Remedies, cloths and tampons: how women have managed their period over the centuries

Washable pads, sponges and menstrual panties: women have access to new options for their period days for a few years. “It took us a very long time to offer periodical products that meet the needs and comfort of women”notes Elise Thiébaut, author of “This is my blood” (The Discovery, 2017).

At the same time, the subject of menstruation emerges in the public debate. On social networks, accounts such as “Coup de sang” inform young people and associations, such as Elementary rules, fight against menstrual precariousness. And ads now depict period blood as red liquid instead of blue.

The sign of the end of taboo ? “Speech has been freed up in an exceptional way over the past five years, but only in certain backgrounds, certain generations, certain countries“nuance Elise Thiébaut.

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