Ruby calls for better education and a more informed approach to women’s health: ‘Why are still girls having to raise their hands or show red cards to say that they need to go to the toilet?,’ she asks. She gets hundreds of messages like these. Filthy and trashy – that’s all that comes to mind.
I’ve just shown my wife your disgusting advert and she was equally shocked.
One has to wonder what type of disgusting humans feel the need for this type of gutter advertising. One man wrote to her: ‘Companies like yours who feel the need to show the public disgusting sights of blood clots dropping on the shower floor. Society has some waking up to do, Ruby, who regularly receives streams of hate online, believes. Shame around periods remains today, according to Ruby Raut, who was born in Nepal and was banished for bleeding when she started her periods.Īs a menstruating teenager, Ruby was told she was ‘untouchable’ for seven days, that she should avoid contact with any men or going into the kitchen. Ruby, now a menstrual health expert, launched WUKA period-proof underwear in response.
Period products of the eighties and nineties came with a heavy dose of shame they were advertised as being ‘discreet’, and inexplicably shown absorbing blue liquid instead of blood. Readers of early editions of Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret may remember being bamboozled by a mysterious contraption known as a sanitary belt, which was taken out of later editions when disposable pads became common. Period products of the eighties and nineties came with a heavy dose of shame (Picture: Getty Images)īefore the 19th Century, doctors didn’t realise periods were linked to ovulation and sanitation wear wasn’t even developed until the First World War when nurses realised disposable cellulose bandages they used on wounded soldiers were so good at absorbing blood (previously they had been using rags, cotton or sheep’s wool).
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