Disclaimer: Words like vagina, menstruation and period are used in this article. If you’re immature about this, please skip.
For a depressingly long time, periods were meant to be gross. The ads still use the pristine blue liquid instead of, you know, blood (eww!), chemists wrap the sanitary pads in ugly black poly bags, so no one gets to know (a national secret even though half the population goes through it every month) and in many parts of India, women are still “impure” and cannot enter the kitchen “in that time of the month”!
But something is shifting, and it might be thanks to menstrual cups or the mooncups. For the uninitiated, these are bell shaped cups made from non toxic silicon, you insert in the vagina to store the menstrual blood. Once full, it can be emptied into the toilet, washed and re-inserted. Unlike pads or tampons, they can be left in there for 12 hours.