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history of that time of the month....
hannar Started conversation Apr 24, 2001
okay, I've been wondering this for awhile, so I'm just gonna ask it and see if anyone else somehow knows. Boys, who are generally grossed out by the mention of "that time of the month", stop reading, since my mom taught me to not intentionally gross people out...
...I know we use pads and tampons now, and the native americans used gathered grass, but what did people in midevil times use when they had their periods? Europe, Asian, ect. Ever wonder about that?
history of that time of the month....
Researcher shorty Posted Apr 24, 2001
does it really matter that much, life is too short to think about those 'good old days'.
history of that time of the month....
Jon Quixote: steaming little purple buns for tea. Posted Apr 24, 2001
Probably just rags or cotton or something.
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Tegan[-1+(7^2)-2-0-4=42] Posted Apr 26, 2001
Rags. My father's mother told my mother about washing her rags in a bucket in the basement and being afraid one of her brothers would come in and see the blood.
How miserable and sad.
Makes those hoop skirts and bustles and all of earlier eras easier to understand, too.
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xyroth Posted Apr 27, 2001
That is also probably the derivation for the terms "rag week" and being "on the rag".
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Apr 30, 2001
One of the tampon manufacturers claimed in an ad that the Ancient Egyptian women made tampons from dried papyrus leaves.
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Xordin the curious Posted Apr 30, 2001
that's gotta be bullshit...dried papyrus would hurt + the egyptians didn't use papyrus for EVERYTHING
hmmmmm...
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