Argumentative Essay On Menstrual Blood

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Imagine if it were you: missing school or work since you cannot afford the products you need. Imagine if it were you: forced to leave your home as it is "that time of the month". Imagine if it were you: shunned by family and friends; made to feel like less of a person simply because of a natural bodily function. This is life for millions of women around the world and it needs to change. Women are historically encouraged to hide their periods. Even today, in "modern" society, menstruation is still highly stigmatized. This stigmatization leads to serious problems with health, social situations, personal development, society, and even endangers women's lives. Just as medical professionals often use Latin to discuss topics …show more content…

This reinforces the idea that the topic of menstrual blood and menstruation itself is an unsuitable subject for open discussion. These ideas about menstruation presented to us in religious texts and reinforced through mainstream media, are the main factors in the development of women's silence on the subject of menstruation. Menstruation, or a period, is normal vaginal bleeding that occurs as part of a woman's monthly cycle. Every month a woman's body prepares for pregnancy; if pregnancy does not occur, the uterus (the organ in the lower body of a woman, or female mammal, in which the conception of offspring occurs; as well as, where gestation takes place preceding birth; the womb), then sheds its lining resulting in a period. Historically, people believed that the key to woman's health is in her womb. Coincidentally, these beliefs have led to rather absurd ideas about menstruation. Most ideas about menstrual blood still followed myths presented by Pliny, a Roman natural philosopher in the first century BCE, which claimed that menstrual blood was poisonous and could perform shocking, magical feats. These feats apparently included causing the wine to

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