Period: The End of Menstruation (movie)
- User score: 5.5
- Production country: United States of America
- Producer: Giovanna Chesler
- Production companies: G6 Pictures
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 5/1/2006
- Run time: 56 min.
Movie description
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.
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