Thread 18073096

How did women deal with periods historically? They didn't have pads. Did they bleed as much as modern women? What about the pain?

They probably just bled everywhere. No wonder women were considered unclean.

>>18073096 (OP)
I know some cultures would just force women to sit in an isolated room when they were menstruating. Probably didn't make the experience any more pleasant for them, but it might have for everyone else.

>>18073096 (OP)
They would use a cloth or a rag, hence the expression "on the rag."

>>18073259
ChatGPT says that expression only came about in the 19th century

>>18073318
The expression being relatively new doesn't mean the practice is.

>>18073096 (OP)
Civilized cultures would have women stuff in absorbant materials and pretend they weren't menstruating since it was unclean and taboo. Monkey cultures would lock away women during menstruation to free bleed into holes.

>>18073321
How, without pants?

>>18073462
By using materials like papyrus, cotton, wool, etc like a tampon and sticking it in.

>>18073318
huh AI is decent at Latin