Is menstruation a conversational taboo in your culture? Studies show you might have fewer ways to say
Is menstruation a conversational taboo in your culture? Studies show you might have fewer ways to say "period".

Shark Week. Usenyangeni. Taking time off. People who menstruate — and those who don’t — have come up with a plethora of ways to, well, say someone’s on their period.

More than 5 000 euphemisms exist for menstruation in 190 different countries, period app  Clue found in a 2015 survey. As part of the study, the period-tracking programme asked app users a series of questions about how open they felt about discussing menstruation. About 90 000 people responded to the survey. 



#PeriodTalk.

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Roxy de Villiers was Bhekisisa's social media content producer and engagement officer from 2018 to 2019.