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time periods: a history of menstrual products at gURL.com
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Welcome to gURL's history of menstrual products.

By Heather Bradley, Ashley Feucht and Martina Fugazzotto


Ever since the first cave-woman got her period, she had to find some way to handle it. After all, you can't have blood on the floors of your cave! What would the neighbors think?

Nowadays we have an entire aisle of menstrual products to choose from, but in the past, menstruating women relied on some pretty strange and intriguing products. Click on the dates in the timeline above (or the arrow below) and see what we mean.

Want to know even more about menstruation? Check out these amazing resources: The Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health and "The Curse, A Cultural History of Menstruation"

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