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Emma Barnett
Period.
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For my two boys –
the best team I could wish for
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CHAPTER ONE
Without even realising it, I was already hard-wired to protect the man in my life from potential female grossness.
I was made to feel proud on the day I bled for the first time, rather than dirty and ashamed.
His cheeks were bright red and he looked like he might vomit.
Instead, they have to waddle about with a cotton surfboard jammed between their legs. Lovely.
Periods, whether you are into tasting yours or ignoring it as best you can, are part of the essence of being female.
It’s time to perfect your period patter and swagger with pride, but it’s also important to know what you are up against: generations and generations of debilitating myths and anti-women, fear mongering nonsense.
CHAPTER TWO
And that’s how my husband’s romantic university proposal ended up leading to one of the most memorable conversations I’ve had about my menstrual flow.
I was wasn’t even allowed to touch my husband’s sleeve, or, in my favourite example, pass him a piece of steak I’d cooked for his dinner.
Looking back further, Roman philosopher Pliny the Elder wrote in AD 60 that having sex with a woman on her period during a solar eclipse could prove deadly.
We must not lose control of that hard-won right – especially over our periods – at a time when our voices are louder than ever before.
CHAPTER THREE
‘Periods suck. We women are complicit in the silence.’
Bluntly put, often we put up with our internal lady piping and vaginas not quite working as they should because we are embarrassed and we don’t believe it to be our absolute right for everything to be more than
all right
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