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Global

June 18, 2015 1 Comment

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. (…)

Facts & Figures

June 14, 2015 0 Comments

Toxic tampon (1): asbestos?

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.

Respond

June 12, 2015 0 Comments

Just a tampon

Break the taboo about menstruation by making a selfie with a tampon.

Body & Mind

May 30, 2015 0 Comments

7 Tips for a happy vagina

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. (…)

Culture

May 23, 2015 0 Comments

Kotex Girl

She was the first real-life woman appearing in a commercial for menstrual towels: Elizabeth ‘Lee’ Miller (1907-1977). In the twenties she was a successful model in New York. (…)

Facts & Figures

May 20, 2015 0 Comments

Houston, we have a problem

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. (…)

Culture

May 15, 2015 0 Comments

The Period Fairy

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.

Art

May 12, 2015 0 Comments

Selfie 2.0

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.

Body & Mind

May 8, 2015 0 Comments

Sweet dreams?

Having your period, ok. But also dreaming about it?! What’s that supposed to mean? (…)

Culture

May 6, 2015 0 Comments

Once upon a time…

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? (…)

Shopping

May 1, 2015 0 Comments

(M)Eeeee(o)w

It’s not what it seems. And yet it is. Meowadays makes very peculiar cat toys.

Body & Mind

April 1, 2015 0 Comments

I feel so fat

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?

Culture

April 1, 2015 0 Comments

Period stains? Not on Instagram

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.

Global

April 1, 2015 0 Comments

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. (…)

Shopping

April 1, 2015 0 Comments

Period Panties

The Period Panties from Menstrosity will tell you in one instant which time of the month it is.

Quotes

April 1, 2015 0 Comments

Dangerous stuff

‘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. (…)

Quotes

April 1, 2015 0 Comments

If Men Could Menstruate

Feminist Gloria Steinem wrote in 1978 a hilarious essay about a world in which certain roles were reversed: If Men Could Menstruate. (…)

Body & Mind

April 1, 2015 0 Comments

Running wise: 5 tips

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.

Culture

April 1, 2015 0 Comments

Man versus pad

Attractive. Strong but also soft. Tender. Reliable. The ideal man is a sanitary napkin, so do we see in a Chinese commercial.

Global

April 1, 2015 0 Comments

Pure or impure: that’s the question

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. (…)