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Menstrual cup (BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Can menstrual cups cause prolapse?

Elizabeth Hlavinka

Woman handing sanitary pad to other woman in a restroom (Getty Images/Lucy Lambriex)

Period taboos have serious consequences

Elizabeth Hlavinka

Women's tampon with blue on the end (Getty Images/Петр Ткаченко)

Women don't bleed — or squirt — blue

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Sissy Spacek on the set of "Carrie" (Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

Best and worst first periods on screen

Jessie Glaser gets her period at camp on "Big Mouth" (Netflix)

How period humor is changing the world

Woman with face mask getting vaccinated (Getty Images)

Odd periods: A new vaccine side effect

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1703182p1.html'>Daniela Staerk</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Time off work for cramps

Rachel Kramer Bussel

Katie Levingston

The poster girl for period sex

Rachel Kramer Bussel

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-140512p1.html'>Jiri Hera</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-140512p1.html'>Jiri Hera</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

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Boxing officials fear periods

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-140512p1.html'>Jiri Hera</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

(Kickstarter)

Katie McDonough

Hand Job Academy (<a href='http://www.laurajunekirsch.com/'>Laura June Kirsch</a>)

The rise of period pride

A still from HelloFlo's new ad. (YouTube)

Afraid of women's bodies?

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