I think also that the whole improve your dieat and your menstrually reated symptoms will go away stuff to be frustrating.. Just as I think the whole PMS is a disease argument is frustrating. There is LEGITIMATE pain and additional rustration and going and spending a week in a thatch hut eating chocolate and weaving grass mats is simply not an option. Comping in the modern world with real issues often requires medications and should be utilized. Also I love my biology and think it is a thing of beauty and wonder, however as my brain and the society I live in can conceive of altering our world.. Certainly we can conceive of altering ourselves. I see nothing wrong with those looking into relieving themselves of child producing capacity altogether and I still think the adage holds true that if MEN got pregnant or experienced PMS there would have long ago been found a "cure." Fortunately as our society become more egalitarian the research interests in favor or women's issues is coming to the fore - perhaps with the male birth control medications and the development of better menstrual coping options. (No more paper napkins to hide and throw away because it is so UNSEEMLY but instead neat things as the Keeper and an ability to clean yourself in public restrooms (bidets?).)
I know of at least one modern religion that holds menstrual blood sacred. The Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (an occult church based on Aleister Crowley's teachings) takes a sacrament called "cakes of light" that's made with menstrual blood. I'm told, though, that these days folks burn the blood to ash and then cook it into the cakes of light because they started to get worried about biohazards.
I use pills to turn my cycle mostly off. I have three periods a year. I like it that way. And the hormones keep my mood on an even keel. Sacred or not, menstruation is the last thing I want to experience during finals week.
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I think also that the whole improve your dieat and your menstrually reated symptoms will go away stuff to be frustrating.. Just as I think the whole PMS is a disease argument is frustrating. There is LEGITIMATE pain and additional rustration and going and spending a week in a thatch hut eating chocolate and weaving grass mats is simply not an option. Comping in the modern world with real issues often requires medications and should be utilized. Also I love my biology and think it is a thing of beauty and wonder, however as my brain and the society I live in can conceive of altering our world.. Certainly we can conceive of altering ourselves. I see nothing wrong with those looking into relieving themselves of child producing capacity altogether and I still think the adage holds true that if MEN got pregnant or experienced PMS there would have long ago been found a "cure." Fortunately as our society become more egalitarian the research interests in favor or women's issues is coming to the fore - perhaps with the male birth control medications and the development of better menstrual coping options. (No more paper napkins to hide and throw away because it is so UNSEEMLY but instead neat things as the Keeper and an ability to clean yourself in public restrooms (bidets?).)
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I use pills to turn my cycle mostly off. I have three periods a year. I like it that way. And the hormones keep my mood on an even keel. Sacred or not, menstruation is the last thing I want to experience during finals week.