that the hashtags are about more than just menstruation — they're also about breaking down stereotypes regarding what femininity should look like.
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Today, Thinx launched a new series of ads starring transgender model Sawyer DeVuyst — making it the first menstruation ad campaign to feature a trans man.
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"There's avoidance of talking openly about sexual matters, and [menstruation] falls in there, with a special twist because it involves blood and tampons," she says.
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When menstruation is treated as normal, it becomes more than a nuisance, a punch line or a weapon wielded to keep women in their place.
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Perimenopause means "around menopause" — menopause being the cessation of menstruation — and for most women, it begins in their 40s, though for some it starts earlier.
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Medical conditions that affect female infertility include:Endometriosis, which occurs when lesions grow on the outside of the uterus and can cause severe pain during menstruation.
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The admission drew gasps from fellow students, who were discussing menstruation at their school in Kheware Mehaj, a small village about 150 km from Mumbai.
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In some areas, the restrictions extend to girls reading, writing or touching books during menstruation out of fear of angering Saraswati, the goddess of education.
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In many countries, girls are kept at home for one week every month because they lack the means to look after themselves during their menstruation.
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In many parts of the world, menstruation is completely taboo and girls have no idea what is happening to them as their first period begins.
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During this time, women are often confined to a small structure, known locally as a "menstruation hut," where they are expected to sleep every night.
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And if you're experiencing severe pain, check in with your doctor — some health conditions, including endometriosis and irritable bowel system, can flare up during menstruation.
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Graphic: Fitbit'Quick Replies' messagingIf you're more interested in messaging than menstruation, Fitbit's new Quick Replies feature should help, but only if you're an Android smartphone user.
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Directed by: Rayka Zehtabchi and Melissa Berton The Gist: Women in a rural village outside of New Delhi, India gather to fight the stigma of menstruation.
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Yet—despite the potential to be struck by a full-body cringe—I have a lot of affection for songs devoted to menstruation, periods, and PMS.
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The idea that menstruation makes women "crazy" has persisted since Ancient Greek times, when Hippocrates suggested women's wombs wandered around their abdomens, causing depression and madness.
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But others share the views of Li Huimin, 30, a project manager, who took Chinese medicine to regulate her hormones and irregular menstruation after a miscarriage.
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But part of the problem here is that we still think of menstruation as an embarrassing thing, instead of the natural bodily function that it is.
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"This means many have to find somewhere dark to get privacy, which is both undignified and dangerous, and is particularly difficult during menstruation," the spokesperson said.
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This reverts the body to a pre-pubescent like state, where pregnancy is not possible as the ovaries temporarily shut down and menstruation does not occur.
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For humanitarian charities such as WaterAid, It can be challenging to convince people of the truth about menstruation—but that doesn't mean they're not making progress.
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They said you can't use 'menses,' 'menstruation' or 'period,' and I fought to say 'period' and that ended up in Newsweek or Time just that year.
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After the first debate, Mr. Trump famously said that Ms. Kelly had "blood coming out of her wherever," a comment widely interpreted as referring to menstruation.
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Such initiatives are important, as stigma around menstruation also prevents women and girls from seeking help from aid agencies when they are affected by health issues.
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The combination oral contraceptive pill — the birth control pill with estrogen commonly referred to as "the pill" — is a common way to manage menstruation-related concerns.
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You're talking about menstruation; if you're talking about bladder incontinence; if you're talking about fertility — these are things that we keep on the hush as women.
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The studies, which will allow users to opt-in to give permission for the company to collect data, will focus on measuring mobility, menstruation and hearing.
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Five months after the transplant, Ejzenberg's team wrote, the uterus showed no signs of rejection, ultrasound scans were normal, and the recipient was having regular menstruation.
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That's why Twitter users are chiming in with #TweetYourPeriod and #RedSummer to break down the stigma surrounding menstruation by live-tweeting what happens during their periods.
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Not one of them takes menstruation into consideration when they think about the people who are affected by these laws and rules and regulations and policies.
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The proportion of students who considered menstruation normal went up from 81 percent to 97 percent for girls and 61 percent to 89 percent for boys.
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Because too many of them have opted to focus on providing women with new products, failing to substantively fight the core problem surrounding menstruation: cultural stigma.
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Menstruation works through a complex hormonal interaction between the brain, ovaries and the uterus — position does not affect any of these structures nor their hormonal signaling.
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Women are born with a set number of eggs, and depletion of this egg supply contributes to the end of menstruation and the start of menopause.
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The muscular uterine wall — the myometrium, where cramps take place — is lined with the endometrium, which thickens during the cycle and then is shed during menstruation.
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Women who experienced forced sexual initiation tended to have higher rates of unwanted first pregnancy or abortion, pelvic inflammatory disease, and problems with ovulation or menstruation.
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I had the privilege of a decent class on the body and menstruation in grade six, and access to a public library with a wonderful librarian.
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Indeed, menstruation has been taboo for centuries past (and still kind of are, if the hateful comments directed at this vaginal knitting artist are any indication).
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On top of gendered responses to women and pain, she says, talking about the disease involves discussing a plethora of taboo subjects: sex, menstruation, and fertility.
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Similarly, menstruation and PMS are quickly corralled as reason for anything from making a mistake to having an opinion, our fundamental ineptitude usually being the punchline.
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She also visited and supported the Myna Mahila Foundation in Mumbai, an organization that helps solve the menstruation challenges many women and girls in the community face.
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When she and her husband decided to start trying for a baby in 2016, Rogan was officially diagnosed with hypothalamic amenorrhea, a condition in which menstruation stops.
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As a result, endometriosis — which affects one in ten people born with uteruses worldwide — can cause severe pelvic pain, especially during menstruation and during or after sex.
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"We shouldn't be embarrassed by breastfeeding or menstruation, but we should be ashamed that women are suffering in silence because too many people refuse to speak out."
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That includes the period-tracking apps Flo and Eve, as well the Facebook group (There Will Be Blood Period Chat) hosted by the menstruation product company Natracare.
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During this time, generally the eight to 10 years before menopause (which typically happens in your early 50s), your body preps for the the menstruation finish line.
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Well-child visits should include questions about menstruation, exercise and eating habits to help assess whether teen girls may be at risk for developing female athlete triad.
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In her new book, It's Only Blood, Swedish journalist Anna Dahlqvist ambitiously sets out to explore menstruation on a global level, particularly where shame intersects with poverty.
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While some menstruation changes are normal, a drastic shift from your normal (whatever that may be), can be a sign that something more may be going on.
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For one thing, many of us use hormonal birth control to regulate our menstruation cycles, or to reduce severe menstrual symptoms such as cramps or heavy bleeding.
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In 0003, she co-founded PERIOD, a nonprofit organization that distributes sanitary products to people in need, aiming to de-stigmatize menstruation through social and legal change.
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"It's essentially a pocket guidebook with the answers to all the burning questions that girls might have about the female body, menstruation, sex and more," said Baeva.
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Centered on this idea, Knight and Varnam argue that along with body temperature, pulse rate, respiration rate, and blood pressure, menstruation is a central indicator of health.
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So by offering new toilets and access to products, we gain permission to talk to girls, boys, parents, teachers and the community about menstruation, stigma and taboos.
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Today the students - both male and female - are part of Thiruvananthapuram's collective effort to "green the red" - a sustainable menstruation project promoted by the city's civic authority.
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But the researchers say that this information could end up being quite useful for science because the rodents might be a good, cheap model for human menstruation.
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Right now, scientists can use drugs to induce menstruation in lab mice, but that's not particularly useful for researchers who want to study a healthy, natural cycle.
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Childbirth and menstruation were the two experiences that gave her a twinge of joy, she confided, because they provided intense feeling and physical evidence of her being.
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Dima's mother said she fretted for days, unsure whether it was caused by some trauma during the arrest, or, as it turned out, the girl's first menstruation.
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I was struck immediately by the fact that one of the most significant threads woven throughout the Radical Women exhibition is the reference to childbirth and menstruation.
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It is possible to interpret these bans as being a way of acknowledging the pain and discomfort many women experience during menstruation and therefore lightening their workload.
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In some rural areas, cultural practices like the banishing of women and girls to huts during menstruation can make the very natural experience a very stigmatized one.
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Not only is the curriculum intended to reduce stigma, she explains, but actually encourage young men to advocate for the rights of their classmates who experience menstruation.
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I walked through playful erotic landscape, abstract menstruation, scientific existentialism and many other amalgamated concepts that I had no idea could be in the same room together.
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" Menstruation awakens her to potential motherhood, spurring her to finally rebuff the sleazy patriarch, shoving him out of her room, upon which "my rage turned to joy.
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Pads are not easily available in many rural parts of the country, but taboos around menstruation mean that women are ashamed to openly wash and dry cloth.
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More recently, a documentary about menstruation won an Academy Award ("I'm not crying because I'm on my period or anything," the director said in her acceptance speech).
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But campaigners say Bogati's death shows that women and girls are still being isolated because of a normal bodily function and the stigma surrounding menstruation remains deadly.
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While they aren't for everyone, they are catching on among some women who say the alternatives make menstruation more hygienic, less costly, more discreet and less wasteful.
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While menstruation is the most natural thing in the world, it often keeps girls out of school and the workplace, with devastating consequences that can last generations.
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He also told an interviewer that, during the debate, Ms. Kelly had "blood coming out of her wherever" — a comment widely interpreted as a reference to menstruation.
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Last month, Amba Bohara, 35, and two of her sons — ages 7 and 9 — apparently suffocated in a menstruation hut after lighting a fire to stay warm.
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But with the conversation about menstruation ever on the bloody increase, at least we're making some strides away from the animal shed and opium derivatives of yesteryear.
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NASA doesn't usually comment publically on the health needs of their astronauts because of privacy concerns, but hopefully, at least internally, discussions surrounding menstruation in space are ongoing.
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One of the purposes of her trip was to learn more about the stigma surrounding menstruation and lack of access to proper sanitation for young girls in India.
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If we go back to the Romans, we look at Pliny the Elder who is cited in anything to do with menstruation because his views are so... remarkable.
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"To really understand this, you have get into what this specifically means to this person and in this relationship," said psychologist Dr. Amy Altenhaus of Fellows's psychic menstruation.
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Over the past five years I have worked with Columbia University and the International Rescue Committee researching the harsh realities around menstruation facing displaced people around the world.
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The doctors told her it was her endometriosis (a common disorder that leads to unusually painful menstruation) but she knew what that felt like, and this wasn't it.
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Those cuts are restored in the new edition—as are her conversations with the censor, who was particularly scandalised by the description of menstruation on the battle front.
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Many of these problems would be alleviated if men's bathrooms were made with menstruation in mind, but we may still be a long way off from that change.
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On Friday afternoon, the 40-year-old actress retweeted an article by HelloGiggles which encouraged parents to throw period parties for their daughters when they first experience menstruation.
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Now, Toni and an accompanying cast of menstruation-themed friends are starring in a 20-page coloring book called The Adventures of Toni the Tampon, illustrated by Clemmer.
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Dives tells Mashable via phone that her interest in menstruation-inspired art grew out of her experience with depression and anxiety, which she says worsened during her period.
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"Pioneering Period Policy: Valuing Natural Cycles in the Workplace," was organized by Coexist and hosted by Alexandra Pope, the author of Wild Genie: The Healing Power of Menstruation.
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Interviews of girls in refugee camps in Myanmar revealed they rarely were educated about menstruation, leading to distress and embarrassment at the onset of bleeding, the report found.
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Even in urban centers like Delhi, taboos around menstruation prevent women from talking about problems and then trying to hide anything related to their period, including sanitary pads.
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She also stressed the need for aid groups to coordinate work on menstruation needs and for identification of which group should take the lead in addressing the issue.
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"Involving men and boys makes us think about the complexities of menstruation and the stigma, on that issue, and that messaging addresses social norms and behaviors," Bosire said.
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After he murdered 21-year-old Lynda Healy in Washington, for example, investigators initially assumed that the blood in her bed was either from a nosebleed or menstruation.
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The 25-minute documentary addresses the cultural stigma of menstruation in a rural Indian village, where most women do not have access to sanitary pads or menstrual products.
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Menstruation is so taboo in India that for many women and girls, including university-educated ones like Paravi, being on the rag is a recurring, real-life nightmare.
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In the US, students may learn about menstruation in their fifth grade or middle school health classes, but the curriculum is usually purely focused on biology, says Springer.
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Yamakoshi adds that Ethiopia has seen similar success with period education reform, particularly with schools that started co-ed clubs to discuss issues that affect girls, including menstruation.
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There has also been a flurry of recent studies indicating that certain cocktails of ovarian hormones can make women feel lousy, particularly a week or so before menstruation.
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Dr. Alan Shewmon, an emeritus professor of Neurology at UCLA, writes in an appendix to the court case that menstruation indicates Jahi's pituitary gland is functional and active.
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Britain pledged 2 million pounds ($2.6 million) to organizations working to end "period poverty" by helping women and girls access sanitary products and tackle the stigma around menstruation.
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Still, scholars are not sure why the menstruation taboo is so strong in western Nepal, where countless villages, across an area comprising hundreds of miles, still practice it.
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The mechanism remains unclear, but women who stopped having periods for a time after giving birth also reduced their risk, and breast-feeding prolongs the pause in menstruation.
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For example, adolescent girls and women face many problems - from a lack of sanitary towels during menstruation to sexual violence in camps and poor healthcare for expectant mothers.
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In addition to being a great gift for eco-conscious women who want to move away from traditional menstruation products, Thinx is also a great company to support.
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Apart from the physical danger and mental health consequences of sleeping in the menstruation huts, the girls also faced strong social stigma when they were on their periods.
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"Whether directly or indirectly, [menstruation] actually affects everybody...and yet people who menstruate are unduly punished, because of something that's completely normal and natural," Femme International's Rubli said.
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The lack of women in medicine meant the medical canon about menstruation was first created by literally the least informed people: those who had never had a period.
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Doctors ask women to recall the first date of their last menstruation and then use that to guess when she may have ovulated and when she became pregnant.
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"You've heard the duchess herself on the subject of periods, of menstruation, being very matter-of-fact," said Anne McElvoy, a journalist who was chairwoman of the panel.
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Peer educators in a dozen communities give talks and perform sketches about sex, menstruation and pregnancy, and say they are on hand to educate, advise, and comfort their classmates.
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But for centuries, teachings from various world religions, including Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, have said that menstruation is both physically and spiritually unclean, forcing menstruating people to be isolated.
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Trans men and gender-nonconforming people also have periods, but their experiences of menstruation are notably absent in these images, and often left out of conversations about periods overall.
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The film, which is up for best documentary short at this year's Oscars, aims to fight the stigma of menstruation, starting in a rural village outside of Delhi, India.
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Procter & Gamble announced Monday that it would remove the Venus symbol for women from the packaging of Always menstruation products to be more inclusive to transgender and nonbinary customers.
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Mebrahtu works in partnership with the nonprofit Dignity Period, which has conducted educational workshops for more than 300,000 students, teaching girls and boys that menstruation is natural, not shameful.
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In pre-clinical trial data provided by Sfakianoudis, 643 of 264 menopausal women saw menopause reversed, with hormone levels returning to those associated with fertility, and menstruation beginning again.
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The teen has since privated his account after going viral, presumably to stop the swarm of people correcting him on anatomy and his backwards view of menstruation in general.
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As anyone who has strange stomach issues around their period knows all too well, regular menstruation can throw our internal rhythms way off — and our appetite is no exception.
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The inability to cope with menstruation often keeps girls out of school, with girls in Kenya missing an average of five days of school per month due to periods.
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"As much silence as exists around menstruation, there seems to be even more silence around other types of vaginal bleeding—for which there are many types," she tells Broadly.
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"I still believe that, largely, menstruation is toxicity leaving the body," she explains in her controversial video, which saw heavy criticism from some viewers and eating disorder charity Beat.
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She agreed with the researchers that aid workers should ask displaced girls and women about their menstruation needs, and not just about whether they prefer cloth or disposable pads.
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The family practices Chhaupadi, a centuries-old custom in the remote west of Nepal in which women, considered "impure" during menstruation, are sequestered for the extent of their periods.
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Access to menstruation products and sanitary facilities is so limited In Karamoja, a remote region in northeastern Uganda, that girls miss 3 days of school per month, on average.
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"It is good for boys to know about periods too so that they can teach their sisters," says Dennis, 14, who has even penned his own songs about menstruation.
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With so little concrete information about how menstruation affects sportswomen, it is impossible to know exactly what impact it had on Ms Fu's performance in the pool in Rio.
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If you're not ready to take the long-term plunge into freedom from menstruation, Yen says another option is to ask your doc for a progesterone-only pill (Norethindrone).
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Not only do they talk about vaginas and their periods like they're no big deal, but they also crack some seriously sarcastic jokes about men being afraid of menstruation.
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She said the girls clearly wanted to discuss puberty with their parents, especially their mothers, but commonly complained that discussions about menstruation went straight to warnings about avoiding pregnancy.
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They're irritable when berry supplies are short, climate change makes them cranky, and there are theories that they prefer women because of menstruation, but that has since been disproven.
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She said about 25 percent of women who use this method will experience induced amenorrhea — or the absence of menstruation — after one year, and 50 percent after two years.
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The latest spot offers a twist: Schoolchildren of all ages recite the Pledge of Allegiance over audio of Mr. Trump calling Mexican immigrants "rapists" and making comments about menstruation.
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It includes guidance for men, teaching them that when picking up supplies during crises or emergencies, they should not forget menstrual hygiene products for family members who experience menstruation.
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She writes in these six essays about the effect of her father's alcoholism on her family, her unsuccessful attempts to have a baby, menstruation, body image and sexual violence.
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"Noble absolutely accommodates our students during menstruation, including bathroom trips whenever the student needs one," said Constance Jones Brewer, the president of Noble Network, in a statement to Vox.
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She explored menstruation ("Menses"), coverage of the AIDS epidemic ("Snow Job") and how women view their sexuality compared with male images of women and sex ("No No Nooky T.V.").
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Then fluency fast-forwards and children start picking up long chapter books even though they might not yet be ready for wizards, menstruation or the humiliations of middle school.
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In India, menstruation is rarely discussed openly and this can leave girls and women ignorant about the issue and subject to social exclusion due to age-old social beliefs.
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Researchers said fostering open discussions would help women and girls differentiate between normal bleeding, like menstruation, and abnormal bleeding, which could be caused by sexually transmitted diseases or cancers.
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The menstrual leave policy was introduced after the organization launched a large research project called The Waratah Project, exploring how women collectively think about menstruation and menopause, Crooks said.
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These women are more likely to develop painful pelvic conditions, such as inflammatory diseases or endometriosis, experience unwanted first pregnancies or abortions, and have problems with ovulation or menstruation.
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In the late 1700s, German scientists blamed it on the trauma of menstruation, a theory that had to be discarded when it was determined that most arsonists were men.
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This new addition comes on the heels of Plan International U.K.'s campaign for a period emoji following a 2017 survey by the organization that highlighted the ongoing stigma and shame around menstruation among girls and women in the U.K. The results prompted Plan to create a proposal for a period-pants emoji (we all have our period pants), which was backed by almost 55,000 voters, in an effort to normalize the conversation around menstruation.
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I'm hesitant in thinking adding healthcare apps along with menstruation tracking is enough to make Fitbit a device appealing enough for users to forget the shortcomings baked into the smartwatch.
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She photographs women comfortably being themselves, and is known for capturing body hair, curves, stretch marks, and other aspects of womanhood (like menstruation) that are often ignored in mainstream media.
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"Removing the stresses associated with menstruation can help girls and boys adjust and contribute better to the world around them," UNICEF's regional director Jean Gough told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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The study doesn't just focus on menstruation — it also discusses other causes, such as bleeding after childbirth or during miscarriage, or bleeding due to any medical issues such as endometriosis.
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In many cases, doctors think it has something to do with "retrograde menstruation," when blood containing endometrial cells flows backward into the abdominal cavity rather than out of the body.
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From working to destigmatize menstruation to taking to the stage at the Women's March on Washington D.C., Monáe has long made her stance known, especially regarding issues that affect women.
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So it's time we all take a leaf from Janelle Monáe's book and normalize menstruation so that we don't have to keep sneaking those damn tampons out of our bags.
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" Gongora urged people to talk openly about menstruation so that girls will understand it both as an "inconvenience and a gift" and boys will never "recoil from the word tampon.
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Steph Gongora doesn't consider herself as part of the freebleeding movement — but she's glad that sharing a video of her blood stain encouraged a conversation about the stigma surrounding menstruation.
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The phenomenon has been noted and commented on for centuries, and various causes have been proposed, from "suppressed menstruation" to an intense emotional reaction to illness—a kind of hysteria.
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Calm down, you're not actually angry about the gender pay gap or the systematic closure of domestic violence refuges under austerity—menstruation has just destroyed your capacity for rational thought.
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"I share a little torn towel with my 16-year-old daughter during our menstruation because buying actual sanitary wear from shops is very expensive " she told Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Menopause is commonly diagnosed after women cease menstruation for one year, which means the study may have categorized some women as going through this transition who had already completed it.
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The company behind it, which advocates for people with disabilities, said the ad is intended to end shame and stigma around menstruation and recognize a need for accessible menstrual products.
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"Women's bodies—including their menstruation—have long been used as a justification for their subordination in our society," Rosewarne told me, as we discussed pop culture's negative portrayal of periods.
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The fact is that we already have effective solutions for "controlling" our periods, and any innovation in the menstruation department should be left to people who, you know, actually menstruate.
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She recalls being given a blue pill, like other women In Lake Tahoe, she went to dinner with Cosby and another man and started to get menstruation cramps, she testified.
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"The only time I came out about it was when Fourth Wave came out with this petition," she says, explaining that the taboo associated with menstruation was just too great.
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Though there is a risk of a permanent issues surrounding both menstruation and fertility after anorexia, most women will get their period again once they're back at a healthy weight.
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The movement to make menstrual supplies more accessible on college campuses is led largely by student governments, but it's inspired by an international effort to end the stigma surrounding menstruation.
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For them, blood was something hidden—visible only when flowing from a wound, or during childbirth, miscarriage, and menstruation—so it became a symbol both of life and of death.
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Women who start menstruation early or go into menopause later may have an increased risk of breast cancer because they're exposed to more estrogen and progesterone made by the ovaries.
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Liv Strömquist's "The Night Garden," 42 felt-tip pen drawings on display in the Slussen station through this month, do just that, vividly depicting menstruation in pastoral ice skating scenes.
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The data set also offered potential heritability data for about 400 items that had not previously been examined this way, including sinus infections, tooth decay, irregular menstruation and thyroid disorders.
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Ms. Oldfield-Parker's story reflects the way menstruation can be treated in New York's jails: as an inconvenience, almost a surprise, to be met, at times, with an improvised response.
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In its very earliest incarnation, its practices took a form common across all early civilizations that was motivated by fears of blood and menstruation and the mysteries of new life.
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At that point, the lack of menstruation is classified as amenorrhea, which can be caused by stress — or hormonal changes, low body weight, medication, or other even more serious factors.
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This tale of female empowerment follows Abby, Christine, Brit and Sasha as they cope with the pressures of high school — and decide to lessen the taboo of talking about menstruation.
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His jab at Ms. Brzezinski echoed his comment that another television anchor, Megyn Kelly, had been bleeding from her wherever, that evocation of menstruation, so unclean, so embarrassing, so primal.
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Menstruation, HPV vaccination (which remains more common in girls than boys), and the fact that birth control pills require a prescription might spur discussions that aren't being had with sons.
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When women are on their periods, they are forbidden from a range of everyday activities and are often confined to "menstruation huts," where they are expected to sleep at night.
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"It's because of this history that I'm wary of returning to an argument that all females are crippled by menstruation — which is what menstrual leave implies to me," she said.
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It examines the question of motherhood from all sides, diving even into the body horror of mind-bending hormones and dedicating at least 22018 pages to the unjustness of menstruation.
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A former leading theory, known as retrograde menstruation, suggested that endometriosis was caused when menstrual tissue reversed through the fallopian tubes during a woman's period and implanted in the abdomen.
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Ideally, women, men, and everyone in between should learn about the many complexities of menstruation in their general sex ed classes, but the reality is it's unlikely that will ever happen.
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"It was all very secretive," Sellers recalled of watching a short movie about menstruation in her school gym in the 60s along with the other girls in her fifth-grade class.
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"We are aware of the stigma around menstruation and will initiate sensitization workshops for floor supervisors to ensure they understand the special requirements of women workers during their periods," Paliwal said.
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Sure, as a 3-year-old, anything involving blood is pretty scary, and it almost goes without saying that we need to have more frank conversations about menstruation with young people.
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Endometriosis may affect up to 10% of women in the U.S., but it's still tricky to get a diagnosis, partially because there's still stigma attached to health issues related to menstruation.
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A Muslim teenager wants a hijab, a group of Argentines pine for a maté gourd, and an international nonprofit aims to destigmatize menstruation by adding an emoji that evokes a period.
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In terms of creating a legislative agenda, my goal has been to advance the notion of the 'economics of menstruation' as an umbrella that a lot of ideas could live under.
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In March 2017 for International Women's Day, Meghan spoke out about the stigma surrounding menstruation, particularly in impoverished countries such as India, where the girls are shamed for starting their periods.
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You might expect girls on their period to miss school in less developed countries such as India, where widespread stigma around menstruation even stops menstruating women from attending places of worship.
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Even the way that men are taught about sex fails women, because while we were sitting inside watching the fun cartoon about menstruation, they all got to play on the playground.
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Aly Raisman has never been shy about discussing her own body image issues — even when posing nude for Sports Illustrated and speaking candidly about menstruation in her partnership with Playtex Sport.
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Poverty and menstruation myths have become destructively entwined in Uganda, where an average pack of sanitary towels costs a dollar, but the majority of people live below a dollar a day.
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During this time, and for another year or more after menstruation stops, women may experience hot flashes, insomnia, tiredness, mood swings, forgetfulness, aches and pains, vaginal dryness and pain during sex.
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"For an organisation like Unicode to recognise that menstruation should be represented in this new global language is a huge step towards breaking down a global culture of shame around periods."
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Like it or not, free-bleeding is providing both men and women the opportunity to look at menstruation from a new perspective, which is much better than no perspective at all.
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"You could make a powerful argument that the kind of tropes in Trump's discourse overlap with the discourse you see in trolling: about women shutting up, about menstruation," Ms. Beard said.
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Mebrahtu has teamed up with the nonprofit, Dignity Period, to end the stigma around the issue by speaking at schools and teaching girls and boys that menstruation is natural, not shameful.
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The procedure, which is illegal in the United States, is typically performed on girls before they reach puberty and can lead to infections, childbirth complications or pain during urination or menstruation.
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In this widely beloved novel by Judy Blume, originally published in 1970, but still on the most-challenged list, the narrator is deeply preoccupied with the when and how of menstruation.
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From Indonesia to Belarus and Kenya, the United Nations is partnering with young people, local communities, schools, governments, influencers and thought leaders to tackle taboos around menstruation and produce innovative solutions.
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Radha Paudel, who founded the Radha Paudel Foundation in 2016 to campaign for "dignified menstruation", said she found many women still quietly lived in isolation during their periods due to superstition.
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Some researchers have proposed that that retrograde menstruation, in which menstrual blood "backs up" through the uterus into the fallopian tubes and out into the abdomen, could eventually lead to endometriosis.
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The same is true of almost every menstruation-tracking app: They're designed for marketers, for men, for hypothetical unborn children, and perhaps weirdest of all, a kind of voluntary surveillance stance.
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But the practice persists, especially in the remote regions of midwestern and western Nepal, because of deeply held superstitions about menstruation and the immense social pressure to enforce the menstrual taboo.
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To get more sexual health content delivered to you inbox, sign up for our newsletter For the most part, menstruation should be pretty predictable and consistent in this decade, says Dr. Streicher.
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As a result, we don't know much about how menstruation and related hormone changes could affect athletic performance, or what kind of training might benefit women at different points in their cycle.
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But if you're someone like Abrahamson, who has been extremely active for the majority of her life, it's common for menstruation to be delayed or go away after a period of time.
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There have been some small-scale studies that report men experience drops in testosterone levels when their partner is pregnant, but how a woman's menstruation affects their partner's hormones hasn't been quantified.
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Your period might be causing breast cysts The medical community still hasn't quite figured out exactly why fibrocystic breast changes happen, but they do have their eyes on a possible cause: menstruation.
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Our persistent belief that hormonal changes associated with menstruation can affect women's ability to think clearly is rooted in "sexism and stereotypes about women," claims Chrisler of the Society for Menstrual Research.
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Afterward, he suggested that Ms. Kelly had been angry at him, so much so that she had blood pouring out of her "wherever" — a remark many saw as a reference to menstruation.
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Abbie is earnest and thoughtful, but also the kind of person who will make everyone at a dinner party repeat the word MENSTRUATION until they seem to be comfortable with the concept.
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That's because the timing of girls' menstruation and breast development was more strongly associated with mothers' own development timeline than other aspects of female maturation like pubic hair or acne, researchers note.
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When a group of feminist high school students at Oakwood School in North Hollywood first learned about the taboo surrounding menstruation in developing countries, they were compelled to do something about it.
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From being barred from religious shrines to dietary restrictions and enforced isolation during their periods to a lack of access to toilets, women continue to face many challenges during menstruation, campaigners say.
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Lamm also sells accessories that most women can relate to, including stickers that represent acne, cellulite, and stretch marks and a "period party" kit that includes underwear, pads, and a menstruation calendar.
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The hormone progesterone, which can make food move more slowly through the body, often increases in the period between ovulation and menstruation and may lead to constipation, according to the Mayo Clinic.
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"Fu Yuanhui's comments have raised awareness, because Chinese society still approaches menstruation indirectly, even considering it unlucky," said Chen Yaya, a feminist activist and researcher at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.
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"We discovered that, yes, there was a lesson in the textbook about menstruation and the female body, but that the teacher had actually skipped the lesson because she was uncomfortable," Zehtabchi said.
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Concurrently, endocrinologists were in the midst of discovering how women's hormone levels fluctuate around menstruation and menopause, which helped to institute the belief that women's hormones were the ones to be regulated.
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She's written countless articles and narratives for publications ranging from Upworthy to the New York Times, all with a focus on menstruation justice and equality, particularly for low income and incarcerated populations.
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From distributing hygiene kits to girls affected by disasters to constructing child-friendly toilets in schools across Asia and Africa, Plan International is working with communities to break the taboos surrounding menstruation.
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A woman astronaut recalls that male NASA technicians were so flummoxed by the prospect of menstruation in space that they offered her a kit of a hundred tampons for a short journey.
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Access to safe, accessible bathrooms and materials to manage menstruation is now recognized as a human rights issue that involves many other areas of development, like clean water, education and gender equality.
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Mr. Cakmak recently traveled to Kenya and Ethiopia to facilitate a collaboration between the United Nations and Parsons students commissioned to design absorbant underwear for women of menstruation age in refugee camps.
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Artists like Rupi Kaur have challenged the disgust often associated with what is a common female experience, and campaigns like Free the Tampons have pushed employers to offer menstruation supplies without charge.
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Maybe there could be some kind of selection ritual involved, something to do with menstruation and the tides — a touch of nature, to add a bit of irony justice to the endeavor.
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The book demonstrates how regressive some societies are when it comes to providing safe, sanitary conditions for menstruation, though it also takes note of innovative ways to diagnose people through blood tests.
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Only 12% of the 355 million Indian women in the reproductive age group use sanitary napkins, partly because they are not affordable or or inaccessible due to the social taboos surrounding menstruation.
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The real price of periods Elizabeth Scharpf was working for the World Bank in Mozambique when she saw the economic cost of menstruation first hand at a struggling factory making computer bags.
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In a country where erectile dysfunction ads fill television commercial slots and jokes about flatulence and bowel movements have inspired entire books, the bodily function of menstruation endures as a taboo subject.
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The teenager, from Purbichauki village in western Nepal's Doti district, is believed to have been the latest victim of a centuries-old taboo that considers women and girls as unclean during menstruation.
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Through that story, it delves into social attitudes regarding menstruation in India — a topic also notably explored in the Indian filmmaker R. Balki's 2018 feature, "Padman," which is also streaming on Netflix.
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But doctors have also found that the rate of retrograde menstruation is about the same in women with and without endometriosis, so they think additional factors spur on the disorder in some.
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With menstrual health products such as tampons, pads, and diva cups being marketed in gendered floral and pink packaging, the assumption that menstruation is a joy only women get to experience runs deep.
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Seeing as how periods are an integral part of the human experience for, you know, 50% of the population, it's only fitting that the bloodbath miracle of menstruation be immortalized in pop culture.
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Tribole notes that period cravings are common, and notes that the body has more energy needs leading up to menstruation, which might cause the body to need more fuel and crave certain things.
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You don't get a [menstruation] every 28 days ... you can do a lot that we do, but I get offended by the idea that we go through something you will never go through.
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Through the protagonist Sneha Mathur, viewers encounter common, but rarely challenged social practices and taboos such as sex-selective abortions and menstruation - all based on real life cases from across largely conservative India.
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They want periods put squarely on the public agenda, and are demanding that businesses and government take menstruation into consideration when they design facilities, develop budgets, supply schools or create anti-poverty programs.
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While Mills gestures towards this impending reality, he quickly shies away from it; from this speech, the film pivots to the funny scene at the dinner table where Abbie makes everyone say MENSTRUATION.
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In her 2010 book New Blood: Third-Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation, Dr. Chris Bobel writes about how attitudes toward periods began shifting amongst feminist activists and artists in the 1970s.
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A "Hell's Kitchen" star says she soiled her pants from menstruation when she couldn't catch a restroom break, and now she's suing a former employer for violating her rights and eventually firing her.
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There were at least four of them, both the low-tech kind where you pee on wooden sticks and the science-fiction kind that calculate everything from date of menstruation to likely menopause.
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Gates calls out corporate blind spots, like Apple having once left out a menstruation feature in their health-tracking app, and the pitfalls with artificial intelligence and the rise of female-voiced assistants.
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Before, men were treated as the default human, which put women's bodies in danger when they received high medication doses, or when their basic functions—like menstruation or ovulation—weren't factored into treatments.
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It's not about cramming everything a human needs to know about menstruation, erections, fertility, pregnancy, and bad outcomes together in one awkward sit-down at the foot of your 12-year-old's bed.
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In addition to suggesting that men beat their wives for refusing sex, the proposal also suggests that men use "limited violence" on their wives if they don't bathe after intercourse or during menstruation.
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Recognizing this stigma and the harm it can cause, UNICEF and several other nonprofits have begun developing programs that use videos and comic books to teach young people of all genders about menstruation.
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The book is admirably honest about the hang-ups pertinent to inexperienced straight guys: There are tips on how to "find" the clitoris, and an admonishment against unnecessary squeamishness around sex during menstruation.
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That includes chronic pain, chronic infection, obstructed menstruation, childbirth complications, an increased risk of contracting HIV, pain during sex, anorgasmia, post-traumatic stress disorder, and, of course, death, reports the World Health Organization.
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It can be used for contraceptives and other pill planning; to track cycles and symptoms over time; integrate menstruation with lifestyle — sleep, hydration and exercise; and of course, help women trying to conceive.
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About 15 women, all with prosthetic legs, get together on a private shared space on WhatsApp to share their common experiences - talking pregnancy, menstruation, and also what footwear is practical, but also cute.
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It&aposs also a departure from the gory historical portrayals of periods in TV and film, representing a shift in the industry, which is beginning to incorporate menstruation as a casual plot detail.
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Managing healthy menstruation is a vital part of the United Nations' efforts to support countries in achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development -- our blueprint for peaceful, prosperous societies on a healthy planet.
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"We speak about menstruation in a gender neutral way because not all women have periods, and not all those who have periods are women," said Jane Hope, a spokesperson for the company Lunapads.
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In 2018, GOOP paid $145,000 in penalty fees for making unsubstantiated medical claims about vaginal eggs, saying that they regulated menstruation cycles, along with essential oils that the company claimed could cure depression.
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The video consists of a smattering of parents sitting their kids down to tell them about things like what menstruation is, what the uterus does, and how long a period might last, for instance.
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Menstruation is normal and nothing to be ashamed about — pretty much everyone who gets periods has had to tie a sweater around their waist to hide a bloodstain at least once in their lives.
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And 100% of proceeds from the event go to expanding educational options for girls in Burkina Faso, including creating gender-equitable schools and helping girls manage their menstruation safely and effectively while in school.
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Another thing we can all do that I think will have a greater impact than we could imagine is to start talking about menstruation in your private life, take away that shame and embarrassment.
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Each demonstration of his caveman views—about Megyn Kelly's menstruation, about Carly Fiorina's face, about the size of his member—produces a show of mock-horror before Trump resumes his march to the nomination.
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"We have given clear instructions to our members to be sensitive during such times (menstruation)," said Selvaraju Kandaswamy, general secretary of the Southern India Mills' Association (SIMA), a trade body representing 500-odd factories.
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In fact, while these paintings trespass on a particular "taboo" in their concern with menstruation, the curves and concavities of much of Mr Kapoor's previous work likewise convey a preoccupation with bodies and sexuality.
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Plus, you've got a plethora of non-tampon options as well, including menstrual cups and reusable pads, which are really the way to go if you're trying to reduce the environmental impact of menstruation.
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The series also looks at teen sexuality to help adolescents to better understand the changes their bodies are undergoing and dispels social taboos that dictate that menstruation is dirty and that masturbation is unnatural.
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"Menstruation is something women cannot control," said Ms. Meng, adding that she has heard reports of homeless women who use rags or soil their clothes because they don't have access to appropriate hygiene products.
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Swimmer Fu Yuanhui, who became a social media celebrity thanks to her humorous pool-side interviews at last year's Rio Olympics on topics ranging from menstruation to boys, performed in a short comedy routine.
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The course's title was inspired by a committee opinion, published by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in 2006, that recommended using the menstruation cycle as a vital sign in girls and adolescents.
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"Centuries of oppression of women's knowledge, the cultural devaluation of the Feminine and the loathing of menstruation have meant that we have been locked out of this inner practice," reads the Red School website.
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Additionally, there are a number of reasons beyond menstruation for why a woman or girl might experience an episode of vaginal bleeding, including as a result of endometriosis, uterine fibroids, miscarriage or an STI.
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The same person who might want to find out if there's a legitimate reason for their male colleague to become angry, frustrated or agitated might ascribe those same reactions in a woman to menstruation.
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But hydration and menstruation have to be logged manually (*unless you're using Bellabeat Spring — see below.) The mediation tracking only calculates your progress through the app's own selection of more than 30 included exercises.
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A companion advertisement, entitled "Role Models", shows wide-eyed children catching news clips of Mr Trump calling Mexicans rapists, mocking a disabled reporter or suggesting that a woman journalist's judgment is addled by menstruation.
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Women are told to keep their periods secret to avoid the shame of being seen to be menstruating by others and it's part of a shaming culture that constructs menstruation as dirty and embarrassing.
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After pushback from angry female users (who reminded Apple that, even though it involves a vagina, menstruation isn't some pervy thrill), the Health app was updated to sync with period tracking and fertility apps.
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Those who suffer from endometriosis (a disorder that involves painful periods), for example, can have a hard time seeking help when they need it, because issues surrounding menstruation are too taboo to bring up.
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The first dissertation on menopause, titled "On the End of Menstruation as the Time for the Beginning of Various Diseases," was published in Latin in 1710 in what was then the kingdom of Prussia.
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Period poverty and menstruation stigma in the United Kingdom means that 10 percent of girls are unable to afford sanitary products, according to a study by Plan International, an independent development and humanitarian organization.
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"The onset of menstruation appeared to constitute a major concern for parents as they linked puberty with the potential for early romantic and sexual engagements and subsequent risk of adolescent pregnancy," the study said.
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"You can't deny that any show that begins with menstruation in the high school shower and ends with a double murder is obviously taking a risk," he told The Times a few months earlier.
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On January 9, Amba Bohora, 35, and her sons aged seven and nine, were found dead from suspected smoke inhalation in neighboring Bajura district after lighting a fire in a tiny wooden menstruation hut.
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Whether it is being cruel to a teen who has leaked blood onto her clothes at school or a woman excluded from religious services, the implication is clear — there is something dirty about menstruation.
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Nepal: A woman and her two children died in a menstruation hut, the latest victims of a centuries-old tradition of banishing women from their homes during their periods, when they are considered impure.
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I think there was a lot of willingness to talk about menstruation and subjects that would have been a lot more uncomfortable for male collaborators than it was for me and my female collaborators.
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"Our best avenue right now is to arm girls and young women with information about how their bodies work, so that they are knowledgeable about menstruation, pregnancy, STDs and how to prevent them," Flores said.
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"At our worship services, you only hear black women under 40 preaching on subjects having to do with the particularities of black women's lives [like] racism, domestic violence, menstruation, divorce and mental health," said Guidry.
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While this can lead to serious eating disorders like anorexia or bulimia, not eating enough calories can also decrease hormones that regulate menstruation and lead to irregular periods or a halt in monthly menstrual cycles.
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Which is why Lakshmi and her organization are calling for greater research and understanding about the condition — even if that means sometimes publicly talking about things that can be awkward, like menstruation or your vagina.
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There are 550 million Muslim women who can now use the hijab emoji to represent themselves, a beloved traditional drink shines a spotlight on South American culture, and a period emoji normalizes and destigmatizes menstruation.
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Glow, the company behind a suite of apps for tracking female and male fertility, pregnancy, menstruation, and sexual health, is again expanding its lineup with the launch of an application for new parents: Glow Baby.
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Shahbaz told The Nation that, in Pakistan, many kids learn myths about menstruation that get in the way of their lives — myths such as they can't take baths or eat spicy foods during their periods.
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Not only has a blunt question on the Internet transformed me into a menstruation maharishi (note to self: start printing this title on business cards), but it's also made me a total convert to cups.
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" Zehtabchi: "When I first went to India in 2017 and started talking to these women, Rekha wasn't even willing to have a conversation with us about menstruation; she would completely shut down and go silent.
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The following day, Mr. Trump told a CNN host that Ms. Kelly had blood "coming out of her eyes" and "blood coming out of her wherever," a reference that many took to refer to menstruation.
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"This 'incessant menstruation' is actually a modern construct," Yen says, explaining that because women are having fewer children overall and having them later in life, we're having more periods than we ever have in history.
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"Since prompting criticism, the organization has stood by its campaign, tweeting, "Why is it so hard to accept the truth about the reality faced by women and girls with disabilities as they experience their menstruation?
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Side effects of menstruation always suck, but they are often particularly bad during a girl's first period—especially because you don't know why your body is treating you this way until, often, it's too late.
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So when I first started reading the casebooks you would find people talking about sex and menstruation and extreme fear, extreme despair, all of these personal, intimate things in a way that seemed quite frank.
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The teen didn't have any problems with her bowel movements, menstruation, or body weight, according to the doctors, but they decided to do scans of her body since the lump was hard to the touch.
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Dao, who is trans, says that many of the trans men he works with want menstruation to stop, but often do not have access to preventative health care, or education on how to achieve that.
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At the end, the therapist shows me a small quantity of mucus that has gathered in the tube: Removal of "slime" is allegedly an additional benefit of vaginal ozone therapy, especially before or after menstruation.
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She has also stretched, however gently, the traditional reluctance of royals to express opinions on political matters, speaking for example in March about how self-consciousness around menstruation hurt young women in many developing countries.
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We need to celebrate our periods, unapologetically, and it's incredibly important to involve boys and men (and others who don't have periods) in the conversation, if we want to overcome the stigma that shrouds menstruation.
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New Delhi (CNN)Slated as the world's first feature film about menstruation, the trailblazing Bollywood movie "Pad Man" opens globally Friday with an eye toward breaking taboos around a subject rarely discussed publicly in India.
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Workplace policies can help women manage menstruation in a dignified way; sanitary products may be free or subsidized for those who cannot afford them; new designs are helping to expand choices and decrease environmental pollution.
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LONDON — English schools will significantly broaden sex and relationship education to cover topics including same-sex relationships, transgender people, menstruation, sexual assault, mental health, genital cutting, forced marriage, pornography and sexting, the government has announced.
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Well, there's probably a lot of reasons we're always looking for other words for period, ranging from everything from social pressures to the idea that the word menstruation is just a little bit hard to say.
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Maybe it wouldn't be mentioned only in euphemisms in sex education courses; uttering the word wouldn't be deemed "offensive" and in violation of decorum in Congress; pubic hair and menstruation stains wouldn't be censored on Instagram.
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Now, girls from Nepal are giving the world a glimpse at how "the silence and stigma that surround menstruation" deeply affect their lives as part of a new public awareness campaign from the international charity WaterAid.
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Through an organization called Girls Learn International, they were paired with a partner organization in India, and were alarmed to discover how the attitudes around menstruation impacted women's ability to get an education and seek work.
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CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Police are investigating allegations that a 12-year-old killed herself after a teacher humiliated her for a period stain on her uniform, highlighting the taboo of menstruation in modern India.
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In Karamoja's district of Namalu, the charity has launched its first "period club" at St. Mary's School in a bid to break the silence around menstruation and debunk the myths that lead to feelings of shame.
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" Not only does inadequate sanitary protection act as a barrier to social inclusion, but, as Freedom4Girls explains: "There are still risks to health during menstruation, especially if someone does not have access to safe sanitary protection.
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Though with the emergence of trans-inclusivity in the world of menstruation hygiene marketing, perhaps the advancements we need are not so much related to what catches the blood, but how we talk about who bleeds.
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It shows they care and helps the women save some major coin (past research has shown that menstruation, as we deal with it now, is downright expensive, regardless of how much your feminine products are taxed).
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In May 2018, the United Nations Population Fund reported on the shame, stigma and misinformation associated around menstruation and menstrual hygiene in East and Southern Africa and its consequences to women's health and human rights violations.
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About half of women who suffer migraines get intense "menstrual migraines" a few days before their period—these are the ones I have been getting—precipitated by the drop in estrogen that occurs right before menstruation.
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One study found three poses (cobra, cat and fish) for 20 minutes a day during the second half of the menstrual cycle (the luteal phase, which is the two weeks before menstruation) helped reduce period pain.
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Menstrual equality, which promotes the idea that people who menstruate should have free access to feminine hygiene products and deal with their menstruation with dignity, has taken center stage and given a rise to more choices.
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Seven months after the 10-hour transplant surgery — after menstruation began, and once it became evident that the patient's body had not rejected the organ — doctors implanted the uterus with one of the patient's own eggs.
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But for many girls and women globally, financial poverty is compounded by the stigma around menstruation that leads women to "hand off tampons to each other like we're doing a drug deal," as Krengel puts it.
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When I meet a guy who is visibly uncomfortable with the idea of menstruation, I'll usually make a point to talk about bloating or cramps or the weird digestive issues that come with a shedding uterus.
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It is filled with love stories, greedy sex ("my heart twerks for you," one character comments), pot smoke, comedy, inopportune menstruation, car crashes, tennis, and the scorching pleasure and pain of long hours in hair salons.
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With this exhibition, gallery owners and curators Eira Rojas and Aimee Rubensteen wanted to develop a conversation around not just menstruation but the role time—as in a period of time—plays in a woman's life.
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The claim is that the combination of steam and essential oils from the herbs penetrate the cervix and uterus to dislodge menstrual fluids, which apparently in turn reduces the pain, bloating, and exhaustion associated with menstruation.
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Other hormonal treatment can put the body into a menopausal state, preventing ovulation, menstruation, and the growth of endometriosis—though side effects can include bone loss, depression, and symptoms of menopause like hot flushes and insomnia.
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About one in ten people born with a uterus have endometriosis, a condition in which tissue similar to the uterine lining grows outside the uterus, causing severe pelvic pain, particularly during menstruation or during or after sex.
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"When women first went into space, it wasn't known what the effects would be," said Varsha Jain, gynecologist and researcher at Kings College London, who was among the authors of a recent paper on menstruation in spaceflight.
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And while there's a strong distinction between a sex toy and products related to women's menstruation, CES did name a "smart" menstrual cup called Loon an honoree this year in the wearables category of the Innovation Awards.
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Read more about Woody Faircloth and his work Freweini Mebrahtu: Removing the cultural stigma around women's periods Her cause: Menstruation is considered taboo in Ethiopia, and girls often miss school or drop out because of their periods.
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A new report in BMJ Global Health reveals how the global "culture of silence" around vaginal bleeding, including menstruation and other circumstances, puts the lives of women and girls in low and middle-income countries at risk.
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From vending machines dispensing cotton pads to awareness campaigns and higher disposal fees for girls and women using disposable pads, the city of more than 1.5 million is taking measures to switch to eco-friendly menstruation products.
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He drew criticism in the days that followed for suggesting that Ms. Kelly had been angry at him and that she had blood pouring out of her "wherever," a remark many saw as a reference to menstruation.
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"It completely captivated me, that there's this aspect of our lives that's so basic and so natural, yet so off limits in terms of public discourse and our own ownership of [menstruation,]" Weiss-Wolf told VICE Impact.
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Confined indoors for seven days and banned from using salt in food, women and girls often face harsh social taboos about menstruation, which excludes them from activities,such as cooking or praying — and even going to school.
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Fertility awareness methods (FAMs) are a family of non-hormonal birth control techniques that involve using body signals, such as menstruation and hormones in urine, to predict times of the month that a woman will be fertile.
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"And you know, you could see that there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever" — the latter a reference that was widely interpreted to be an off-color reference to menstruation.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Victoria has become the first Australian state to provide free sanitary products in schools, prompting calls from women's rights advocates on Thursday for a nationwide drive to end widespread taboos around menstruation.
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But menstruation is still taboo in many countries, including in Nepal where the centuries-old Hindu practice of "chhaupadi" banishes women and girls from their homes during their periods and has led to a number of deaths.
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Authors writing in ancient Greek and Latin described no equivalent of modern menopause and had no word for it, although they knew that menstruation ended around age 220 and wrote extensively about other topics in women's medicine.
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Almost all Somali girls are subjected to an extreme form of genital mutilation: All the genitals are cut away, and the raw flesh is sewn shut with wild thorns, leaving a tiny opening for urine and menstruation.
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Study of the Babylonian Talmud, an archaic, dense and complex text written partly in Aramaic and embodying rabbinical discussions on everything from sacrifices to menstruation, has formed the underpinning of Jewish life, law and scholarship for centuries.
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In an effort to end the practice, Nepal's Supreme Court outlawed chhaupadi in 2005, and in 2017 a law was enacted that made it a crime to force girls and women out of their homes during menstruation.
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Beverly is one of the better-developed Losers, and her fear of puberty and menstruation — driven by her abusive father, who sees her physical development as a threat to his control — gives It one of its eeriest moments.
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Villavicencio called out conditions like polycystic ovary syndrome, which causes cysts and hormonal imbalances and, as a result, leads to irregular menstruation in about 1-in-10 women, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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Coca, a mild stimulant, has been used for millennia by people in the Andes in tea and food, though it is most often chewed raw to give energy and treat ailments ranging from altitude sickness to menstruation pain.
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These conversations around menstruation and the products people require -- along with a lot of lobbying and awareness-raising by organizations like PERIOD, Period Equity, Human Rights Watch, Global G.L.O.W., and the Homeless Period Project, among others -- are working.
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And, put together, the resulting photos capture the nuanced feelings many people have about their periods — from the crimson waves of emotion, to the stigmatization of menstruation, to the connection to bodily function, to femininity and/or sexuality.
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For example: When Apple's HealthKit first launched, users were able to track their blood alcohol level, sodium intake, and inhaler use, but there was no option to track menstruation, leaving people with menstrual cycles out of the equation.
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For another, it is a helpful gauge of a cis male's long-term potential, maturity, and seaworthiness — because on a long enough timeline, every man has to once or twice dig deep and face the reality of menstruation.
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The stigma surrounding menstruation prevents girls from attending schools that lack functioning and separate toilets, and often girls are forced to sacrifice their education in order to travel long distances for water to bring back for their families.
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Taken as a whole, the few scientific studies that have focused on women, sports and menstruation indicate that, while a woman's body will change during her monthly cycle, her performance is unlikely to be significantly enhanced or weakened.
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"For patients who are acutely ill, however, from their Crohn's or ulcerative colitis, there may be multiple good reasons not to have children including depression, malnutrition, amenorrhea (lack of menstruation), and general poor quality of life," Leung added.
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Controversy: As an undergraduate, Ms. Shvarts embarked on a monthslong performance art project during which she said she inseminated herself with semen donated by men she termed "fabricators," then triggered menstruation (or, possibly, miscarriage) with an herbal abortifacient.
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Plagued with injuries, I had osteopenia, the precursor to osteoporosis; amenorrhea, the absence of menstruation; and depression — all consequences of what's now recognized as Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport, or RED-S, a condition that impairs physiological functioning.
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"The lack of women in medicine meant the medical canon about menstruation was first created by literally the least informed people: those who had never had a period," Gunter wrote in a column for The New York Times.
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Jon (Dennis William Grimes) is dumbfounded when he learns about menstruation; Howie (Amir Wachterman) has a meltdown and stops only when Sofia tells him that yes, he's funny: "I think I just didn't understand the joke," she explains.
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The practice isn't limited to rural areas or girls with low education levels; even school teachers, health workers, and local leaders sleep in the menstruation huts, according to Renu Sharma, president of local non-profit The Women's Foundation.
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After that happened, women still had to report their periods, even though a document called the " 'Medical Considerations of WASPS' determined that menstruation was 'not a handicap to flying and there was no relationship to accidents,' " Vostral said.
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"A standout sequence links the oil and blood of the wars in Iraq to family ties ('blood'), to menstruation and bad skin, as international conflict and American prejudice inform what would otherwise just come off as teenage angst."
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While people are undoubtedly born intersex, depending on their intersex trait, some people won't be able to tell until they reach puberty and menstruation doesn't happen — which is another reason it's hard to pinpoint the population of intersex people.
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Although it varies from country to country, the stigma around menstruation is pervasive throughout the world, and it affects the way periods are discussed: Clue collected over 5,000 different euphemisms and terms used to refer to a woman's period.
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The number of pregnancies, use of hormonal contraceptives, and the age women gave birth for the first time also didn't appear to influence the odds of getting MS. Starting menstruation at a younger age did appear to raise risk.
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Some people see practical concerns: they dispute that the brain can be called dead if some functions that it regulates, such as menstruation, remain; or they worry that people will be prematurely declared dead in order to secure organs.
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For women with terrible period cramps, the vaginal suppositories from FORIA harness the muscle-relaxing and pain-relieving properties of cannabis—without inducing a psychotropic "high"—and alleviate the back pain, abdominal cramping, and general achiness associated with menstruation.
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New Delhi (CNN)A teenage girl in Nepal has died after she was bitten by a snake while banished to a cowshed during a menstruation ritual that sees young women separated from their families and made to sleep alone.
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Bohora was taking part in chhaupadi, a common practice in the west of the country in which women, considered unclean during menstruation, are forbidden from touching other people, food that may be consumed by others, cattle and even books.
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The social media reaction to Kiran's freebleeding marathon suggested that our attitudes to menstruation aren't much more advanced than banishing a polluted woman to the edge of the village for five days or not letting her near a church.
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He liked the way he sounded as if he were on the next barstool, and Mr. Iezzi chuckled approvingly recalling Mr. Trump's dismissive remarks about the newscaster Megyn Kelly in 2015 that were widely interpreted as referring to menstruation.
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I also learned what may have caused the diarrhea — prostaglandins, which are substances released during menstruation that, among other things, help the uterus contract — but only because I had learned in another lecture that prostaglandins could also cause diarrhea.
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The majority of surveyed military women say they would like to suppress menstruation during deployment but very few are doing so, according to the paper in Obstetrics & Gynecology that explores why more military women are not accessing that option.
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Coming-of-age sexuality for women, especially in pop culture, is usually horrific — like the bloody sink in It, or the bucket of blood in Carrie, or Sansa Stark's (Sophie Turner) panicked reaction to her first menstruation in Game of Thrones.
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The girl, from Gajra village in western Nepal's Achham district, was taking part in chhaupadi, a common practice in the far west of the country in which women, considered unclean during menstruation, are banished for the extent of their periods.
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