Marriage is less important, and in fact discouraged by Paul as a worldly distraction, in the New Testament, due to the first Christians' view that the world is soon coming to an end. It seems, based on the biblical text, that Mary Magdalene was an affectionate lady with some physical or psychological problems. The traditional view of her as a penitent whore seems to be literally a case of mistaken identity. Nor should Mary be faulted for coming from Magdala, a reputedly wicked town, which may be why she left it. This seems to be based solely on the Seminar's view that the historical Jesus did not advocate celibacy.
Purification takes longer, of course, for a menstruating woman.
Three well-known biblical women bear mentioning on the subject of menstruation. Laban doesn't dare touch either her or the saddle, and thus doesn't find his gods. The oldest man in the Bible is Noah's grandfather Methuselah, who lived for nine hundred and sixty-nine years. Methuselah is eighth in the ten-man Sethite genealogy, a list of who begat whom from Adam's third son Seth down to Noah, who was six hundred years old at the time of the Flood. Methuselah was a relatively young one hundred and eighty-seven when he begat his first son Lamech.