Demetra Nyx is on a mission.

The young sex coach and storyteller helps people connect with themselves and with others.

"I help people embrace all of who they are without shame," she writes on her Instagram bio.

Just scanning her personal website where she offers her services and counselling, it's clear she's very well respected by her clients. She has a very elaborate view on sexuality and how it impacts our lives.

"I help people own all of who they are without shame," she writes. "I help them discover the truth of who they really are, the true self hidden beneath the cover of their current lives, and I help them get what they truly desire."

Normally, this means working with people through issues of sexual repression, but lately she's taken a stand on a more common issue.

Periods.

She's not the only person to bring to light the controversy and even shame associated with a woman's menstrual cycle. Period. End of sentence recently won an Academy Award for Best Short Documentary. It focused on the stigma of menstruation.

Nyx is focusing on it too, but she's a bit more in your face about it. Or rather, in her face?

Nyx has been posting to social media with her own blood covering her face and body. She says she will do it every month until people are no longer shocked by it.

"I will do it until little girls stop being taught they the natural functions of their bodies are disgusting and unclean," she wrote. "I will do it until women stop feeling that they can't have sex on their period because it is gross.

"I will do it until we stop being embarrassed that we sometimes bleed through our clothing. Through your sheets."

She claims that her action has been well-received, insisting that many women have shared their own blood-covered faces in tribute.

"The idea isn't to get everyone to put blood on their face," she said. Noting that it does "make the skin glow." She says she just wants to make a shocking pubic display to get through to young women.

"Maybe someone somewhere will feel like: 'Well, if she can do *that*, maybe I don't have to hate my period after all.'"

Her action is bound to create some controversy. I don't think anyone should be shamed for having a natural bodily function, but at the same time I keep my functions private. I would also never smear them on my face.

She has a point, even if I don't agree with how she's making it. What do you think?