I don't know who it was who first decided that our genitalia were inherently taboo, but they managed to cause a lot of problems for people over the course of literal millennia.
Of course, we understand that the average person doesn't want to see us walking around nude in public or urinating wherever we happen to be standing. Still, that doesn't mean we have to treat these parts of ourselves as though they're Voldermort and shudder at even the thought of speaking their names.
Indeed, if we hadn't spend so long as a society doing this, it's unlikely that those of us who menstruate would have had to roll the dice as soon as they hit puberty. Will they find some reasonable help as they enter what can be a jarring chapter of their lives or will that help simply be replaced by shame?
After all the time that half the world's population has had to spend addressing their periods throughout history, you'd think this wouldn't be a question we'd still have to ask.
But while we're definitely seeing some great strides in destigmatizing periods, it still comes up more than you might expect.
