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I find almost everything about menstrual cycle really fascinating. I wouldn't necessarily want to have periods, but I do wish I were more overtly forced to recognize the physiological cycles my body undergoes (and how they affect my behavior, my appearance, etc.) -- they're so obscure that I can't recognize them.
I don't remember learning anything at all in sex-ed about the fertility cycle, just that girls get periods and wear sanitary napkins during them so as not to make a mess. What a joke!
I also think the idea of menstrual cycles synching-up is fascinating (though there has been some scientific suggestion that this can be explained by mere random coincidence). I hopefully imagine that there is a good deal of behavior-mediating chemical communication going on between individuals that we haven't yet learned to recognize. And of course, the less physically shielded we are from each other, the more influence these things have.
If "radical menstruation" (a perverse name, obviously) is the response to our mindlessly commercial, interventionist health care system and paranoia-inducing health education strategies, then bully for it.
― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 7 November 2003 21:22 (twenty years ago) link
five years pass...
nine years pass...