Pain Into Pleasure

Pain Into Pleasure

The wisdom and magic of menstruation is not taught. Unless you have women that raised you with this ancient knowledge or have good resources around you. Or you just have to find everything on your own. Then you were like me, walking through the creaky old abandoned...
Shedding Menstrual Shame in the Sacred Space of Bodysex

Shedding Menstrual Shame in the Sacred Space of Bodysex

I stared at my period app calendar, frustrated that either it wasn’t right or my body wasn’t. I was supposed to have my period by now, in fact I’d intentionally planned this Bodysex circle so that it would be just past the heavy days. Every time I went to the bathroom...
Who is Afraid of Blood?

Who is Afraid of Blood?

Read Monica’s post in French “Monica? Are you listening to me? Could you please repeat what I just said?” – Yes, I do listen. You explained that the verb ‘to be’ and ‘to have’ are auxiliaries in French and… “Ok, Monica, that will be all, thank...
Blood Everywhere

Blood Everywhere

With my pants around my ankles, I squatted low in the 3-stalled corporate office restroom. My butt cheeks just a few inches from the floor, I pressed my PC muscles down and pulled the tip of my menstrual cup. Because squatting shortens the vaginal canal, it was then...
Blood Medicine

Blood Medicine

My understanding of the ways to connect myself with the Earth through my moon blood has been cobbled together from my own experimenting, errors, and random bits of information collected throughout my life. And I wonder how many fragments will equal a whole. How many...
My Menstruation Story

My Menstruation Story

Art by Betty Dodson My mother told me about menstruation at an early age so I had been expecting it to come anytime.  In fact, I was eager to get it and looked at it as a right of passage. I was 12.5 years old, sitting in my sixth grade classroom, when I was plagued...