Wikipedia's article on the menstrual taboo, a comparative survey of religious treatments of menstruation, consulted 2026-08-13.
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Reliability tier 3: a continuously community-edited tertiary reference with no formal peer review process, suitable for citable, checkable factual claims but not treated as authoritative on genuinely contested points. NotesWikipedia's article on menstrual taboo, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for the Sabarimala ban lifted by India's Supreme Court on 2018-09-28, the Ambubachi Mela's celebration of Kamakhya's menstruation, Sikhism's rejection of menstrual impurity, Shinto shrine and sumo dohyo restrictions, and Conservative Judaism's 2006 reexamination of niddah observance.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstrual_taboo
Source Typereference
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