The scientific community needs to study menstruation as this body function impacts half of society. Not so long ago, it was conventional wisdom that menstruation made women weaker, mentally inferior, unstable, and unclean once a month. For the most part, we know better, but periods are still a taboo topic. So taboo, in fact, that it’s still relatively uncharted territory in terms of medical research. There isn’t even a complete consensus as to why human women menstruate, let alone ...