Menstruating? Fasting forbidden!
What’s the view of the five major world religions on menstruation? In Islam there’s no need to fast if you’re on your period. (…)
What’s the view of the five major world religions on menstruation? In Islam there’s no need to fast if you’re on your period. (…)
They can contain toxins and cause TSS. At least, that’s what rumours say. Are tampons really that dangerous or do people make a big fuss about nothing? Period! investigates the matter.
There are so many different hygiene products, types and brands, which one should you choose? That’s completely up to you. But here are seven tips. (…)
She was the first real-life woman appearing in a commercial for sanitary towels: Elizabeth ‘Lee’ Miller (1907-1977). In the twenties she was a successful model in New York. (…)
Were 100 tampons enough for a one-week mission into space? Or would she need 200? This was what a male NASA engineer asked Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. (…)
If there’d be an Oscar for tampon commercials, then it’d surely go to The Period Fairy. And also the two previous videos by Hello Flo would be Academy Award winners.
Dutch writer Heleen van Royen gave a whole new meaning to the term ‘selfie’. One of the 200 pictures in her book Selfmade shows her removing a tampon, in close-up.
Having your period, ok. But also dreaming about it?! What’s that supposed to mean? (…)
Is the fairy-tale Little Red Riding Hood a simple warning to children to obey their parents? Or does it have a deeper hidden meaning? (…)
It’s not what it seems. And yet it is. Meowadays makes very peculiar cat toys.
A waist that seems to have disappeared and breasts that seem to have grown a cup size. Many women feel fatter than normal on their period. But are those feelings fact or fiction?
It’s a picture of a woman on her period. A very normal situation. But it seems like menstruation is still taboo, at least on social media.
What’s the view of the five major world religions on menstruation? In Buddhism menstruation is seen as a natural physical excretion that women have to go through on a monthly basis, nothing more or less. (…)
The Period Panties from Menstrosity will tell you in one instant which time of the month it is.
‘The wine is sour, flowers wilt, seeds dry out, bee colonies die, even the mirror becomes dull and loses its gloss ivory’ – Pliny the Elder. (…)
Feminist Gloria Steinem wrote in 1978 a hilarious essay about a world in which certain roles were reversed: If Men Could Menstruate. (…)
One of the advantages of running: you can do it whenever you want and at your own pace. Five tips for running on your period.
Attractive. Strong but also soft. Tender. Reliable. The ideal man is a sanitary napkin, so do we see in a Chinese commercial.
What’s the view of the five major world religions on menstruation? Although a girl’s first period is often celebrated in Hinduism, menstruating women are seen as impure. (…)