"Unfortunately, more than 3500 years of patriarchal society have changed female minds about it, inspiring them the wrong idea that their monthly cycle is a dirty and impure thing which needs to be hidden as more as possible, with the final result of losing their consciousness of the Divine Female Power. It is also important to keep in mind that this Power is not a weapon against the male gender, as patriarchal society believes, but an important resource for the whole mankind:" http://waxinggoddess.blogspot.no/2008/09/divine-female-power.html