"La menstruación es uno de los procesos más naturales. Los mitos contra ella han surgido por machismo”
Dra Damaris Rodríguez Irizarry, catedrática auxiliar de la Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad de Puerto Rico.
Malditos sabios antiguos
La menstruación carga con un descrédito universal desde tiempos inmemoriales. Hay tabúes que se pasan oralmente o mediante rituales de generación en generación, y hay otros que quedaron más marcados por la palabra escrita.
Los papiros egipcios de Kahun y Ebers de1900 a.C., considerados los documentos más antiguos medical knowledge, emphasized on the bad position of the parent responsible for multiple diseases as women, and even spoke of migrations from the uterus within the body that produce various ailments, a theory that Plato and Aristotle adopted. In Greece it was believed that girls should be promptly deflowered, not to suffer delusions and anxieties because the blood does not quickly find out.
Pliny the Elder, a few years before Christ, wrote in his "Natural History" an entire chapter to warn against the many evils which causes menstruation. Under the old Pliny, a menstruating woman causes damage crops, dry plants, may run in a blue cloth (the most expensive dye that existed at the time), killing the bees, eats cheese, sick babies, sour wine, cut the milk and cream, oxidized metals , broken glass and mirrors, contaminated water and causes animals to abort.
course his explanation was a wonderful system to find a scapegoat for everything that is wrong. Thus, I make clear that everything is broken, corrupted, stained, discolored, or stop working destiñera was menstruating woman's fault, and transitive, all suspected and menstruating women (because neither the time Pliny the women walked counting whether menstruating or not.) Good old Pliny
caught a glimpse of generosity with the ladies: he made the exception to clarify that a menstruating woman was very helpful in controlling pests of the crops - with the system of walking naked through the camp before dawn, and calm the marine thunderstorms, for which only needed to be thrown into the sea in a storm. Is very clear that what he was getting Plinio menstruating women died of pneumonia walking naked through the fields at dawn, or die drowned in the waves of a stormy sea. If he were alive today Pliny say that menstruating women are good to increase the power by putting fingers in the socket and to improve transit on routes lying in the middle of a highway at midnight. Honestly, I wanted Pliny was drawn to all women over. Perhaps his bitter resentment against fertile women was due to early he was suffering from impotence. If not, why should it be called Pliny the Elder? Surely it was not so old. In ancient Greece without cortisone, sulfonamides or antibiotics, did not write the old misogynist nonsense: just died Why will not have time Pliny died, before leaving their nefarious pages full of rotting misogynist? Ah, true that "bad grass never dies."
Meanwhile, Galen (131 -201 AD) said that women suffered from a cold which resulted in their genitals have been trapped inside the body without power down normally. This pesnador clarified was the epitome of medical wisdom for millennia, until his name became synonymous with médico.Pero if he were alive today, I would reply that the typical male heats are the fault grounds that their genitals were dropped out, and now instead of dangling losllevan be well designed in as the female body.
In the Middle Ages, it was said that women had no souls and were therefore easy prey to the devil .. [1] In those days, with so many men to the contrary, subject seemed to be the only guarantee of survival for women. And since then they themselves continue to own the machismo of the men who parrot today, without even stopping to assess how much of the way there in what they are saying. Today
talk to intelligent and cultured girl of 15 years and says "menstruation is disgusting." You ask why and I said "do not know." Yes, we have brainwashed.
[1] Women, disease and violence in medicine By Eva Giberti. Article published in the book "Women and violence invisible, Eva Giberti and Ana Maria Fernandez (Eds.), Editorial Sudamericana, 1992, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2nd ed. edition, ISBN: 959-07-0569-9, 227 p.
anti Myths - menstruation
The first period is an important ritual in almost all primitive societies. The young Apaches and Amazonian tribes have the face smeared with mud to indicate that they have been possessed by the goddess of earth and fertility. In Cameroon, the red paint on the painted white Borneo and in Islamic countries, such as painting fail to cut their clitoris and vulva were half sewn. In Uganda they burned clothes and break the pots where they are cooked, and Australian tribes can not touch the objects male or walk the paths forged by men.
To ensure cleaning of menstruating women, Jews had to wear the priest two doves on the eighth day of menstruation is finished, one for a burnt offering to the LORD and the other as the atoning sacrifice for the impurity of its flow. Imagine catching a live pigeon to sacrifice and is complicado.Pero to catch two, `you can spend a few months racing pigeons and risking break your neck looking for pigeons in the eaves of the roof. This will complicate life for killing pigeons thing that still remains as a ritual of marriage in much of the Middle East, although truth be told everything ese tema de matar palomas es para que haya alguna sangre cuando la virgen no sangró, o cuando la soltera sangró. Porque sucede que así como es un bochorno menstruar, después de la noche de boidas es un bochorno no sangrar. Matando palomas, todo se disimula y cada familia demuestra que es del mejor nivel, pobre tortolitas….
En la India oriental, los ritos védicos de purificación en la menstruación obligaba a las mujer a cepillarse los dientes, hacerse gárgaras, lavarse manos y pies, zambullirse doce veces al río, frotarse con lodo que llevara estiércol fresco, volver a zambullirse en el agua treinta y cuatro veces y repetir las friegas de lodo, repetir la inmersión veinticuatro veces, friccionarse the body with saffron and, finally, another twenty-four dips more ... so it is easy to understand why women menstruate hated.
Some anthropologists argue that all the sacrifices and rituals of the story where I had to kill something to honor the gods have their origin in the sacrifice of blood shed menstrual women when there is a new life to nurture. But at the same time, many myths anti - menstruation in many different cultures came to discriminate very well and set aside for women in production and away from the handling of the economy. As they turned away from the everyday grind, they dedicated themselves to eat the cheese, take the milk and wine ... before that corropieran and sour because of menstruating women. That was the excuse, the truth was that they did not want to eat cheese. And today, they live hambreadas.La test is that as to whether a dog or cat is male or female genitals have to look at him because of size are identical to the female-female distinguishes the naked eye: it is always small and fragile the male .. But that was explained in antiquity as the fault of the women, did not grow because nutrients are not assimilated evacuated with monthly bleeding.
Males also made women believe that menstruation was a kind of caviar which acted female male semen, and mix born babies. Thus losing the "caviar" was a total lack of responsibility on the part of them. . Also said it was a loss of blood "bad", which balanced the humors to stay healthy. This explains why men lived less than women, because their blood could not expleler toxic. Remember that for centuries the way to lower fevers and bloodletting was to heal ailments and apply leeches to suck the bad blood. That is why it is important not stay done "bad blood": the bad blood ill. In the Middle Ages said that the menstrual flow was a way to regulate the heat female. They said how long men with sweat, while women dampness starts with menstruation, as well as a dog does the language sweating
Another belief said that a drop of menstrual blood contaminated rivers and killed all the fish, which myths became current in the "Do not wash your head because you are short." In many religions
menstruating woman is considered impure and the Bible itself condemns both the man and the woman who had sex during menstruation.
Simone de Beauvoir recounts in "The Second Sex" that one of the most evocative effects attributed to the period was that "weakens the man and he produces impotence if sex is performed in full period. " Perhaps that which pollutes water and kills fish is nothing more than an allegory of a man who sees a woman bleeding from the vagina is "killed" the "little fish." And we know that impotence is perhaps the greatest tragedy male. If a modern man unfamiliar with the female physiological processes can lose an erection to see blood ... imagine how catastrophic must have been for early man!
With such an outlook that menstruation is the celebrated painting the menstruating from head to toe, he fears, it is expected, envy, take precautions, you start away ... to understand why we prefer that no one knows we're menstruating!
Malditos sabios antiguos
La menstruación carga con un descrédito universal desde tiempos inmemoriales. Hay tabúes que se pasan oralmente o mediante rituales de generación en generación, y hay otros que quedaron más marcados por la palabra escrita.
Los papiros egipcios de Kahun y Ebers de1900 a.C., considerados los documentos más antiguos medical knowledge, emphasized on the bad position of the parent responsible for multiple diseases as women, and even spoke of migrations from the uterus within the body that produce various ailments, a theory that Plato and Aristotle adopted. In Greece it was believed that girls should be promptly deflowered, not to suffer delusions and anxieties because the blood does not quickly find out.
Pliny the Elder, a few years before Christ, wrote in his "Natural History" an entire chapter to warn against the many evils which causes menstruation. Under the old Pliny, a menstruating woman causes damage crops, dry plants, may run in a blue cloth (the most expensive dye that existed at the time), killing the bees, eats cheese, sick babies, sour wine, cut the milk and cream, oxidized metals , broken glass and mirrors, contaminated water and causes animals to abort.
course his explanation was a wonderful system to find a scapegoat for everything that is wrong. Thus, I make clear that everything is broken, corrupted, stained, discolored, or stop working destiñera was menstruating woman's fault, and transitive, all suspected and menstruating women (because neither the time Pliny the women walked counting whether menstruating or not.) Good old Pliny
caught a glimpse of generosity with the ladies: he made the exception to clarify that a menstruating woman was very helpful in controlling pests of the crops - with the system of walking naked through the camp before dawn, and calm the marine thunderstorms, for which only needed to be thrown into the sea in a storm. Is very clear that what he was getting Plinio menstruating women died of pneumonia walking naked through the fields at dawn, or die drowned in the waves of a stormy sea. If he were alive today Pliny say that menstruating women are good to increase the power by putting fingers in the socket and to improve transit on routes lying in the middle of a highway at midnight. Honestly, I wanted Pliny was drawn to all women over. Perhaps his bitter resentment against fertile women was due to early he was suffering from impotence. If not, why should it be called Pliny the Elder? Surely it was not so old. In ancient Greece without cortisone, sulfonamides or antibiotics, did not write the old misogynist nonsense: just died Why will not have time Pliny died, before leaving their nefarious pages full of rotting misogynist? Ah, true that "bad grass never dies."
Meanwhile, Galen (131 -201 AD) said that women suffered from a cold which resulted in their genitals have been trapped inside the body without power down normally. This pesnador clarified was the epitome of medical wisdom for millennia, until his name became synonymous with médico.Pero if he were alive today, I would reply that the typical male heats are the fault grounds that their genitals were dropped out, and now instead of dangling losllevan be well designed in as the female body.
In the Middle Ages, it was said that women had no souls and were therefore easy prey to the devil .. [1] In those days, with so many men to the contrary, subject seemed to be the only guarantee of survival for women. And since then they themselves continue to own the machismo of the men who parrot today, without even stopping to assess how much of the way there in what they are saying. Today
talk to intelligent and cultured girl of 15 years and says "menstruation is disgusting." You ask why and I said "do not know." Yes, we have brainwashed.
[1] Women, disease and violence in medicine By Eva Giberti. Article published in the book "Women and violence invisible, Eva Giberti and Ana Maria Fernandez (Eds.), Editorial Sudamericana, 1992, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2nd ed. edition, ISBN: 959-07-0569-9, 227 p.
anti Myths - menstruation
The first period is an important ritual in almost all primitive societies. The young Apaches and Amazonian tribes have the face smeared with mud to indicate that they have been possessed by the goddess of earth and fertility. In Cameroon, the red paint on the painted white Borneo and in Islamic countries, such as painting fail to cut their clitoris and vulva were half sewn. In Uganda they burned clothes and break the pots where they are cooked, and Australian tribes can not touch the objects male or walk the paths forged by men.
To ensure cleaning of menstruating women, Jews had to wear the priest two doves on the eighth day of menstruation is finished, one for a burnt offering to the LORD and the other as the atoning sacrifice for the impurity of its flow. Imagine catching a live pigeon to sacrifice and is complicado.Pero to catch two, `you can spend a few months racing pigeons and risking break your neck looking for pigeons in the eaves of the roof. This will complicate life for killing pigeons thing that still remains as a ritual of marriage in much of the Middle East, although truth be told everything ese tema de matar palomas es para que haya alguna sangre cuando la virgen no sangró, o cuando la soltera sangró. Porque sucede que así como es un bochorno menstruar, después de la noche de boidas es un bochorno no sangrar. Matando palomas, todo se disimula y cada familia demuestra que es del mejor nivel, pobre tortolitas….
En la India oriental, los ritos védicos de purificación en la menstruación obligaba a las mujer a cepillarse los dientes, hacerse gárgaras, lavarse manos y pies, zambullirse doce veces al río, frotarse con lodo que llevara estiércol fresco, volver a zambullirse en el agua treinta y cuatro veces y repetir las friegas de lodo, repetir la inmersión veinticuatro veces, friccionarse the body with saffron and, finally, another twenty-four dips more ... so it is easy to understand why women menstruate hated.
Some anthropologists argue that all the sacrifices and rituals of the story where I had to kill something to honor the gods have their origin in the sacrifice of blood shed menstrual women when there is a new life to nurture. But at the same time, many myths anti - menstruation in many different cultures came to discriminate very well and set aside for women in production and away from the handling of the economy. As they turned away from the everyday grind, they dedicated themselves to eat the cheese, take the milk and wine ... before that corropieran and sour because of menstruating women. That was the excuse, the truth was that they did not want to eat cheese. And today, they live hambreadas.La test is that as to whether a dog or cat is male or female genitals have to look at him because of size are identical to the female-female distinguishes the naked eye: it is always small and fragile the male .. But that was explained in antiquity as the fault of the women, did not grow because nutrients are not assimilated evacuated with monthly bleeding.
Males also made women believe that menstruation was a kind of caviar which acted female male semen, and mix born babies. Thus losing the "caviar" was a total lack of responsibility on the part of them. . Also said it was a loss of blood "bad", which balanced the humors to stay healthy. This explains why men lived less than women, because their blood could not expleler toxic. Remember that for centuries the way to lower fevers and bloodletting was to heal ailments and apply leeches to suck the bad blood. That is why it is important not stay done "bad blood": the bad blood ill. In the Middle Ages said that the menstrual flow was a way to regulate the heat female. They said how long men with sweat, while women dampness starts with menstruation, as well as a dog does the language sweating
Another belief said that a drop of menstrual blood contaminated rivers and killed all the fish, which myths became current in the "Do not wash your head because you are short." In many religions
menstruating woman is considered impure and the Bible itself condemns both the man and the woman who had sex during menstruation.
Simone de Beauvoir recounts in "The Second Sex" that one of the most evocative effects attributed to the period was that "weakens the man and he produces impotence if sex is performed in full period. " Perhaps that which pollutes water and kills fish is nothing more than an allegory of a man who sees a woman bleeding from the vagina is "killed" the "little fish." And we know that impotence is perhaps the greatest tragedy male. If a modern man unfamiliar with the female physiological processes can lose an erection to see blood ... imagine how catastrophic must have been for early man!
With such an outlook that menstruation is the celebrated painting the menstruating from head to toe, he fears, it is expected, envy, take precautions, you start away ... to understand why we prefer that no one knows we're menstruating!
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