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Menstrual Periods
The persistent labelling of menstrual periods as a distasteful and shameful subject has profound implications for public health. The stigma surrounding periods can lead to this damaging silence where we are shamed from talking about periods because it's not polite conversation. We don't know whether our own periods are normal because we don't hear the experiences of others. N it creates enormous inequities for people who menstrate. In most states, tampons, for example, are subject to sales tax. And also, in most states, prisons charge inmates for menstral products. But circling back to the history, part of this may be the reason that n demetriosis doesn't show up very much until