I was listening to Stuff You Should Know Podcast and they had this episode on how pills work. It is an amazing podcast and an awesome episode.

https://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/how-the-pill-changed-the-world.htm

There was this aunty when we were young, she was also young cause that's how time works. What is it with me to give obvious reason where reason is implied. Anyway, uncle, the aforementioned aunty's legally wed husband, went to another country for a year. You know, people usually take pills when the couple is together, I mean in a marriage context with 100% fidelity. She took pills when he was away. Why you ask. Good question. So that she won't mensurate. If she mensurates, she can't go to the kitchen, she won't be able to cook. She did not have alternate-adult-cooking-person around who would replace her for four days a month. Not even four days, as rules dictate, three days of absolute nothing, then on the fourth day after a bath and purifying the areas you might have reached with gold dipped water, sun paani we call it, one can cook regardless of the fact mensuration might not be even halfway yet.  All of her children were toddlers, one little elder and much meaner than toddlers actually. Back to the topic, she took the pills so she can touch the kitchen every day during the time and feed those kids and herself.

Suppose there is a lesbian couple who adhere to the mensuration sham-ban rules of kitchen ban, puja ban, what would they do? I mean, who would cook? Staying a prolonged time together will result in overlapping cycles, such is nature and thus inevitable.


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