Who cares if men think menstruation is dirty?
Why should I endure the mess, pain, inconvenience and aggravation of a period just because if I don’t, it might come to seem even dirtier than it already does in the eyes of a small group of neanderthal men? Those are not people anyone should want to be involved with under any circumstances. Make your decision based on what you want, if some guy doesn’t like it, tough for him. — bublsort [Read bublsort’s other letters] Permalink Friday, April 20, 2007 03:29 PM PDT two questions Whenever I read an article about menstrual supression, two questions come up, and I’ve never seen them answered: 1. As other commenters have asked, how would you tell if you’re pregnant? 2. What happens to your uterine lining? When I take my pills for three straight weeks as prescribed, my uterus builds up a lining and sheds it during the fourth week when I stop taking hormones. My uterus obviously has no way of knowing whether or not I intend to permit it to menstruate, so that suggests that hormonal regulatio