It's not that I expect literature from my romance. God knows truely wonderful writers are few and far between. And I appreciate charecter developement, however, I do not want to read a romance where one of the major plot points is a women's period. I do NOT find it romantic or chiverous of a man to insist that his wife does not have the privacy to change her medieval pad. These scenes were GREAT charecter developement scenes; however, they revealed charecters that I do not care to know.