welcome to the menstruation store     The site is just getting started, and will be developed live online. Your feeback and suggestions are welcome. The menstruation store is an off-shoot of my work on vagina vérité™, a book of vulva portraits for women (so that we can see what we look like) that I've been working on since September 2000, and my experience at The Society for Menstrual Cycle Research conference in June, 2005. The conference theme was The Menstrual Cycle as a Vital Sign. There, I discovered just how little I knew about the menstrual cycle, and so, how little I knew about the workings of my body. For example, I didn't know that the monthly bleeding I experienced while taking birth-control pills was actually not my period. Which means that I had not been ovulating for the twenty years I took the pill. Somehow, I had missed that. That's a pretty big thing to miss for twenty years. My experience at the conference has inspired me to seek out the body-education I never did get in school, or as a young woman. I'll be doing my homework here at the menstruation store, which I intend to develop into a store of information and products that support health and promote wellbeing. —Alexandra
	more about the site   recommended links     About Alexandra Jacoby Alexandra Jacoby is a self-taught painter and photographer. A 41-year old activist, she holds two Bachelor's degrees, one in English Literature and one in Psychology. Jacoby grew up in Jericho, Long Island, and has been living and working in NYC since 1990. Contributing to the menstruation store If you'd like to recommend articles, web sites, or products, please contact info@menstruationstore.com    Justisse-Healthworks—Fertility Awareness Education, Natural  Birth Control & Holistic Reproductive Health  Period: The End of Menstruation?—a documentary by  Giovanna Chesler     please note the menstruation store is presented as an information portal, is not moderated by any health experts and is not in a position to offer advice about individual health concerns. Also, the menu links are not live yet.