<div class="row-fluid"> <div class="span6"> <h5>FACT</h5> <p>None of these beliefs are correct. Periods are natural and normal for women. Menstrual fluid is just a harmless mixture of blood and tissue that was not used by your body to nourish a baby in the Womb.</p> <p>This myth is often used as a reason to stop women, who are having their periods, from taking part in various social events. This happens especially in the case of religious events.</p> </div> <div class="span6"> <img width="380" height="317" alt="Illustration of a menstruating woman experiencing pain due to cramps while in the shadow she looks like a demon to depict the menstrual myth that menstruating women are cursed - Menstrupedia" src="/assets/quickguide/myths/cursed-impure.jpg"/> </div></div>
MYTH: A menstruating woman is impure, dirty, sick or even cursed.
FACT
None of these beliefs are correct. Periods are natural and normal for women. Menstrual fluid is just a harmless mixture of blood and tissue that was not used by your body to nourish a baby in the Womb.
This myth is often used as a reason to stop women, who are having their periods, from taking part in various social events. This happens especially in the case of religious events.
