> It would be nice to be able to say — ‘It’s because I have my period’— but I cannot,” she says. “It is a banned word.” She cannot type “period” into the chatbo

> It would be nice to be able to say — ‘It’s because I have my period’— but I cannot,” she says. “It is a banned word.” She cannot type “period” into the chatbox of her porn platform. Why is this exactly? I mean, I know there’s a widespread social taboo around it, especially in certain cultures, but we’re talking about porn here, isn’t being transgressive the whole point? Far more distasteful things like manipulating and consuming human feces is well known to appear in pornography, but apparently menstruation fetishism is completely unheard of.