Re: strange monthy customs was website items

>> Here is a link, tell me what you think.  See the safety pins?
>> Sanitary Napkin Belts
>> http://www.mum.org/belthick.htm
>
>Well, ain't that site a mine of information!?
>
>Strange that it seems to be collated by a bloke, but nice to know someone
>is archiving this 'secret' history, given the amount of ignorance and fear
>girls stiff suffered from while I was growing up. I am only 40, but I had
>school friends who weren't allowed to water plants while they were
>menstruating, because the plants would die, or cook food, because it would
>be tainted and all the rest of that superstitious nonsense.
>
>:) Trish 

Well, with great respect to Muslims,  Yet it has come to my attention
and knowledge that they are not allowed to wear nail polish because it
can disguise a lack of cleanliness (probably true - if you have ever
seen under some  long unkept painted nails).  BUT, the exception is,
when they are menstruating, they can wear nailpolish because they are
deemed "unclean" anyway and can't do the regular prayers.
I can respect that.
But, oh how horrible to "advertise" when your time of the month is
when you do wear nailpolish.
I guess it is better than getting sent to the "unclean tent"
Joy