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* ''Literature/TheLongSecret'': Beth Ellen, on getting her first period, thinks she's sick. It doesn't help that her well-meaning but old-fashioned grandmother tells her a myth about rocks in one's body that cause menstruation. Fortunately, Janie happens to be visiting and tells Beth Ellen how menstruation actually works.



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* Vicar Chad Varah founded the Samaritans (the world's first crisis hotline telephone support to those contemplating suicide) because the first funeral of his career was for a 14-year-old girl who took her life after she had menstruated, fearing she got a venereal disease and having no one to talk to.

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* Vicar Chad Varah founded the Samaritans (the - the world's first crisis hotline telephone hotline to support to those people contemplating suicide) suicide - because of this; the first funeral of he presided over in his career was for a 14-year-old girl who took her own life after she had menstruated, fearing she got gotten a venereal disease and having no one to talk to.to about it.



* Professional wrestler Wrestling/AJLee said that when she had her first period at 13, the panic came more from her mother, who made her drop her pants and submit to an inspection to make sure her hymen was still intact, thinking the blood was from AJ losing her virginity.

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* Professional wrestler Wrestling/AJLee said that when she had her first period at 13, the panic came more from her mother, who made her drop her pants and submit to an inspection to make sure her hymen was still intact, thinking intact (thinking the blood was from AJ losing her virginity.virginity).
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* In the 2018 Salzburg Festival production of the opera ''Theatre/{{Salome}}'', this is implied to be the immediate trigger for Salome's fleeing from the party: She spends most of her first scene deliberately keeping her back to the wall, then turns around to reveal a red stain on her dress.
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* ''Series/{{Borgia}}'' introduces Lucrezia Borgia freaking out because she's woken up in a pool of blood. Her mother soon informs her what's going on, but this ultimately causes more problems as it begins Lucrezia's obsession with landing a husband now that she's "a woman" despite obviously not being mature enough for the responsibility of marriage.

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