Here are some period facts for you because I'm miserable
Right now, my ovaries are literally cutting off their own blood supplies. They are trying to commit suicide. That is what cramps really are.
Before tampons and pads, a woman would sit on a stack of hay in a hut with other women on their periods because it was indecent to bleed around men.
In earlier Christianity, women would be denied communion during menstrual cycles.
Women will spend approximately 35,000 days on my period in my lifetime.
The Romans attribute the deformity of Vulcan to the menstrual intercourse of his parents, Juno and Jupiter.
Menstruation may have led to humanity's sense of time as most lunar calendars were based on the length of a woman's menstrual cycle.
Menstrual blood was thought to cure warts, birthmarks, gout, goiters, hemorrhoids, epilepsy, worms, leprosy, and headaches. It was also used in love charms, could ward off demons, and was occasionally used as an offering to a god. The first napkin worn by a virgin was thought to be a cure for the plague.
The egg is the largest human cell in the body and can be seen with the naked eye.
At one point in history, women who complained of cramps were sent to psychiatrists because they were seen as a rejection of one's femininity.
Ancient Egyptians used softened papyrus as rudimentary tampons. Hippocrates notes that the Greeks used lint wrapped around wood. The modern tampon was invented by Dr. Earle Haas in 1929, which was called a “catamenial device” or “monthly device.” He trademarked the brand name Tampax.
Nicknames for a menstrual period include Aunt Flo, On the Rag, I’m at a Red Light, Surfing the Crimson Tide, Checked into Red Roof Inn, Curse of Dracula, Leak Week, My Dot, and Monthly Oil Change.
The Mae Enga people of Papua New Guinea believe that contact with menstrual blood or a menstruating woman will “sicken a man and cause persistent vomiting.” It will also “kill his blood so that it turns black, dull his wits, and lead to a slow death.”
The same chemicals that cause uterine contractions during menstruation also cause the lower intestine to contract as well, which can lead to diarrhea.
In many cultures, a fetus was thought to be formed in the womb by clotting menstrual blood.
In some parts of India, a woman indicates she is menstruating by wearing a handkerchief around her neck stained with her menstrual blood.
Scholars suggest that as matriarchy gave way to patriarchy, menstrual blood taboos were used by men to control women and, consequently, menstrual blood was interpreted away from something powerful to a “disgusting” waste product that had no role in the reproductive process.