LET’S TALK, PERIOD.

We’ve all been there – we’re busy at work when nature steps in, and there’s no way to avoid it.

Reaching into our handbag, we discreetly tuck a sanitary pad in our back pocket or a tampon under our sleeve and make our way to the bathroom while hoping no one sees us.

Periods – they arrive every month around the same time, and yet every time, many of us feel the need to hide it, to cover it up, treating it as some kind of taboo subject, as if we’re doing something wrong.

But why is there such a stigma around the natural process of menstruation?

After all, it’s something over half the population goes through roughly every 28 days.

Intimate health specialist Dr Shirin Lakhani suggests that a stigma around menstruation is brought