Curiosities of menstruation

Menstruation is still taboo. Even with the evolution of tampons, menstrual collectors, female blood is still a reason for disgust and shame.

As uncomfortable as it is, menstruating is a sign of health, it is the internal desquamation of the uterus, a result when there was no fertilization.

Some women are more sensitive during their menstrual period, cramps can be uncomfortable, fluid retention increases, headaches and some pain in the lower back. There are women who report that during this period their libido increases, who prefer to practice menstrual intercourse, precisely because the sensitivity is so refined that they can feel sex much more intensely.

In the very distant past, in ancient Greece, cave women barely menstruated, they had one child after another, without a break.

In ancient Rome, women were considered unclean in the menstrual period, people distanced themselves.

In middle age, women menstruated a lot, because they repudiated sex, did not get pregnant and there was no laboratory hormone.

In many places in South Africa, menstruation is still a source of shame. There they are considered impure, they can neither touch religious images that are seen as sacred, nor enter temples.

Going further, India is the most sexist country in the world, during the menstrual period women are considered dirty and untouchable, as if they were cursed during this period, they are prevented from entering the kitchen so as not to contaminate food.

In the Philippines, a portion of women do not have a bath, they do not wash their hair, as the myth that water can rise to their heads causing madness prevails there.

In 2014, the German NGO Wash United established May 28 as Menstrual Hygiene Day, with the aim of educating girls and women to break the silence about the