 
                                    
                                 
                            Period: The End of Menstruation (2006)
                                    If you could stop your period, would you?
                                    2006-05-01
                                    United States of America
                                    56 Min.
                                    PG-13
                                
                                Overview
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.
 
                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                    