More Things Men Should Know About Periods

About Periods', or something like that. I'll leave a link to it just up there.

And it was a kind of an entry-level video to how men don't know anything

about periods and menstruation and it's the things that they really do need to

know especially if they're in a straight relationship or if they just know people

really, if they know anybody who has a period they really kind of do need to

know about this kind of thing, so they can be understanding and actually

understand what's going on. A few months ago I went to a Pride and Prejudice

marathon in in Shoreditch in aid of the Red Box Project. It was run by Leena Norms

who you might know from YouTube; and the Red Box Project are a organization that

get free sanitary products into schools. 'Why do they do that?' you might ask, well

thousands of girls every single year miss school because of what we call

period poverty, where they can't afford to have sanitary products. So when their

on the period they feel like they can't go into school, which you know it's not

good and should never happen. It's just something that your body does naturally.

This shouldn't make you miss school, when it really doesn't have to. So the event

was raising money for the Red Box Project but also had donations of

sanitary products and I took something along. First time I've bought sanitary

products in my entire life, but first time for everything.

It was an experience, and I got an odd look from somebody in the aisle in the

supermarket but ... a really good event and if they do any more I'll put them on my

Twitter. It was on my Twitter and my Instagram by the way so you want to follow me on

those, I shall put them on there and I suggest if you're free and you want to

turn up bring some sanitary products; but on to the main bit of the video. Following

on from my video last year I wanted to give you some more advanced things.

Advanced level knowledge. More things that men should know about periods ...

Advanced level. So I've got my list here. So talking about

sanitary products there are lots of them. So you can have pads and tampons I think

we probably all know about those but there are other things. You can have

menstrual cups such as moon cups or diva cups. Some brand names there;

other ones are available. What happens is the person that has the period

puts it up their vagina for the time that they are on the period and it fills

up and they empty it at the end of the day, or whenever it needs emptying; or for

people who have light periods you can get period underwear and that basically is

some underwear which will soak up the blood and of course you can wash it

afterwards. So it's like having a pantyliner which you can wear again and again.

And of course there are other products available for women but none of them are

very cheap, and some of them are subject to VAT at 5% or 20%. But talking about the

government - the government have just announced a couple of weeks ago that

they intend to have free sanitary products in all secondary schools. Don't know