Self: Emma Alpern

In Outer Space Why do so many women believe their bodies are controlled by the moon?

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THERE'S A STORY you might come across if you spend enough time talking to women about the moon. It goes like this: Many years ago, in some far-off time before written records and industrialization, and definitely before hormonal birth control, the full moon was powerful. It was bright and suggestive. With its plump, glowing presence, it tugged at the luteinizing hormone in women. In this pure menstrual past, all fertile women were so influenced by what was happening in the sky that they ovulated together each month.