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Doctors are finally treating menstrual miseries...
...many names: period, monthly, that time, my friend. But for many women the most apt description is the curse. For about half of all women of child-bearing age, menstruation is a monthly misery that causes intense physical and mental discomfort. In the U.S. alone, menstrual problems result in the loss of 140 million hours of work a year. Menstrual pain, says Pathologist Laurence Demers of the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pa., "probably is the most common cause for absence of women from the work force...
...most people, Jovan officials insist that alpha androstenol actually is a pheromone, which is a biochemical that has the power of sexual excitement. At best, the evidence is skimpy. A study conducted at San Francisco State University and published last year showed that sweaty odors can change the menstrual cycles of women. But any closer link between such substances and human sexuality is still uncertain...
...tell them about premenstrual cramps. Most of the men know more about the inner workings of the space shuttle than about the women who used to share their bed and board. Someone suggested, seriously, that since there were training bras, perhaps the drugstore carried a "starter kit" for the menstrual cycle. (Single dads tend to have unusually intimate conversations with their women friends.) The group finally threw itself on the mercy of a college girl volunteer in the "big sister" program...
...several days (against hours for the diaphragm) and thus affords greater sexual spontaneity. There is even promise of a cap that could be worn for years. In Chicago Gynecologist Uwe Freese and Dentist Robert Goepp are experimenting with custom-fit devices that have a one-way valve to allow menstrual blood to escape automatically...