Menstrual complexities

Summarizes the inadequate way in which young people are taught about menstruation in school. Describes how the author′s local education authority decided to call a halt to lectures on menstruation offered by manufacturers of tampons after concluding that such lectures were designed to promote sales of tampons. Provides a classroom exercise to raise pupils′ awareness of how modern packaging of sanitary wear perpetuates society′s taboos about menstruation. Concludes that although sanitary protection is now more openly displayed in shops than in the past, it is now disguised in other ways.