Free to bleed: escaping the shame of menstruating

Yumi Can you imagine swapping out your diva cup for a wad of buffalo skin? Whereas blood coming out of a woman's vagina and dribbling down her leg is seen as really something that we can't ever see. You Yumi know, when I think about it, because I've got two daughters who've gone through this, is there's sort of a point where you do have to step up to manage it. Jane A really high percentage of women told us that they didn't know about menstruation before their first period so that they felt horror, they felt shock. So not seeing, you know, because I think there's also a lot of shame and stigma associated with PMS and premenstrual change that women can't talk about.