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Period: The End of Menstruation
May 1 2006 (over 18 years ago)Rating
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If you could stop your period, would you?
- Director: Giovanna Chesler
- Genre: Documentary
- Runtime: 56 m
- Country: United States of America
- Company: G6 Pictures
As millions of women and girls take shots and pills to stop their periods, the meaning of menstruation changes. Current marketing of hormonal birth control (Depo-Provera, Seasonale, Seasonique, Lybrel, Anya) attracts customers by promising freedom from monthly periods. For many consumers, menstrual suppression eliminates painful monthly flow, giving them more control in their lives. For others, menstrual suppression represents a frightening shift in thinking about the human body and another dangerous experiment on woman’s health. Period: The End of Menstruation? interrogates the cultural and medical side effects of suppression before 'the curse' disappears.