Misconceptions abound on social networks and sexuality is a particularly affected subject.
If some can make you smile, others can have more important consequences.
This is the case of a publication that has been viewed nearly 300,000 times on Facebook in the past few days.
“If her menstrual cycle changes, it's because she slept with someone else.
Otherwise women's rules never change,” writes its author.
In other words, a woman whose menstrual cycle is not regular is probably unfaithful.
To find out more
20 Minutes
interviewed Jacky Nizard, professor and gynecologist at the Pitié-Salpétrière-AP HP hospital.
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“It's totally false!” explains Jacky Nizard.
Unlike most other species, human menstrual cycles are independent of sexual activity.
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If menstruation respects a 28-day cycle, many elements can disturb it, such as stress or fatigue.
But there are many others.
“It's a very sensitive process.
Some people have an unfailing regularity, others are more sensitive to emotions, “says the gynecologist.
Vaccines can alter the menstrual cycle
Even vaccines can modify menstrual cycles: “It is transient and without consequence, but mass vaccination campaigns and unprecedented in history against Covid-19 have shown that they could have an effect on regulation.
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Nothing to do with sex therefore, and Jacky Nizard insists on the fact that such an affirmation could have harmful and dangerous consequences.
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