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Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

Aldrans

2008-06-16

Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner

Nicole D´Incecco

1925

We went to primary school for eight years, and then two more years of trade school, always Thursday mornings and afternoons. I got my first period at that time. I was... I didn't know what to do! We were totally..., didn't know anything! That really was a big mistake! No, there was nothing, it was taboo. When I was young and a cow was being serviced, nobody was allowed to go into the stable when the bull... That was considered impure! That's how it was. I didn't get any sex education at all. A huge mistake, in those days... But ? as I said ? a lot of things were declared impure by religion. That's the way I see it. Even only talking about it would have been considered impure. I was dumber than God is mighty! When you get your first period you just stand there and have no idea what to do. Nobody ever told me anything about anything. My mother just said: "You'll be getting it every month from now on." That was all my sex education. Nothing more. Yes, that's how it was.