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Tales from the Missionary Hut: The Banana leaf Tampon

The banana leaf tampon is all the rage for menstruating women from Sweden to Singapore... more

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Menopause-Facts.

Nothing to really worry about. During the process, one is likely to become depressed... more

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Boss forces female staff to wear red bracelets when they're on their periods

A boss in Norway has ordered all his female staff to wear red bracelets whilst on... more

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10 Common Myths about Menstruation

Menstruation really isn't all that mysterious or weird; in fact, it's one of... more

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Rorschach Test - Social Experiment

See what people are comfortable saying about these rather anatomical inkblots. Stop by... more

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Job Interview - Social Experiment

Who has what it takes who spot women on their periods?

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Buy Me Tampons - Social Experiment

In this experiment, a girl has left her bike lock at home and asks male passers-by to... more

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Tyra Talks Disposable Panties

Tyra, we have so much to thank you for: from pretending to be homeless to reading... more

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Reusable Pokemon...menstrual pad

Yep. You read that right.

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Wendy Williams: Train Wreck TV

The Wendy Williams Show is one of the newest talk shows on the air. Expect lots of... more

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so here we go girls

women have been making tremendous advances all through the 21st century regarding... more

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A mathematical formula about your uterus

Webcomic xkcd has made a funny about periods and uteri.

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Menstruation, like the burning red spot of Jupiter raging inside you

This is what your period looks like, according to some chick with Jupiter in her uterus.

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Genes Connect Menstruation, Menopause and BMI

Girls who begin menstruation earlier than average have a greater chance of being short... more

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"My Litte Red Book" - A Secret All Women Share

"Seldom can a book stretch to accommodate both its author’s and its publisher’s fondest hopes: that it be original yet universal, artistic yet practical, and likely to sell briskly for centuries to come.

To understand why Rachel Kauder Nalebuff’s “My Little Red Book” manages all of the above, you need only muse for a moment on the fact that your local Victoria’s Secret, that high temple of undress, has private dressing rooms. Or that “Hair” on Broadway features full frontal nudity on stage and the usual segregated men’s and ladies’ rooms at intermission. Or that sex education still routinely proceeds in single-sex classes.

In other words, for all our public exploration of everyone else’s bodies, our own personal specimens remain quite private. So when it comes to the onset of menstruation, it is the rare girl who will launch an enthusiastic dialogue with family or friends on the subject. Far more typical is she who enters the feminine-products aisle alone (and returns there alone for the duration).

To 18-year-old Rachel Nalebuff, this particular privacy made no sense. Reasoning that every lonely soul wandering through Walgreens has a story to tell, she was inspired to assemble a collection of 92 short reflections by women on the subject of their first period.

At this point, male readers may want to go outside and toss a ball around for a while. No matter how sympathetic, how curious or how deeply interested in life’s little yuck factors you are, this collection is unlikely to hold more than the mildest intellectual appeal for you. But it is hard to imagine any woman, from the most straitlaced and body-denying to the most uninhibited and body-embracing, who will not read right through it with pure enjoyment, small flashes of recognition and the urge to buy it for every female preteen in sight.

Contributors range in age from teenagers to the very old, and they come from all over the world. Either Ms. Nalebuff or her editors had the good sense to prohibit all of them, especially the well-known writers, from droning on. Most pieces are a few crisp paragraphs that manage to avoid both the chirpy “You are a woman now” song of the Tampax box and the lugubrious musings on blood, moons and fertility of the feminist academic.

Ms. Nalebuff’s Great Aunt Nina, for instance, got her first period on a train out of Poland at the onset of World War II, while being strip-searched by guards at the German border. Her first napkin was a railroad-issue toilet paper roll, and her first intimation of a better life ahead was her mother’s hissed promise that sanitary products in France, where they were headed, were far better than Polish versions.

Sixty years later, Ms. Nalebuff herself spent a horrific afternoon waterskiing in a stained yellow bathing suit stuffed with paper towels, in the company of her tongue-tied grandfather. Her younger sister Zoe, on her day, simply text-messaged her best friend a big red dot and a sigh: “Only 40 more years.”

The author Patricia Marx was furious at her first period, having decided by age 15 that she was going to be lucky enough to skip the whole thing. Cecily von Ziegesar, author of the “Gossip Girl” series, was one of untold thousands to be flummoxed by a box of applicator-free O.B. tampons. The runner Kathrine Switzer had to prime the pump with calories: only after she gained 15 pounds with peanut butter and chocolate milk did she begin to menstruate.

Even Gloria Steinem makes an appearance, with a reprint of her hoary 1978 classic, “If Men Could Menstruate.” (“Congress would fund a National Institute of Dysmenorrhea to help stamp out monthly discomforts. Sanitary supplies would be federally funded and free.”)""Seldom can a book stretch to accommodate both its author’s and its... more

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Menstruation innovation no contamination!

Obviously, the Keeper is not for every woman, but only one woman in my extended circle... more

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Tales from the Missionary Hut: The Banana leaf Tampon

Menopause-Facts.

Boss forces female staff to wear red bracelets when they're on their periods

10 Common Myths about Menstruation

Rorschach Test - Social Experiment

Job Interview - Social Experiment

Buy Me Tampons - Social Experiment

Tyra Talks Disposable Panties

Reusable Pokemon...menstrual pad

Wendy Williams: Train Wreck TV

so here we go girls

A mathematical formula about your uterus

Menstruation, like the burning red spot of Jupiter raging inside you

Genes Connect Menstruation, Menopause and BMI

"My Litte Red Book" - A Secret All Women Share

Menstruation innovation no contamination!

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