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<div>Not surprisingly, since most of the writers of the [[12th Century]] were male, we hear little about what females of any class did while menstruating. The almost total lack of mention of this tells us that this was not simly a topic that men didn't know a lot about, but goes beyond that to a topic that was taboo, or at least very impolite.<br />
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The most likely solution for women was to wear a pad of rags which was tied to a kind of belt arrangement. Modern pad-stuck-to-your-underwear type arrangements wouldn't work because [[12_Century_underwear|12th Century underwear]] was quite different to modern underwear, and it is likely that many women wore no underwear most of the time.<br />
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''see also:''<br />
*[[12th_Century_life|12th Century life]]<br />
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