There are over 640,000 movies on IMDB (September 2023), but as few as 300 of them contain dialogue about periods.
People who menstruate make up around 26% of the global population; we bleed monthly for around 40 years of our lives. But menstruation's representation in cinema sits at less than 0.05%.
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