If you are, or ever have been, or ever might be involved with human reproduction, you will probably learn interesting things by visiting the Museum of Menstruation. The museum currently exists online, and is looking for a physical home in or near New York City, a metropolis in which human reproduction is believed to occur […]
Tag: menstruation
Menstruation music videos for kids
Barnkanalen, the Swedish childrens’ TV channel, adds this item, called “Hurra for Mens!” [English translation: “Hurrah for Monthlies!”] to the emerging category of menstruation music videos for children. Savor the dancing tampon: (Thanks to Geri Sullivan for bringing this to our attention.) BONUS: Here’s a earlier video —this one made by students — about dancing tampons, with music by Tchaikovsky: […]
Bloody, difficult to believe: Menstruation by the Ear
This is one of the few medically documented claims of ear menstruation: “Menstruation by the Ear, ” New York Medical Journal, August 5, 1899, p. 201. Here’s the beginning of that report: (Thanks to the Amboceptor Blog for bringing this to our attention.)
Little Vaginal Quibbles About ‘Why Suffer?”
Jane Richards has some quibbles in her review (in the July 1980 issue of the Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners) of the book Why Suffer? Periods and Their Problems, Lynda Birke and Katy Gardner, Virago, London (1979), 68 pages): I wonder who the authors intend should read this handbook? It is an […]
Commencement of hostilities
Prolific explainer Katherine Barlow (of Vienna, Austria, formerly of London, England) explains a fact of life: There is yet another reason for not having women in military forces: menstruation. It comes in monthly cycles until the menopause (I presume most of the women in any army will be pre-menopausal by a few decades). Any woman […]