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The ladies using period blood for face masks14 Images Unless periods are rigorously monitored and synchronised, the universe might descend into chaos. Not less than that’s what men was apprehensive about, in line with anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss’ study of Indigenous myths of North and South America. Throughout history, menstrual blood has been the topic of mythical taboos, and today it remains to be heavily stigmatised and excluded from on a regular basis discussion. Menstrual blood is seen as threatening in its transgression of bodily boundaries between inside and outdoors, private and public. This, combined with its inherent power, has endowed it with mystical properties which were revered and practiced ritualistically for hundreds of years. In ancient Rome, Pliny the Elder argued that...