Women live their menstruations in a different way depending on the regions of the world where they live.
An overview of the taboo of rules in the world, their cause and their consequences!

The rules have always been a taboo subject throughout France. People don’t like to talk about it, are disgusted by the subject or find it too indiscrete. We need to know that every me almost 2 billion women have their rules. A stage of ordinary life, menstruations raise questions or reflection in France as in the world.

Throughout the world, there are different beliefs that advocate that a woman is unclean when she has her rules. For example, in India, the “chaupaudi” is a ritual that requires women to isolate themselves while in their menstrual cycle. They are forced to leave their homes and live in small huts or comfort is not at the rendezvous.

In Afghanistan, showering in periods of rules makes sterile women and it is forbidden for them to sit on wet soil.

In Israel, washing hot water would make the rules abundant. In Afghanistan, they do not have the right to cook or eat meat, rice, vegetables, acid food, or drink cold water.

In Iran, the rules go for a disease for 48% of women and rags act as hygienic protection.

In Japan, women can't become sushi cheffes, the rule period derails the taste buds.
In Malaysia, women need to clean their water user buffers before they can be dumped.
In Bolivia, women have banned throwing their hygienic protections into public trash, because they can spread cancer!

It is a rite that deprives these women of extremely important hygiene conditions especially during the rules.

Is it absurd that patriarchal society can impose itself profoundly ill-being about a magical, natural and cyclical event that the woman cannot control?

The African continent is trying to make women in periods of rule a deep feeling of shame and guilt. In Benin, women are considered unclean during the period of the rules. They must stand away from the sacred places and have no right to touch food, clothing or people because they are so-called unclean.
This is the same pattern in South America, women are found to be ill during their menstrual cycle and therefore must be dismissed from all to avoid contaminate others. If we take the example of Malawi, no one warns or informs young girls of what the rules are: neither parents nor teachers. Indeed, only aunts (once the first rules arrived) are allowed to talk about it to show them how to make a hygienic towel with old clothes.

In countries such as Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Benin, South Africa and Ethiopia, at least 10% of girls do not go to school during their rules due to the lack of water, mixed and/or dirty school sanitary facilities and lack of access to hygienic protections. In Ethiopia, many believe that menstruations are synonymous with sexual intercourse; that’s why boys usually make fun of girls who have their rules.

Mexicans limit the use of buffers for fear that the hymen breaks during its insertion.

Women are also seen as "clean.". In Islam, and according to certain interpretations, women cannot even make certain prayers. It is thus for Judaism, women must be separated from men as practicing purification baths. Muslims forbid a woman, during her rule period, to read or simply touch the Qur'an for fear of welding the sacred text.
As you may have read, rules in some countries are a subject with huge taboos that have been anchored in morals since are not supposed to endure.

I AM A WORLD WOMEN: that i am ethiopian, egyptian, japanese, brazilian or american, my rules will always be a problem in society, whether material or moral. For some, they will be the opportunity to humiliate me, to rebate me when I complain about the pain, for others to make jokes about my mood. Finally, wherever I am in the world (if I am lucky not to suffer from menstrual precariousness), the exact composition of hygienic pads and towels will be unknown to me, despite the risks of endometriosis or infertility.

• Article: “ Blood and women. Medical History of Menstruation at the Belle Époque » – Open Edition, February 1, 2009
• Article: "What women suffer, around the world, when they have their rules" – RTL, September 21, 2015
• Article: "Having its rules in a Syria at war, the limestone of women" – TV5MONDE, October 31, 2016
• Testimonies: "Women tell us how society made the rules shameful" – BuzzFeed, July 16, 2017
• Video: “If I had my rules in the world” – Brut, August 30, 2017
• Article: « Nearly half of American women have been « period shamed » – Daily Mail, January 4, 2018
• Article: “Croyances and stigmatization around the menstruals of African women” – Africa Post News, 20 February 2018
• Article: "When rules inspire the myths of the world" – In My Culotte, May 4, 2018
• Article : « Girls – and boys! – demystifies the rules in five countries around the world » – Unicef, May 25, 2018
• Article: "The rules around the world" – Women Plurielles, November 29, 2018
• Article: "This Egyptian company creates a menstrual leave: a first in the Middle East" – Terra Femina, April 15, 2019