Jessica Wynn

And gosh, I haven't thought about her in so long.

But Taylor, wherever you are now, I hope your vagina is happy.

This is...

Why, anything you put inside your vagina should have a string on it.

Yeah, it was quite the talk of ninth grade.

What about them?

Do you think they're a good idea?

Women being sent away during their periods to face exposure, sometimes violence.

Women have died in menstrual huts.

In places like Nepal today, girls are still sent to isolated huts during their periods because they're considered impure.

And these huts often have poor sanitation, little food, no protection from cold or animals.

And people have gotten seriously hurt or died from exposure.

I read about a lot of snake bites happened to girls in these huts.

So it's illegal in some countries now, but it still happens.

Not even close.

It's period shaming to its most extreme form.

And that same idea that menstruation is contamination, it shows up in subtler ways, too, like tampon taxes.

People are embarrassed to buy products.

We just treat periods like something to hide.

Yeah, again, women have not historically had a seat at these research tables.