Getting Your Period in the Middle Ages...
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- Menstruation is a milestone in the life of any girl or woman. A biological phenomenon that changes her body and her social standing. But what about women who lived during the Middle Ages? Knowing what we do about Medieval hygiene it’s hard not to feel sympathy for them, without the convenience of modern pads and tampons. Did they understand what was happening to their bodies during their period? What sort of sanitary products and pain relief did they use? Why did the Medievals believe that menstrual blood was poisonous and could trigger some quite shocking magical feats? And why were medieval women wearing pouches filled with the ashes of burnt toads? Welcome to Medieval Madness.
0:00 Introduction
0:51 Lady Time
1:51 The Curse
3:58 Strawberry Week
6:24 On The Rag
7:57 Aunt Flow
9:23 Surfing the Crimson Wave
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Narrated by James Wade
Written by Lisa E Rawcliffe
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Alternate title: Getting your medieval period in the Medieval Period.
Or not getting your medieval period at all and having a medieval baby.
This deserves all the likes!
this made me laugh way more than it should have
🤣🤣🤣
Vote to reupload with that title. 😂
Women: menstruate
Men: “What sorcery is this?”
But also telling women they can control if a baby is male or female...when it's legit the man's sperm that has that part of the DNA. LOL 😂
If men got periods there would be a pad and tampon dispenser fully stocked in every public building and the bathrooms would never be closed. Also they'd cost less and you could buy them at the beer store.
@@ari3lz3pp and either way it miscarries if her body decides. Which is fortunate as kids are vastly overrated time and financial sink holes.
@@Adrastia or lcbo? :o)
*exists.
There are a few billion still like that today.
This is the kind of history we want. Also those poor women
Amen amen❤
right, ever since i got my period i would wonder “how did women in old times do it?” and it’s kind of crazy how we still don’t really know how they did. we just know about the myths men spread about how unclean it is. i’m very thankful i live in times where i can have a period comfortably (which is saying something because there’s nothing comfortable about a period)
Why ‘those poor women’? That statement is only by your standards, but their standards and beliefs were perfectly normal to them in their times. Childbirth was also without modern drugs, well that is actually do-able now too, I gave birth twice without any drugs or monitoring (my choice).
@@serenitybay5544 yeah well honestly based on your previous comments you're 75 and probably find problems with everything. Also your comment really shows a lack of understanding and sympathy which just further adds to the boomer narrative going on atm.
@@serenitybay5544 I did the same with my two oldest children. I and my third child needed a bit of ass-istance (maternity humor) when it became apparent that I needed an episiotomy because he was a big boy with a big head😏
Our poor ancestors... They have been through so much during their lives. No woman should have been treated like that.
Right?? My poor lady ancestors omg. My period just ended and I'm undoubtedly grateful for modern sanitation and period products
Yet it still happens in 2023 within a certain religion..
If you are thinking Islam, yes, menstruating women are still considered impure. They cannot go to the mosque, and if they want to read the Quran at home, they can't touch the book, they have to use a sort of stick to turn the pages. And as to the cleansing they have to go through after each period, I once came across a 30’ video detailing the whole process (which did not include a shower and soap), with explicit details on how to be sure that your period is really over.
@@elin_not just a certain religion, it’s multiple!
@@jada6lu3islam is worst, tightly followed by extreme christians
Honestly, as a woman who menstruates....the description by the midwife had me howling 'sometimes....' so chaotic and accurate.
Thank you for sharing. Just to offer a different viewpoint here: As another woman who menstruates (AKA a woman 🙂), I relish my periods as a time of rest and deep connectedness to self and Spirit. I'm extremely grateful I'm not malnourished and healthy and get to have enjoyable, regular cycles.
What is a woman who menstruates?! Isn't that just a damn woman? This world is truly going mad.
@lr2564 nearly spat out my tea, cos nothing much has changed 😂
Those are the comments of a grizzled combat veteran who's done multiple bloody tours of duty...
@@SE-ve9gxI love your perspective. Being able to process emotions on a Rollercoaster means I never repress anything for long. It's not all bad having a period.
I’m 70 and it’s amazing how much better it is now,compared to when I was young. Closer to the middle ages than you think. Pads were made from paper then that didn’t really protect you. Had to go home from school twice because it went through. In the end I just stayed home the first 2 days.
I’m the last generations, I think, that had to cope with this problems, because then there were the pads with a plastic film in it. That was such an improvement. And finally there was Always with it wings, that was heaven.
And also came the Pill, that dealt with cramps, extreme blood loss, anemia, and other inconveniences. Menstruation was finally civilized.
Always with wings is one of the best inventions ever created!
My poor knows exactly what you're talking about, she's 75yrs old. The horror stories both her and my Grandmother told me were next level.
Nature really screwed us over in that regard. No other mammal has to deal with this. Just human females. Well and some other great apes, but still not to the extent, we have to suffer every months.
@@raraavis7782 evolution is a bitch....literally
Period poverty is real though - poorer women especially in some Asian and African countries have to use rags due to pads or God forbid tampons being simply too expensive or not available.
I was just remembering the other day how I and other girls missed one to two or more school days each month. Then it occurred to me that was like 20 days or almost a whole month of school days missed every school year.
It was the norm. Now I think missing that much school would get reported. So thankful that there are drugs to take and products to use to make menstruation bearable.
I wonder whether some of the prohibitions of sex during menstruation didn’t originate with women who just wanted to be left alone with their cramps. Saying your blood was toxic was probably more effective than saying you really weren't in the mood.
😂
True.
Friendly correction here! ❤
No Christians who studied the word of Jesus would damn women for being women, nor to say they are to be treated poorly due to their cycle.
There were added Jewish laws (just like with the Catholic Church corrupting the messages of both new and old Testament...) It was not what was the "inspired word of God" acknowledged by the original texts. There were religious leaders of the Hebrews that developed their own additional arguments against women sometimes, and/or their menstrual cycles. And it could depend on tribe as well.
It makes sense that women would not partake in certain activities during their cycle since they didn't have the same resources for cleanliness that we do today.
The crazy thing is pain during the cycle is actually unusual in general. It's typically due to an imbalance of your bodies natural homeostasis, and endochrine system.
I don't know what endochrine disruptors they would've been exposed to then, other than perhaps certain herbs (especially if hiding the smell). Lavender and soy are two common endocrine disruptors in our lives today that they certainly had back then in many places. Lavender anyway. Certain breeds of trees can also have wood that is more allergy-inducing. Add into this the environment of being too cold/warm, and not hygienic and it makes sense they had pain then. But it's more common now.
Growing up I know it was acceptable to expect you'll have pain. My grandparents generation of women seemed to find it odd as well, though some not so much. They were the first generation to have a major push of pharmaceuticals and "eco washing" of toxic synthetics as well. Perhaps it not only affected them but their offspring.
On top of the consistent increase we have had considering the misleading lies about how natural products are terrible, yet the synthetic alternatives are much more destructive to environment and consumer alike almost every time. Instead of having better farming and harvesting techniques, taking care of the Earth as we are asked to do in the Bible! ❤
@@ari3lz3ppthank you for clearing for other people 😝
True, but men wouldn’t have cared enough to even listen to those wymyn. They were just property
Cramps go away if you have sex. Cramps also go away if you do sports.
As always, women knew much more than they told men, even back then.
Reminder:
the subject is "getting your period in the middle ages"
I mean if they were to tell the men theyd end up being called witches and burnt alive soooooo
Women*
Midwives knew what they were doing. Male physicians, however, decided they knew better and came in and pushed a lot of the midwives out over time. A lot of the women's practices were orally passed down, which is why most of the medical writings about women that we have from that time period were written by men.
They probably did tell them but didn't believe them
About quantum physics and nuclear fusion.
My dad was a bit older when my sister and I were born. Periods weren't a big topic of conversation in our house lol. Way back when my sister was a teenager, she went on a camping trip with my dad and one of his friends. Poor thing wasn't expecting her period to come so early and so my sister wasn't prepared. Apparently, my sweet dad jumped right in, running to the store, buying her new clothes in town, making her take it easy... he was a real trooper. Ofc we went back to not talking about periods, but it was nice seeing my dad hold it together when men of his generation never expected to have to think about such things.
Thanks for the video... I've occasionally wondered how women dealt with menstruation way back when.
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Your dad was a true gentleman. Sounds like he completely understood what he needed to support your sister without shaming her. 🌷My dad was good about things like that. 🌷
What a fabulous Dad❤
@@OceanSwimmer He really was. I so miss that man. So happy you had a similar father.
That's so sweet! I was fortunate to have men in my life that weren't grossed out by periods, my dad would buy mom and I tampons on the way home from work, I had friends shocked when I told them.
Sand wrapped in a cloth like bloody kitty litter. The most metal way to period I've ever heard! 🤯
I’m sorry, but if there’s anyplace on my body where I REALLY don’t want to walk around with a bag of sand, it’s in my lady bits. Has to be the most sensitive skin on our bodies.
fasttracking a uti with that one
It's actually not as mental as what many chicks use today. Including myself before I learned. Lol I now use organic cotton pads most times but sometimes an organic cotton tampon or platinum silicone disc.
Vs toxic synthetics like rayon/bamboo/viscose...and wood pulp- YUCK! Though it's hard to get away from that for a core if you want absorbtion. At least if there's enough cotton in between. And not all wood is equal. Some of highly carcinogenic and allergenic, while others are not proven to be at all.
But this is an issue that's quite modern, we have many endocrine disruptors and toxins pushed in our lives from polyurethane and vinyl/PVC to PEGs, and even natural lavender and soy that are ok in lower levels intermittently , but are in SO many products today that it adds up in the body changing our very chemistry. Especially on top of all the other ones. They simply didn't use to have as many in the olden days. It picked up in the 1950s & 1960s.
It's no surprise we have so much disease and issues with hormones regardless of our biotech advances. Doesn't help that many sociopaths and psychopaths, narcissists...enjoy being at the top of the ladder in these industries.
Search for truth! ❤
Sand absolutely shouldn't be used! It might cause damage to the clitoris and such delicate tissue there!
Super appreciate how respectful you were toward menstruation 😍😍 it's not always that pleasant, but I really appreciate you not taking the tack of "ewwww, periods!"
Are we seriously hyping up a grown man for not thinking a period is gross .....
I think it’s gross
@@gillianw_ I've dated grown men who thought it was gross. So...yes.
@@steppedtuba50 well you're a man from the middle ages with all the shitty opinions that come with it, congrats
@@Gilokeeomg i never met someone like that byt i only dated europeans and mexicans and they tend to be more manly when it comes to dating so they dont care about such trivial things as a few hairs or periods because it is natural if you are dating a woman. So women get to be womanly and man are manlier if tjat makes sense
As s 72 yr old woman , periods were not mentioned at all by my mother or at school ,in fact there was no mention of any bodily functions below the neck! I was 11 yrs old when it happened to me and I thought I was dying, my mother just exclaimed " oh you've started your periods" I had no idea what she was talking about, Iwent off to school with an old fashioned cotton wool sanitary towel about two inches thick held in place by an elastic suspender contraption, I still didn't know what was going on. So glad times have changed for girls today.
I'm glad you shared your story ma'am, it must've been so confusing and scary.
I can understand why women don't tell all this to men but why not tell this to their daughters??...what is the shame in telling daughters I don't understand!
It's a period drama.👀🤗🙄
LOL Nice.
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh
😀litrally
I hate period jokes, but I have to admit this got a chuckle out of me
😅😂
Having the 'monthly massacre' now-a-days sucks, I can't even imagine having to deal with that and also child birth back in the day. Much respect for the women of 'ol.
Just think, we’re only here today because our ancestresses SURVIVED! 😲
I got my period when I was in fourth grade. I knew about periods but I didn’t think it would come so soon (I was 11 years old and was told girls start to get their periods at 15) so I genuinely thought I was dying, since it was accompanied by terrible back and stomach cramps. I ran home in absolute shambles. I can’t imagine being a young girl in the Middle Ages and not knowing what was going on in my body
My daughter was 9 when she got hers and I was around 7 or 8.
you were 11 in the 4th grade?!
@@tamekaswindle3473my mum was 9 and I was a week from my 15th birthday!
@@jodifoster9820 Some people do to being born in odd months have to either go to school early or go a year later. For example my sis was born in february and so she went to school at 6
It was a couple of months before my 11th birthday. The irony is that my mother was in the bathroom with me when I saw it. That was my lifesaver
My grandma told me how she hated getting her period. You washed the rags and hung them on the clothesline. Your neighbors knew when you were on it. 1939.
I would have washed rags everyday to throw them off...😅
Wow
@@dammar117😂😂😂
Imagine a family with lots of sisters
Now lots of young women must be clear and any bags inside it must also be clear. I would have been humiliated.
It’s crazy how much shame and misinformation can still happy today. When I got my period , the blood was initially brown and I thought I had pooped my pants. I was so embarrassed and didn’t tell anyone for days. I had later learned that sometimes when blood dries it turns brown. I remember being so surprised by that
Yeah. I was almost a teenager and too embarrassed to tell anyone about it, so I just clogged it all up with toilet paper (well, it works) and tried to forget about it. I knew what was happening to me was shameful and that it happened only to girls but I didn't know why (also the pinnacle of my gender identity issues, which made this extra traumatic and shameful, and upset over how early it was, since I was immature for my age), but since bodily issues weren't discussed in my household and I'm very insecure about it, anyway, I never told anyone. I'm almost middle-aged and my family, to this day, tell me to get myself checked out because they think I still didn't get mine. Luckily, kids at school were dirty and learned everything from TV, so I knew what it was it by listening to them being obnoxious. My thinking is medieval otherwise. Was furious when I read hat it was going to happen EVERY MONTH, and no one told me that it's also normal to skip. Then there's my sister, who just turned 14 when she got hers, and immediately asked our mother for pads. We're only 18 months apart. Funny how it's different for everyone.
😂 I'm sorry you feel that way. I don't know anyone who shames or has been shamed....but I do think some people need to be when they are purposely unhygienic. Accidents happen ❤ I have accidentally pooped myself after having a child. It wasn't a huge deal TBH but I wouldn't be like "birthing pride! Look at my skid mark everyone!!!!" You know what I'm saying??? Lol
@@phatcat3705Be aware of endochrine disruptors. ❤ Even soy and lavender are examples of natural ones that can build up and cause issues, I even have a theory that it makes gender ID issues worse. 😢 We have had a consistent increase of them in our lives since the 1950s & 1960s.
Vinyl/PVC, polyester, rayon/viscose/"bamboo fabric", pesticides...PEGs, certain dyes ...it's in medication, hygiene products, hair dyes, clothing....food.
The medical industry and academics attract people with personality disorders that don't care to harm others to feel powerful. I'm sorry to say.
I am grateful I can now homeschool my kids. They are learning great life skills, even for careers that interest them and that fit their natural proclivities. And that's since 3rd and 4th grade. They also don't fit into a box when it comes to grade level. They both have a variety of grade levels they meet. GPA is mostly about compliance.
Did you know our forefathers were mostly Satanic? Or that Christians are not really the same as Catholics in the Biblical sense? Did you know the Bible has had many events proven to be historically accurate? I'm guessing not. Carbon dating is also highly theoretical. It's always an estimate.
The only time they can get truly accurate is within a time that accuracy is defined by circumstancial evidence around the studied materials.
AnswersIn Genesis and Dr. Berg are great resources IMO.
Also make sure you look into those endochrine disruptors in your life. What your eating, eat healthy to grow. Look out for overly processed and synthetic things.
Don't fear growing. ❤ You're meaningful as who you are. Most of your preferences will change with time. That's just human and honest. Your body and your feelings will also change. It's normal. It's life. Learning healthy boundaries and how to cope is vital!
If you have those things but still just can't stand your healthy body then perhaps it's in some way unhealthy, and needs to be balanced. Most doctors don't seem interested in that. In keeping your homeostasis where it needs to be. And plenty have incentive to not bother.
For example, my friend who is male, had low testosterone. He wasn't tested by the doctors that gave him hormone therapy. They made his problem worse by giving him estrogen. He legit felt he would be better off and happier with his body. He now has breasts and a shrunken ....area...more medical issues than make sense for his lifestyle other than the endochrine disruptors he takes for medication. (And perhaps a few like vinyl in his life). He has major highs and lows as if he is eternally in puberty, after 13 years of this now and he's about to be 40.
He admits he should've had long term CBT or similar therapy, and considered the hormone tests to be more than a "sign" enabling him to go ahead with the hormones therapy. Now he's been so bullied by the same community that celebrated him for being gay then trans, and he just wants to be a straight man again. But he's afraid. He's only happy when he's drinking, doing drugs, or high on a new failure of a toxic relationship. It's just how it seems to go in many cases.
Do your research! Consider your sources!!! ❤ There are people who love you for who you are, and genuinely care, and they might not always tell you what you want to hear but what you need to. And the most powerful being of all time and space loves you beyond comprehension. 🙏✨🌈💚
I was just the same ,thought I’d messed myself !
It's hard to believe that dealing with periods didn’t progress much until the mid 20th century. My Grandma, who was young girl in the 1930's said she had to stuff wool in her underwear which got hard as pumice stone when it absorbed blood and it cut into her inner thighs. She said she had to pretend she was playing hop-scotch on the way to school so she would have an excuse not to walk with her legs close together 😢
? Wool shouldn't do that! Lol I use wool for many things and that doesn't happen. I'm sorry to inform you it's better than most products today.
My Granny who was born in 1908 told me women used cloth rags which they could washout and reuse every month.
and back in the 70s, Chinese women were still using cloth rags....
It’s amazing that all of these men had so much to say about women’s bodies and experiences, as well as try to legislate them. Some things haven’t changed.
They are uneducated men
The sad reality is that even today hundreds of years later there's still some people out there who are immature, treat women badly over it, see it as some disgusting thing, think we magically have control over it, don't believe us when it comes to the pain, and think we're faking it or being babies. My period has always been really bad- really bad cramping (so bad that i'll literally be in tears if I don't take a pain killer and even then it only takes the edge off doesn't take away all the pain and I have to take it before the bad cramping starts or else it won't work at all but thankfully i've got my cycle down to a T so I can easily tell when it's starting- keep in mind I have a high pain tolerance), my boobs get so tender and sore can't even touch them or wear a bra without it being uncomfortable, really bad swelling/bloat (so bad I damn near go up a size or two and can't wear anything or else it'll push into my stomach and hurt), really bad heavy bleeding (I can wear a pad and a tampon at the same time and still bleed through everything), etc it's bad enough to where there's no way in hell I can function being out of my house for that time (thankfully it always falls on days i'm off but when I was in school it sucked and many times had to go to the nurse and be sent home or had to go home because I bled through my clothes and didn't have a change of clothes) really the only positive out of it is that my period only lasts 4 days with the first 2 being really bad and the 3rd being mellow then by the 4th i'm pretty much done minus some really small discharge of blood. I've lost count how many times in my life someone didn't believe me, thought I was blowing it up out of proportion, thought it was disgusting, acted like I was choosing to have it and that it wasn't a natural part of being a woman, etc. So I can't imagine what our women ancestors went through when it was much much worse (so much so that they literally thought it was a curse and punishment 🤦🏻♀️) but thankfully for them and their strength things improved for us, they can still be bad but not even a fraction as bad as they had it.
To much information about you!!!
You might consider hormonal birth control (fixed my terrible terrible periods-and now i can fix them if I want) or something like nexplanon that might just stop it completely! Also, switch to the cup!! The cup was a game changer for me!
Well,anything that bleeds for weeks and don't die is quite mysterious..
@@pamavery9352You sound just as daft as the people in this documentary. 🖤
I’m so sorry you got through all that and I’m sorry so many people just don’t understand what women like us go through. ❤
You know, I always wondered about this. What did our ancestors think of menstruation? How did historical women deal with it? This is very interesting. Menstruation has got to be the most maligned bodily function from a cultural perspective.
I don’t know about that. We are all pretty repulsed by any bodily excretions.
A lot of the time sadly, it was a mark that they were “unclean” in cultures that had that attitude. That or it was a symbol of life or something related to purity.
You must understand that modern plumbing did not exist, so washing was a problem. In a kind of society that lived close to nature, a woman bleeding would attract animals.
Jewish women had to take a monthly ceremonial bath in the mikvah to ensure they were ritually clean to have sex with their husbands. They also had a purification ceremony after having a baby 30 to 60 days after giving birth. Medieval women had a churching ceremony after giving birth too.
Well named, The Curse, made my life miserable every month for an entire week.
Omg, I never realised just how powerful we are! Go us! Walking around cracking mirrors, turning wine sour, and slowly exterminating the world’s bee population is it any wonder we’re exhausted all the time?
That was an awesome video, thanks James & Lisa
Makes me all the more grateful to be born in this time period and not back then LoL 😅
"Ugh pads and tampons shouldn't be free, women should just hold their blood until they get to a toilet" is one of the funniest and most infuriating myths I've personally heard.
As far as we've come in medical science and understanding as a society, stigma is still a popular teacher
....if pads and tampons should be free then so should toilet paper, erectile dysfunction pills, food.......sorry this is the world and that's not how any of this works. We all have to contribute something. Lol That's how we grow as a people.
And I agree we have both come far in science and also are still very regressed. Most people don't ask the right questions and don't bother to think beyond the first blip on G00Gle.
We have so many toxins and endochrine disruptors produced today in the name of being "green" which is a joke. And we have women bombarding their bodies with these toxins and endocrine disruptors at alarming rates. And men doing the same.
The medical industry is opportunistic and becomes mele totalitarian every day, more people with personality disorders than ever it seems. They are drawn to positions of power, even teaching if they can't cut it in the medical field. No pun intended.
Our schools are atrocious. Educational standards are very much non-existent in most districts but then again they are commonly funded by people that want the majority of people just smart enough to do what they are told and not enough to take a peek behind the curtains.
Parents that think parenting is a bad thing, and that abuse is good. Neglect better though to most. That having strangers raise your kids is smart, and that your body is only valuable by giving it away for free to people based on the most basic animalistic instincts and we call it progress.
Most young adults can't find their way through a 30 minute hike using a map, wouldn't have a clue how to live without their cell phones, air conditioning , etc...how to provide food for themselves if the chain of manufactured food goes bunk.
Most in the USA don't even know how their government works and they believe the preschool rendition of our forefathers being cool Christian dudes just trying to fight authority. When I reality most were proven to be Satanic wealthy opportunists using titles like "Christian" to win the public.
Don't get me started on the discrepancies between Catholic and Christian...and how for so long people have been deceived about what the Bible means even though it is legitimately not that hard to understand if you try. Most don't know that much of the Bible is proven true...
Or that carbon dating is highly theoretical.
I'll stop here. I'm tired and on a rant, I hope you are inspired to seek truth.
@@ari3lz3pp totally agree! Meds, food, etc should be free to those who need it :)
@@ari3lz3pp you deadass just compared menstruation with erectile dysfunction get a grip 💀💀 toilet paper is free in most public bathrooms anyway but i don't see you complaining about that
@@ari3lz3pptheres a big difference between piss and shit, which you can hold for a certain amount of time and make it to a toilet, to menstrual blood which we have zero control to when it drops. Im not even going to entertain the erectile dysfunction comment as that has zero to do with anything. Are you dense?
So glad I was born when I was, 1960. My mom and her four sisters had to use literal rags and wash them out. Mom was born in 1924.
Sanitary napkins already existed in 1924, but not everybody could afford them, especially in rural areas. Did your mother and aunts grow up on a farm?
My grandma was born in 1941, in the UK and apparently they had belts which held up sanitary pads.
My mum was born in 1960 and things had improved a bit by then.
Mom was born in 1936 and she used cotton. Even in 1990 I think but surely in 1987 when I started. I never used that, we had so much better options at that time!
Rags don't seem the best but not so horrible, there were many things I consider worse in the past for a woman. But I never used rags, surely that method have its many problems... Especially when the blood dries.
I often wonder how women handled when they just couldn't change. Some women even went into war masquerading as boys... How did they do it? But working all day in the fields while bleeding couldn't have been good either. Even without pain. My pain tolerance is pathetic and I am very glad I never had any but I feel so much for all the women who have pain especially when it's great and it's way too common. So unfair :(
By the way, once I met a man who had some prostate problem and wasn't embarrassed to complain about it, telling women are so very lucky not having such problems. Yes, it's not like women have any kind of pain or disease men can't get... They even get regular pain as normal... But yes, women are very lucky not knowing the pain of men...
I couldn't imagine. My sister gets extremely bad ones, accompanied by pain bad enough to have her crying on the floor from it. I can't imagine her living with this 80 years ago, let alone in the medieval times. Going to the bathroom in general, though.
@@shiNIN42 Yeah, I was wondering the same thing about women who'd fought wars disguising themselves as men a long time ago. There's no way someone couldn't have noticed, like a shift in movement to ease discomfort or if one came unexpectedly, unless they used the rags 24/7 in case. There wasn't toilet paper to dispose of, so I could imagine those rags they used for this problem took a while to wash and dry out.
I know things aren’t perfect now but man am I glad I live in the 21st century lol
I appreciate you handling this topic so respectfully! (Not something I see often from men.) I also enjoy all the fun names for menstruation in between topics! I try to use a different euphemism myself each month.
I wrote an article about this once. Short version: ancient women used all kinds of crazy things. Medieval to 20th century women seem to have just let it rip.
Factor this into your time travel plans.
What do you mean "let it rip"? Various sources describe types of pads.
What does that even mean lol
You really think a working woman ora nobel woman would just let it flow out all the time? They might have lived in the past but they weren’t animals, heck even animals like being clean
@@Pollicina_db emm yeah let it rip was definitely a thing.
i'll be bringing my pills with me to time travel, thank you
"strawberry week" had me cracking up. I've never heard that term.😂
My great-grandmother had to work on the fields in her youth. They were so poor they didnt eaven had underwear. The blood was just running down their legs. That was not in the middle ages, but Eastern Europe in the victorian era. (Thats why women wore long skirts!) Rich women had underwear and put a thick layer of cotton inside. Intersting facts, the anchient Egyptians were the first to use tampons. They rolled them from Papyrus.
Hmm. I wonder if that's true. Lol Papyrus sounds mighty uncomfortable.
Ancient Greek and Byzantine women used sea sponges, but I don’t know whether they were worn internally, or externally.
My great grandmother was very poor as well, this was in Mexico.
She and her family actually lived on dirt floors.
Despite being as poor as she was she still did her best to help others when she could, like giving out what little food they had to people even more poor than her.
I'm not sure when she was born but I estimate it to be around 1905 or so.
My grandmother was born in 1929 and I know my great grandma had her children young so probably around that time.
We called her gramita and now her daughter, my grandmother, has recently passed away, just this last November.
I loved them both dearly.
Rest in heavenly peace abuela and gramita ❤
@@ari3lz3ppEver not inserted a tampon not quite far enough? Or pulled out one that wasn't quite saturated? One word: sandpaper.
My grandmother even gave birth to my father while digging for potatoes, brought him home, and went back to the field - easy peasy routine, as he was already her second child, no great deal, business as usual - NOT.
AAARGH! I faint even thinking about this! She was a really tough cookie, and I heard this story not only from my own mother, but from my great-aunt, her sister. Women were tougher then. I do not think that I could have survived two world wars, like both my grandmothers did!
My other grandmother told me exactly the same as you relate here - underwear for women only became a thing since the early 1920s. She and her schoolmates accidentally became aware that one of them (who was very arrogant and rude to all others) did not wear panties under her skirt, which at the time (ca. 1921) must have become increasingly rare, and they used it to give her an comeuppance - nothing to be proud of in hindsight, as she put it, but at the time liberating for everybody hurt by her obnoxious behaviour.
The episode stays with me since my childhood, because I still can not find an answer to my first thought "How on earth can anybody leave the house going commando?!?".
To see the "underpants" common in the Victorian era, which basically consisted of two trouserlegs (like cowboy chaps) joined at the waist, but not in the middle, thus leaving a giant cleft, is a sobering experience. I hope that the massive skirts kept the exposed lady parts warm...
I always was, and sometimes still am, envious of men, because they do not experience the difficulties we women have when it comes to relieving one's stomach, especially in the great outdoors (not only bears sh*t in the woods, oh no). I could tell some anecdotes from my time in the military pertaining to al fresco relief - BUT WON'T. I spare you (and myself) the recollection of my humiliation until another time.
I can’t express how much I appreciate this video. The writing and narration, calling out the ignorant opinions and attitudes is EVERYTHING!! Thank you!!
I honestly can't fathom how women lived back then, especially without the pads and painkillers, my period is so painful and I have to take something to ease the pain, so just the idea that back then they had nothing makes me sad for the many souls that had to suffer for days every month.
I genuinely can't imagine a worse hell than having to toil in the fields all day with bad cramps, and not being allowed any pain relief (if they even had anything that helped)
At the time, there was poppy syrup, which was a strong opiate and they could also grate willow bark into wine, which was their version of taking an Aspirin. Peasants may not have had access to these things though. Pure hell having to work through it.
heat? awe yeah, excersise does help relieve the pain though
nice, most months I try to just use heat but end up with burns on my stomach, cause advil kills my stomach for weeks after, I would rather something more natural that helps but cant do drugs or drink cause I am sober @@execbum1
Why? Not all of us have painful periods. It's really not a big deal. Sheesh
@@rachelbachel2obviously not all but a lot do, don’t downplay their pain
Mom of 13 yo and 10 yo daughters here. I’ve officially turned into my mother … cleaning my oldest’s period stained underwear with a toothbrush to get the blood out. I would have died sending this into the laundry when I was her age. But my younger sister didn’t care! As a mom … after a zillion diaper changes I can officially say it’s no big deal to help my girls out with this next phase.
Just use hydrogen peroxide…. Much easier
This is so sweet, mothers are truly the most loving on this planet
Cold water and oxyclean max force are the way to go lol
sometimes to me it seems like the hatred of women all stems from menstruation/pregnancy. men being jealous that they can't carry life, and like, you know that she's the mother (bc the baby just came out of her) but you can't always for sure know who the father is. Some kind of jealously of that in some way.
imo it's never a curse it's just so uncomfortable because we're being forced to live lives built around testosterone. We *still* know barely anything about women's bodies and hormone cycle.
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That's an interesting viewpoint
Yeah but oddly enough some of the bible has been mistranslated from its hebrew form to be more against women like adding eve when it was ad. am half and half and not eve who took the fruit. And King James may have done a great job fixing some things from the Geneva bible and how he organized it and translated some words to be more exact, he was rumored to be gay and just hate women. So that could be part of this, its a beautiful book and channeled Gods and angelic word imo, and Jesus or Yeshua his teachings and commandments replaced all the overly religious stuff that the pharisees who were posessed with the spirit of religion used on him to condemn him. But the Catholic church ignored thjat and just went on with their religious fanatics. Its sad really cause in a lot of ways when ypu read it you realise those at the top dont even follow it or attempt too and just condemn
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Are men really jealous though? Nothing about pregnancy or giving birth seems the slighest bit pleasant. I always assumed people were just willing to go through it because they want a baby badly enough to put up with it
I’m just so happy to be alive today. We are all built from strong stock. We have a great responsibility to generations after us, don’t we?
I love watching those kinds of videos because the way he explains makes it so much more interesting, not like I history classes. I have ti learn all myself because in classes teachers never explain things well so this makes it so much easier to learn.
I love your videos, thank you!
Thank you so much for this video and handling the topic so respectfully. It is sincerely appreciated more than you know!!!
Before I would always say I was born in the wrong era, because of the period dramas I used to watch. Now I am older and knowing more about the old days, I changed my mind lol I am happy here.
This is my number one favorite channel, and it’s topics like this that make it that way. Thank you for treating this delicate issue with respect. Thank you for sharing 💜
I love the way you handled this topic!
It would be very interesting to compare all this to other cultures and religions.
I can't imagine intentionally putting sand anywhere near my lady bits. Not only would it chafe the area but it filters and holds onto all the impurities from water
Heard a female comedian once say she hated going to the beach because the sand got into all her nooks and crannies especially her cranny.😂
They must have sown the sand in between a couple of pieces of cloth... so I'm just imagining women walking around with -basically- a hackeysack between their legs.... And because they didn't know about bacteria, they didn't boil the "sacks", hence it was a great breeding ground for bacteria.... yikes!
Riight... I remember being in middle school and they showed a film in health where the girl got her period and they went out for ice cream. I gave it the side eye, I was young but I knew it was lies, lol! Ahh... the 80s.
More truth then than today. Lol Consistently it gets worse and worse since at least the 1950s. Endochrine disruptors and toxins in "eco synthetics" don't help.
As always,...Women endure. Tale old as time.
Disposable ready made sanitary pads was not available until the 1920s. Pads were made at home out of cotton or linen folded up and pinned to clothes. Sometimes newspapers were added as absorbent layer.
Thank you for addressing this topic! I have always wondered how half the world was dealing with this in the past. Historians love to talk about war and sex but no one explains the truly interesting stuff (not that it is well documented, so I somewhat understand).
Amazing content as always!!!!
I have heard that in mid Europe sometimes used menstrual blood for remedies, as they were thinking it’s sacred. Probably if it ever worked it was due to the high hormonal content the blood had.
*Lady Time* …excellent intro to this topic. Thanks M.M.
This is my new fav channel! 😍
Thank you for covering this topic! That was really interesting
Strawberry week, never heard that one before haha
Yikes! I'm so glad to be living in this century.
@@jaya-squishiehuntr019 I said 'century' not 'country'
This was great. Glad I don't have to use a poor toad to stop the crimson tide. The one about sand was interesting. Liked haveing some non-western medieval history.
I had to be on progesterone only pill to stop extremely long periods that left me with severe anemia, thanks to medicine for that, now I don’t have anemia anymore and can carry a normal life without worrying about periods!
When a man introduced the video, I thought that surely, and hopefully, a woman was about to come talk more in depth about fhe topic...but nope. And it was a pleasant surprise! Well done, sir! ❤I have so much respect for how you presented this.
i would NOT survive back then
Thank you for raising this interesting issue!
Did you know the native( first people ) women in Australia literally dug a hole in the ground and sat over it for the duration. Some cultures build huts on the outskirts of the village for the women on their periods and they couldn't leave the hut till the cycle was complete, no communication was allowed either. Ahhh, how far we have come from menstral-holes in the ground.
How does that even work? It lasts almost a week…
@@pmwyy it's a long time to be "kept away"....ain't it.
Like in the novel The Red Tent
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I loved that book and the movies
the fact that some of these ideas are still spread today lol I used to think my period was waste that my body was cleaning out..
Just ended my period today (tmi but I think I'm in the right place), and I couldn't be more grateful to be able to go to work, or social events knowing I have tampons and ibuprofen in my purse for such occasions, and use the toilet whenever needed. It is still a taboo subject, particularly where men are concerned, but again, this video makes it clear how far we've come, and why there should be no stigma on this subject, anymore than pooping, anyway. Thank goodness for science and education.
Very informative and a bit outrageous! Thank you for this video 🙈🙉🙊
Ok ngl I kind of gawked when the guy asked if we knew wheere "on the rag" comes from....because really, that's a practice that didn't fade into obscurity until pretty recently if we're looking at all of known human history. My grandmother could tell you that.
I cannot imagine not being able to take a nice hot shower or bath during your period to feel clean. OR before Ibuprofen for pain. NOPE
There are a LOT of channels I watch about history of all periods and sometimes the channels are a hit or miss. Sometimes I find that a narrator sounds a bit misogynistic or are just not very understanding of what women went through for most of history and it rubs me the wrong way a little bit...so I was a tad skeptical of how this video would be given the content and fact that I haven't watched other videos from this channel, just happened to find this scrolling on my RUclips home page. I'm 8 mins in and this guy has some of the BEST takes lmao. Could not have said it better myself. Cheers!
Really GREAT video!! Thank you.
"Sex with a woman on her period was thought to cause leprosy, damage the penis or cause epilepsy."
I'm sorry, i almost choked on my water when i heard that 😂😂😂😂😂
Excellent video. As a guy, I really didn't fully "get it" until I had a wife and daughter. They taught me a lot, as did the many female comments to this video.
And to think that manufacturers have only just been testing pads etc with actual blood since 2023. Car manufacturers are only just recently testing safety features on female test dummies, scientists are only just now figuring out what causes morning sickness during pregnancy. Advancements in female health are only just now becoming important it seems. Very sad it has taken so long, but so happy that things are hopefully moving in the right direction.
This may seem encouraging, but in the light of the past ca. three years it seems to me as if this is the last stand before we will become eradicated. For me the most poignant sign of the times: Germany's Next Top Model in 22 (IIRC) was a trans female.
They are replacing female models the world over already, because their inherently masculine bodies do not change shape due to period cycles (female hormones -> water retention -> weight gain, body shape differences, mood swings, food cravings), and their size stays the same and accords to what most designers create - fashion not for often "wobbly" and curvaceous women, but for feminine, slender men.
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-> Young M2F "influencers" can suggest that they also suffer from period cramps, and accordingly writhe on their beds, only to smuggly grin and trade this charade off as innocent joke (which period cramps are NOT), or be a model for a sports bra that is supposedly designed to support FEMALE breasts - this is so INSULTING for me, who had to undergo breast reduction surgery (how to lose three kilograms in five hours) due to massive spinal column and breathing issues, and who not even now can find a really well-fitting sports bra for my still ample enough oompahs. This is a whole new level of period shaming, as it comes from persons who only want to be like us, and hate us for being the real thing.
-> New surgery methods suggest that in the near future it will be possible to transplant uteruses into M2F trans "women", who then will be able to get pregnant and give birth. How do they plan to get the transplants in the first place, and how would an organ dependent on FEMALE hormones survive in a body where every cell is MALE??? Even in suppression testosterone levels in male bodies are so much higher than correspondent female levels, that no female cell can stay alive awash in male hormones.
-> In sports born men are allowed to start and win as women, just because they say they are now a woman, and nobody in a relevant position finds anything wrong with this.
These are only a few examples for many singular occurrences/trends/ developments that spontaneously cross my mind. After personal experiences in 2015 with a M2F who 1. constantly fantasised about getting impregnated, 2. was jealous of us women who had birthed children, and 3. could not understand why (s)he could not sway the MAN of their dreams to get intimate with them (easy: it was a "normal" man, who wanted a "normal" woman, not a M2F, and had already stated this, but the person chose to not believe it, their own words!) I am really concerned that this was only a glimpse of the future where we will be replaced by men AGAIN.
In every sector that was and is precious and important for us women, nowadays men are regaining control - this time not as men, but posing as women. A fraction of XY are working on a new reality, where men are the better women, and they want not only to convince other men of this, but also us women. If this is successful, it is dangerous for everything all women before us and we ourselves have worked and often fought for.
If they do not succeed with their desired outcome, the backlash could be tremendous, and the pendulum could swing to the other extreme. In every scenario, there may be violence and hatred, and our societies will never be the same again.
Which outcome do I prefer? Preferably a non-violent and respectful one, but I am afraid this is not how it works, because we are up against genuinely male individuals who try to emulate a fantasy about being female, to get the best of both worlds. They will fight us in every way possible, and without any compassion for "fellow women" - which we are not, were not, and will never be, only where they need our solidarity, which I for one am not ready to give them.
I fear that they will also try and take first our pronouns and then our gender identity away, after they have made the issue a laughing stock, so that everybody is fed up with it and does not care any longer what will be lost. Then any concerns will be dismissed, and women will be a step closer to irrelevance, until we still exist, but are no longer consciously perceived as women, and make way for the NEW women.]
It has to get much worse until the situation can become better again.
Cramps still hit home every month 😩😭
Well I guess I’m glad that I born in the 21st century
Thanks for this video! This is the kind of history I have always wished I learned at school: how real people actually lived daily, not just a series of rich and powerful men's shenanigans at the expense of others' life.
But I still think that the refrain "women's period was stigmatized because it was lesser known" is a way too short cover for all the horrors of patriarchy. First of all, the fact itself that knowledge has been a men's thing until some 100 years ago is part of the problem. Second but not less important, before scientific method people, including highly educated ones, had basically no clue about pretty much any anatomy and physiology topic. So, why were there no stigma, no taboos and no harmful superstitions around, dunno, broken bones, the digestion process, hair loss, or, say, men's sexuality? Why these an countless other anatomical and medical issues, despite of course a variety of misconceptions and superstitions, were just addressed the best way they could with the little knowledge, technology and resources they had?
100 yrs ago my 4 grandparents were already married, ww1 had happened, and none of them lived a country life. They lived in cities. One grandmother ran a catering business along with having 6 living children. The other had 6 living children, and took in boarders. Both used rags for periods, and yes be.ieved old wives advice like when pregnant eat for two. Both gained weight and ended up with diabetes. All of my 12 au ts and undoes had good jobs msnybin trades, a d raised families giving me many cousins. So I'm not sure what your point is about 100yrs ago.
Well done. Thank you for not having the sentiments of it being gross.
thank god that stage of life is all over, hot flushes are hideous but at least smelly, blood pouring out of you every month along with liver like clots. I do not miss it.
Periods are a piece of cake compared to hot flashes.
I live in a hot climate,so in a sense it is hard to tell the difference,the worst was night sweats uuughh.
Informative, thank you .
Great videos!!!
Very impressive collection of euphemisms.
Period blood magically transformed into breastmilk? I wonder what they thought when women still menstruated while breastfeeding, cause I breastfed for 4 years & it doesn’t stop your menses entirely.
Watching this makes my cramps hurt worse 😭
Informative video. Thank you
it's honestly crazy to think that these people are the same species as us
They're not. We've been and continue to change and be altered.
Yoo the way they viewed women, thank goodness i wasnt born in this time
Frr
Back in the 70s a wise woman never wore white slacks or shorts when expecting or during “ that time of the month”. All we had when young were big, bulky pads that were clipped to a garder belt. It was such an improvement when Stayfree pads came out with the adhesive peel tape to stick it into One’s underwear! I was on the gymnastic team in high school and was certain that everybody could see this bulky pad bulging in my leotard. It affected my performance on floor routines and vault. I was shy to begin with. I just preferred to get walk-overs, splits etc, over with rather than concentrate on my extensions . My imagination and shyness held me back. I was too young for tampons.
St. John with words of wisdom 🫡
Even in the 1970s which was my mother's era, most women had to wear these awful cloth pads. Then soak them and wash them . Disposables weren't so common.
Not true. I started mine in 1970 and used Tampax tampons from the second period I had. Couldn't bear the thick cotton disposable pads my mother bought me! Tampax and other brands of tampons have been around since the 1930s
Born in 1957 - and periods in the early 1970's meant wearing a sanitary belt and thick cotton pads - they were put on the fire, or public toilets had small incinerators (in schools and workplaces too). I was not allowed to use tampons until I was about 16.
More evidence that the past was the worst!
Don’t know if you’ve already made a video like this before, but would love to see a video detailing the obsession with cats in the Medieval Period
Poor Medieval cats! They didn’t have it too good, either.
@@valerietaylor9615they didn’t did they 😞
Chinese cats?
As if having your period NOW isn't bad enough, it used to be worse!
How can a menstuating woman be considered taboo or a curse when it is a symbol of life. Her body is naturally making a nest for a baby and to carry on life yet it’s considered a curse? Is it bc the blood is considered toxic or wasteful?
Primarily because blood shed came obviously through an excessive amount of violence which was used during medieval times. Red has always been associated with Satan and period blood has for centuries been used in spell casting
Who else is watching this on their period
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My mother still used rags sewn together when she was young.
She was born in a very small village in Mexico called Xayacatlán de Bravo, and in the 60s, they were still living like it was the 40s. They're pretty much always 20+ years behind.
Watching this while on my period is certainly an experience
Tbh the medieval view of women put me off learning about it as a child (Henry was most Uk school kid’s introduction)
Still interesting but depressing , history of women is almost entirely second hand knowledge from a very sex segregated society & mostly hostile. All due to the accident of your birth. Funny the idea to me of men following Hippocrates & tying off their left testicle to try and conceive a male.
The UKs version of history is horribly biased. It's true that history is written by the victors because that's what Britain's history is, self congratulation.
@@iaminpainauchocolat9300My history lessons in the UK were all corn laws and how that affected the poor and the evils of Empire.Most countries history lessons around the world are certainly their biased view and version of it,to a greater or lesser extent!
OMG Strawberry Week sounds so much nicer than Shark Week lol, not as cool, but much less chaotic and intimidating 👌😂...
And then we get to vaginas didn't have names 🤣.. This was fun, thanks.
do you have any sources? i’d love to read more
Cheers!
Egyptian men thousands of years ago were allowed to miss work to care for their wives and daughters who were on their period. I know different time periods but I just always thought that was wholesome
I'm in my 70s, grew up in a house with my mother, father, 2 older sisters and a much younger brother. My mother was very strict about handling periods. We were to be clean and discreet. She would never have dreamed of sending my father or brother out to buy supplies. And I never talked about it with men, it was none of their business. Later I made friends with someone 22 years younger. All she bitched about was her damn period. Incredibly tiresome. What this does is superimpose an image of a bloody tampon over the idea of the person. Yecch! But I read about the women in the concentration camps in WWII. If a woman continued to menstruate, she might survive the disease, starvation and abuse. But if it stopped, she was usually doomed. I became grateful for the thing for the first time.
Such things were not talked about in my family, either. I can’t believe the way people act nowadays. They have no discretion at all.
I don't like talking about it either..I swear I know far too many details about my coworkers' periods though
I suppose the young people think we’re too uptight. But I don’t care.
I’m on my period and am watching this . I hate when Aunt Flo comes but know I hate it less since seeing this .
Wow, I sure love the snarky commentary peppered into the retelling of historical information. Really puts a damper on an otherwise interesting topic.