Adventures in Menstruation

Adventures in Menstruation: Time to Dump Those Silly TaboosMenstrual activists confront shame, secrecy and the medicalization of a perfectly normal thing that all women do.

http://www.alternet.org/adventures-menstruation-time-dump-those-silly-taboos

I agree that we should have a whole lot more openess about this topic. And I also agree that from an enviroment perspective we need to look back to the old ways of taking care of our bodies. Thousands used tampons clog the enviroment and to boot they may be toxic to our bodies.

 

This is a question of supply vs. demand. Do women use disposable feminine products because we've had them thrown in our faces by the medical community? Or is it because it's just straight up more convenient and humans are lazy by nature? Do we hate menstruation because of the media? Or do a lot of women who hate it hate it because it's painful for them?

How exactly do we know that women 100 years ago loved their period and embraced their bodies? In poor countries, girls often have to stay home from school on their periods because there aren't proper hygeine facilities at the schools. I'm not saying we should send them disposable crap they have no way of properly disposing of, but I am saying that most women probably hated their periods just as much if not more in the days before convenient pads and Advil.

I've never really experienced my period as being taboo--except in middle school, when everything was taboo except being an asshole. It's less taboo than pooping, which is also a normal biological process. I think it's just cause it involves blood and genitals, and blood and/or genitals make a lot of people uncomfortable.

 

Get a diva cup and never have to buy pads or tampons again, and help the environment too by not throwing all that waste away!

 

Me I don't like the diva cup.

It's silicon.. Just another artificial man made non degradable thing and I don't like stuff like that in my body. Personally I won't even eat food that has been touched by plastic. So there's no way I'm going to put something like that in me.

Me I just carry a supply of cotton cloths with me.

 

Article in op is fucking disgusting. Cooking with period blood?? Really?

 

Unless you raise all of your food yourself and never eat anything else, this statement is false

 

I can't stand pads because they feel like diapers and look terrible. Silicon is neautral to the human body, it's harmless.

meh, it's sterile. no grosser than African tribes drinking cow's blood.

This. Statement is unrealistic, highly exaggerated, and highly improbable.

 

I read and I hear things about artificial stuff being ok. And you know all that stuff depends on quality control and how much someone takes their job seriously.

Then add in the entire this stuff won't decompose for a million billion years.

It may not necessarily be the most comfortable thing in world but I'll stick to my cotton face cloths and handkerchiefs.

 

Piss is sterile too, and you're not gonna see me drinking that either.