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The stigma over periods won’t end until boys learn about them too | Amika George

One in five young women in the UK has experienced bullying about periods. Boys must be taught menstruation is not taboo
‘We have been socialised into thinking that periods are a female issue.’ Protesters against period poverty at the London Women’s march, January 2019. Photograph: Jenny Matthews/Alamy Stock Photo

My friend Ben told me how, in a house of three boys, his mum would stealthily hide her box of tampons to avoid questioning from her sons. Other male friends remember being separated from the girls in their class to be taught sex education, or being left in complete bewilderment when the “time of the month”

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