Not many women like to bleed once a month. It's messy, it's crampy, occasionally there are embarrassingly stained clothes and sheets for those with an excessively heavy flow. Only men would deem it "better" for us to keep on putting up with this biological annoyance even after finding a cure for it? Hmmm the fradgile male mind! Now due to medical science, there are now a handful of birth control products on the market, such as Seasonale and Lybrel, that do eliminate periods as well as prevent pregnancy and the way its promoted on commercials and adds in women's magazines it literally treats menstruation as a disease, I am totally against this for several reasons

Since when is menstruation a disease? Only a man can consider menstruation a disease for a wide variety of reasons I will not go into on this post.
If there are women who want to eliminate their periods altogether, that's up to them, but there are plenty of us who don't mind the so-called "mess". I, for one, would much prefer to bleed once a month rather than take a pill every day that can cause blood clots and heart attacks down the line, especially since birth control is unnecessary for those of us that are not sexually active or those not sleeping with men.

Besides, menstruation is part of our womanhood it defines us from men, to eliminate our cycles one may argue turns us into some mutant form of "she men"?

I'm often wary of our attempts to control or redesign complex natural mechanisms that we often don't fully comprehend or appreciate, with our often biased and unwise views of what is better-and that goes for all of us. Look at how we've tried to control what we percieve as behavioral problems in children and force them into behavior we've deemed as normal by pumping them with drugs like Rittalin and Prozac.

From what I've read it seems like everyone treats it as a process confined to the reproductive organs when it effects the entire body in ways from the obvious to the very subtle. And, in our fast-paced, materialistic culture, we often only see things through the lens of how convenient they would be, or how much they'd add to our success, not all the ways-tangible and intangible-they'd add to the human experience.

I, for one, would have not wanted and do not want a pill which will eliminate menstrual periods, because the processes involved are not limited to the reproductive organs but involve and effect the entire body. For instance, the surges of estrogen that occur just before a period are crucial in building bone density for women in their teens and twenties, who probably aren't getting enough calcium as it is. Estrogen can strongly effect mood, secondary sex characteristics and sexual drive, even kidney function (like the water retention that occurs during periods). Because it is so systemic and complex, controlling and redisigning the menstrual cycle has the potential to go dangerously awry and hurt more people than it helps. If it's the choice between osteoporosis than can lead to a fracture at the age of 60 that could cause my health to subsequently deteriorate, or breast cancer, or depression, and the once a month inconvenience of my period.

Sorry if all this sounds pessimistic and/or too traditional, and I humbly apologize if I got any info wrong, but it's just that I've read about and seen what happens when we attempt to control nature too much without either fully understanding or fully appreciate it, and it's not pretty. I'm pretty wary about our attempts to redesign ourselves in our own narrow, limited views of perfection, which would probably weed out folks like me pretty quickly despite all the ways in which we've added to the human experience. So forgive me but it's not something I take lightly♡