Word: menstrual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Giant Yams. A woman of childbearing age has a menstrual cycle of 23 to 39 days, but the average is close to 28 days, and this figure is always used by doctors prescribing the pills. It is a safe choice because even women who have had different cycles usually convert to a 28-day cycle while on the pills...
Pincus to overcome infertility caused by disturbed menstrual cycles. It was only after they found that the pills, taken on a regular schedule for three months and then stopped, seemed to stimulate fertility, that the medical researchers began to try them solely for contraception...
...oral contraceptives so far approved by FDA contain, in addition to their principal ingredient of the synthetic, progestin, a minute amount of another synthetic hormone, estrogen. This fulfills some of the roles of the estrogen that a woman normally secretes generously during the first part of her menstrual cycle, and it serves to prevent spotting or break-through bleeding in the middle part of the cycle...
...natives to violate tribal taboos, and so bound them to the movement by cutting them off from all else. Some of the grisly Mau Mau oath-taking rites called for copulation with sheep, eating the flesh of exhumed corpses or drinking the "Kaberi-chia cocktail," a blend of semen, menstrual blood and sheep's blood...
...cheap magazines, tend to develop a distorted picture of reality. For another thing, there has been a continuous movement toward an earlier beginning of puberty in the last 100 years. In the U.S., for example, the average age of menarche (the time of a girl's first menstrual period) has come down from 14-plus in 1900 to 12-plus today. Thus the earlier physical maturity in girls, combined with early dating and going steady (which many of them equate with being in love), often thrusts youngsters into sexual and emotional situations far beyond their capaci ty. Writes Child...