Skywalker
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Gee, I don't really know but they survived otherwise we wouldn't be here would we ?
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malty21
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Threw it at thier spouse... Typically.
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cbella76
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i read that they used a combination of crocodile dung and honey to plug it up.
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Amber
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they put cups inside to catch the blood, gross I know. They were called menstrual cups.
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Wat u lookin @
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they put a cloth under it or something idk
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ɷ ɹəɥʇɐəɥ ɷ
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they stabbed everyone.....=)
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*lilly* PRO-JONAS
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i dont know leaves?
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lucylucy52
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they lay in a dark room..... i think. bad times, lol
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999pheebs
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they used a rag and washed it to use again, also just so you know apparently the Egyptians had kinda like tampon things but not actual one made of papyrus lol but that might be a rumour.
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david464014
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They got into a bad temper. They lost all reason. They became moody.
No different to today.
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a rag on the rag, gez people just don't know how literal we used to be.
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cess
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Ask the people in the "underdeveloped" countries... It's still a problem for women in 2008. Shame on us!
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lexi
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i dont think they did anything!
i was thinking about that the other day, only i was thinking of 'cavewomen'.... yeah
i think they just stayed inside
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heathsgirl
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They were a lot tougher than us women nowadays. THEY HAD TO BE. Menstruation? Imagine child birth back then!
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Veternarian♥
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ive always wondered that too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Starving Student
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In medieval times, the menstrual period was seen as a cursed time so the woman was actually locked in her room and not allowed to see anyone (except other women, maybe her lady-in-waiting or chambermaid) until the cycle was over.
More recently, my great-grandmother used to tell me stories about certain leaves that they would beat to extract the fiber and tie it to the area... she later on moved to multiple folded layers of cloth that they would wash and dry and reuse every month.
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♥~ KoKo Farina ~♥
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http://www.mum.org/
Go there, it's the site for the Museum of Menstruation. They will have much information for you.
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Kris L
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Until the invention of 'menstrual pads' that could be purchased in stores, women had to use 'rags' or towels between their legs ... and since there were times when it was considered 'wrong' for women to wear ANY type of 'pants' many women went into 'hiding' during their periods ... and menstrual pads didn't actually become 'popular' until WWII ... which is why women's 'liberation' didn't happen until much later, although many women wanted it much earlier, and women gained the right to 'vote' in 1926 in the U.S.
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Em
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rags, cloths
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cluelesssgoddess
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Like someone else said a rag on the rag but to add to that we stay active nowadays before they will stay in their home or room during the duration of it.
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cristinasuitor
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I do not know i guess they just delt with it like we have to and well they used rags by what my *mema* gram mom tells me. so i am really happy i live these days and well have people to tell me aobut it and y and we have things to stop it an all... But at least we live today not then.
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blastedtower13
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They were "on the rag" Literally.
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heena.rocks.ur.socks.
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they used clothing like pieces of a blouse, scarf, etc
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Brianna
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Hey well typicly back then people would use a cloth or rag then wash it out and reuse it, back then when a woman had her period she would be forced to stay in bed upto a week untill it ended because it was belived when they began menstruating they were ill. Glad I wasn't alive then haha...xxx
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Lulu-lucky
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Women felt it was their duty to silently deal with the pain, because they had to bear children. Plus they couldn't do anything else about it, so there wasn't anything else they could do.
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Marlena
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I wonder the same thing! I imagine they used some cloth and probably didn't go out of the house for a week.
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KC
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put a cloth there whenit started
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Coop <3
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What do you mean "coped"? As in what hygiene products did they use, or just emotionally coped...
Because if it is the first, they used rags or linens to catch the menstrual flow, but if you mean emotionally, just like we do?
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Hokie_Pokey
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They used 'rags' and washed them out every time - no diposables back then! Hence the saying "on the rag".
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adrianne
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I saw on PBS these people who were simulating living during the 1700s. They basically had the women tie rags between their thighs. Perhaps this is the origin of the expression "on the rag".
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Understood emo kid
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They dealt with it
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