[varyouga]

Women of child-bearing age were starving and/or pregnant their entire lives up until very recently in human history. They usually died well before the age of 40 and often during one of their many pregnancies. Periods were the exception in a female’s life rather than the norm.

Barren women may have had periods but they were usually killed or abandoned. Especially less attractive ones that wouldn't be taken care of by a powerful man with multiple fertile women to make up for it. No babies or eye candy meant the woman was a drain on resources.

Also, people were far less clean so some blood on the legs would have been barely noticed. No running water, no toilet paper, lots of flies, fleas, etc. In some societies people never bathed at all. Even in the Europe of a couple hundred years ago, people took a bath once a year and it was a huge occasion.

We truly have come a long way, baby...

[Taffini]

since fabric was hard to come by your clothes usually rotted off you. they used wool and linen a lot which, at least, are good fabrics. when the industrial revolution started and fabric was produced on the big looms and not by hand on the small looms, fabric was a lot cheaper. people started to be cleaner because they had a change of clothes, but nothing like today. We have so many advantages over our ancestors—they must have been a hardy lot, the ones that survived. Many people are alive today who would have easily died 200 plus years ago.

[Dr. Sivana]

Women of child-bearing age were starving and/or pregnant their entire lives up until very recently in human history. They usually died well before the age of 40 and often during one of their many pregnancies. Periods were the exception in a female’s life rather than the norm.

That is a gross generalization that does not apply to much of Europe. At very least you recognize that there were convents filled with non-pregnant, fertile women. I know of no Christian society that tolerated the killing of women for being barren or living past child-bearing years. The Christian rules regarding fasting would make no sense in a starving society. You should read more about medieval Europe.