In historian times if a girl was on her period what would they do?!
Question: They would take a large rag and wrap it around their waist and legs like a diaper. Quite often the women wouldn't leave the house as in most places they were considered unclean during this time.
Answers: They would take a large rag and wrap it around their waist and legs like a diaper. Quite often the women wouldn't leave the house as in most places they were considered unclean during this time.
thats a good question too bad i dont have the anwser:(
Girls and women either wore rags secured somehow between their legs, or they'd just let it go.
EDIT - okay, what's with all these thumbs-down? all of these responses (except for the first and the one by yourpastlifelover - which is total crap) are true!
EDIT - womenagainststirrups : i never said it wasn't true, i know of that for a fact. i just think it's ridiculous.
maybe made cloths to help, or maybe some type of clothing, but I'm not quite sure, why do you want to know anyways?
That does vary. Often, she would be isolated or sequesterd in some way....
In my great-grandmother's tribe, Lakota-Sioux, women weren't generally allowed to attend religious ceremonies while they were menstruating. The reason the shamans gave was that the females had mystical powers while on their periods and could upset the spirit world's energy's or something about the ritual....but personally, I think it was mainly just a stupid excuse for men in the tribe get get away from the crankiness for awhile. :P
Women have been particularly creative in the materials they have used to collect menstrual fluids. The list of absorbent materials is really quite endless and includes, animal pelts, mosses, sea sponges and seaweed, along with the usual cotton, wool, rags and vegetable fibres.
In ancient Egypt, women used papyrus as tampons. In Greece, they used lint. In Rome, it was wool. The Japanese used paper, and Africans used rolls of grass.
Sponges and cotton wadding were used as tampons in Europe in the 17th century. At this time pads were held in place with a belt with tape or string to secure them in place. Pads were made from oil silk (because it could be easily washed), cotton fibres, cotton waste, wood wool, wadding, paper, wood fibres, linen.
Tampons have been used by women for thousands of years. The ancient Egyptian women made tampons from softened papyrus. In other countries early tampons were made of lint wrapped around lightweight wood, wool, vegetable plant fibres and in Equatorial Africa women used rolls of grass.
The earliest commercial tampons were available in the early 1900s. Whereas pads have undergone quite a lot of transformation over time from bulky reusable rags to disposable cotton worn attached to a belt, from bulky rectangular sponge-like things to ultra-thins with wings and adhesive backing, tampons have always been either sponges or wads of cotton or rayon fibres, usually attached to a cord.
Disposable products started to be made in the 1940s, firstly with belted pads and then in the 1960s with adhesive-backed pads. The 1990s saw the use of absorbent gels built into pads.
The menstrual cup has been in use for at least 150 years, being first used from rubber collected in India.
And no le VicSter, what yourpastlifelover said is not total crap. Menstrual huts (a hut for women to gather during their menstruation, letting the blood naturally flow without catching it with some product) were already since long time besides the Natives also used by other cultures.
In many cultures there were special temples or lodges dedicated to menstruating women to find retreat and relaxation during their moontime. Some believed that menstruating women had special powers during this mysterious bleeding phenom-enon
In ancient Japan, menstrual huts for women were situated in the most beautiful places: along the seashore, often on top of a hill. There the women could withdraw to spend time in solitude, or retreat with others.
In Southeastern India, among still-existent matriarchal tribes, women move to the ocean to meditate during their menses. Their retreat, their time of self communion, is honored as a service to the community. Their clothes are washed and all their chores are done by the male members of the tribe while they menstruate. When, after a few days, the women return to the village, they are full of inner strength. They are welcomed back by their men and pampered with their favorite foods.