Menstrual Taboos
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27th May 2018
Nepal is a county where menstruation is still a taboo. In some cultures here, menstruation is still considered to be "god's curse on women" and when you are menstruating, you are supposed to sit in a corner and not touch anybody. Seriously, if you touch someone, even by accident, then they wash all their clothes, take a shower and sprinkle cow urine in the house to purify it.
My friend practices such a religion and I went to her place to hang out one time. While watching a movie I fell asleep on the couch and my period had started just then. By the time I woke up, the couch was soaked and my light blue jeans were gone as well. She saw this and star.....
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What needs to be done for healthier menstruation?
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27th May 2018
Posted by : Nirmal Paudel
Menstruation or period or menses, is a biological process of conventional and natural discharge of blood and layers of endometrium from the uterus due to the various actions of hormones. But in developing countries like ours, menstruation is impure, shameful and mucky. Menstruation, as culturally explained are those days of the month when women are bound to stay within a room, aren’t allowed to access all the ethnically and traditionally valuable things and will have to perpetuate themselves as impure. But, is it actually significant to consider menstruation negative when all biological processes are regarded as miraculous events? The prevailing tr.....
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Menstruation is Not the Problem
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27th May 2018
Posted by : Sitasma Sharma
‘Polluting touch’, that is the name given to a touch when a menstruating woman touches something she is restricted to touch. There’s another common knowing in our country Nepal among different groups of people, that menstruating woman is ritually impure. The biggest problem is that people think that menstruation is itself a problem and that is why many girls and women have to go through all kinds of physical, social and psychosocial obstacles in their life. It is all because of people’s wrong way of perceiving it due to lack of adequate knowledge and the misleading sociocultural beliefs that have strong roots in the foundational pipeline of our socie.....
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My first experience with Menstruation
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27th May 2018
Menstruation is a natural phenomenon and happens to every girl and women around the world. Normally four day of period of time blood flowing from the vagina. We women are the creators of new life into the world, and our periods are a part of that process. And about my first experience when I got menstruation, I still remember my first day of menstruation at that time I was just hanging with my friends as usual and all of the sudden I felt uneasy but I didn’t care about that. After a while, I went to the washroom and I saw blood on my undergarment and suddenly I got scared, and many questions started to rise regarding myself : what was wrong with me,.....
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