[ SECRET POST #2714 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2714 ⌋

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Comments

[diet_poison]

Right, but I'm not talking about "back then", I'm talking about fictional settings in a pre-industrial setting where women are doing really active things.

[(Anonymous)]

There were plenty of real pre-industrial women who were active, as well. In fact, most women outside of the upper class were active. They had to be.

I'll fully admit that I don't know how they handled their periods, but I really get annoyed when people think that women just sat at home doing nothing until recently. I mean, shit, just for one example, in the middle ages, breweries and inns were run by women.

[diet_poison]

That's what I want to know, though. How they (fictional characters in a setting where pads and tampons don't exist) handle their periods. :P

[(Anonymous)]

Apparently being very, very active can reduce periods. Amenorrhea comes up a lot if you google it, but I'm not sure about specifics.
This is the reasoning I've seen in fiction anyways, if dealt with at all. How women actually handled blood, well, other people have already mentioned the rags and free flowing.

[tabaqui]

A lot of women used nothing at all, they just bled into their clothes. Some used rags, other used grasses or moss. My mom - born in 1935 - used rags, and told me how gross it was, this stiff and bloody rag between her thighs all day at school, how it stunk, how much she hated it and hoped no one else could smell it.

http://www.mum.org/whatwore.htm

This is interesting - talks about straw spread out on the floor of a mill to catch blood from menstruating women. Also, keep in mind - a lot of women were pregnant or nursing all the time, so they didn't *have* a lot of periods.