“...I wasn’t as pissed as I should have been....”

I’m American and learned about periods from the Bible.

Thank you for sharing your story and highlighting a very real issue in some parts of the world (and in our part of the world, it seems). I’m sorry you had to grow up feeling that way about your body, that you didn’t receive proper information on a natural and normal part of puberty. I remember being super…

I once read a novel about an Irish family emmigrating to America over 100 years ago. On the ship the daughter got her period for the first time and thought she was dying because she had no idea what it was. From everything described in the book, that seems one of the aspects that is still closest to modern life.