I’m a guy and yes I do realize that. Perhaps we can even balance this hijack with people’s desire to tell Schwa that, no sir “Bob” ma’am, that wasn’t a good thing to argue about.
But back to the hijack, what’s the difference between vaginal and cervical mucus? I thought that it was like… all the same stuff. No? Is there some sort of difference in density or some such?
And: good gods… being clinical can really take the fun out of sex talk.
“Sexually-intimate-partner-of-mine, I believe that the ammount of my vaginal mucus has increased and I would now be receptive to the insertion of your reproductive appendage.”
No problem - you ladies hardly ever complain when we hijack a thread into talking about belching, farts, and creative dump-taking, so poke all you want.
I know I made several posts in some thread a while back about the gender thing, but Search is not my friend today. FAM’s take on it is based on research that shows “male” sperm to be fast but short lived and “female” sperm to be slower but longer lived. So, for a boy, you want to have intercourse as close to ovulation as possible, so the boys outswim the girls and get to the ovum first. For a girl, you want to have it as far away as possible which still having a chance of surviving sperm (about 4 days before ovulation if you have good quality cervical fluid). The idea is that the boys will zip on up, get all confused 'cause there’s no egg yet and die off or wander off into the abdomen because they won’t stop and ask for directions. The ladies have taken their time, packed a snack for the road (they get nourishment from the cervical fluid as well as seminal fluid), printed out their Mapquest route and get there just when the egg wanders down the fallopian tube.
Knowing my own outstanding fertility, I had intercourse 6 days before scheduled ovulation (celibate for 3 months before and two weeks after) and now have a daughter. Yipee! While it was by most rules too early to have sperm survive, I’ve always considered it my earliest fertile day, and I was right!
Oh, and cervical fluid, also called “mucus,” (but “fluid” was chosen as a marketing tool. Seriously. People were creeped out by the word “mucus” and wouldn’t take the classes.)
Cervical fluid comes from the cervix itself and is secreted out the vagina - the actual vagina, not the labia. It changes consistency from watery to sticky to almost rubber-cementy. When it’s stretchy like half-dried rubber cement, it’s very, very fertile. It can be clear, streaky or white. Clear and stretchy - it’s baby-makin’ time!
It is NOT vaginal lubricant which comes from . . . well, they’re not sure where that comes from. There are some mucus producing cells which line the vagina, but they don’t seem responsible for all of the lubricant produced when a woman is aroused. It’s more watery than cervical fluid, and will evaporate off a finger quite quickly, whereas cervical fluid will not. That lube can confuse early FAMers, though. When she’s “wet” is NOT a good time to assess the cervical fluid.
I’m actually really curious here, I think I may do some searching and then start a GQ thread.
I wonder why that would be… There should only be a difference of one chromosome… but I guess when we’re talking unicellular little tadpoles, a little bit o’ DNA goes a long way.
And if you don’t, you can just swing by Jiffy Lube and they’ll swap it out for some new stuff and even top you off.
Bah. Directions are for the sickly and the weak, and I know exactly where we’re going. Yes, we’re supposed to be in a cornfield right now.
It might also take them longer if they stop every 15 minutes to pee.
(On a serious note, I thought that vaginal mucus maintained a negative Ph so as to make ‘life’ hard for the little tadpoles. I obviously need to read more on this subject. Who knew screwin’ was this complicated?)
Funny, whenever I look for pictures of women on the Internet, they all have a finger up their vagina. And too much eye make-up. Maybe I should use different search terms than “hot hot chixxx”? Nah.
Awwww schoot lavenderlemon I’m just a curious horney lil’ devil, any beneficial qualities are strictly accidental.
[serious] I’ve always thought that communication and taking an active interest in my partner’s health and happiness was the best way to really good sex and a healthy relationship. This specific topic is actually of interest to me right now, as I’ll be moving in with my girlfriend soon and we’ll probably end up wanting to have kids within the next few years. All knowledge is power, and now at least I can impress her by talking about the difference between vaginal and cervical mucus! [/serious (sorta)]
I’ve heard most straight men don’t like it when their girlfriends fuck them in the ass with a strap on as they spank their ass yelling ‘Who’s your daddy!’
I submit you’re renting the wrong kind of porn. And I will not post links. The woman with the tats and peircings to make her vagina look like a butterfly gave me nightmares for months.
OP, dear, I would say that you have control issues. So women can have sex “just like men”. So what? That should make you ecstatic! It isn’t some secret club. It’s sex. Unless you prefer sex with other men (not that there’s anything wrong with that), contraception and women having a say in their own reproductivity should be something you encourage. As it’s obvious you believe in sex before marriage.
I, like you, would like to see a world in which there’s no such thing as an unwanted pregnancy. I’m pragmatic enough to believe it’s probably never going to happen.
There are serious debates about abortion and good points on each side. What you presented wasn’t one of them. Your girlfriend most likely views you as a knuckle dragging misogynist who is trying to tell her what she can and cannot do with her body. I would apologize. Tulips are nice.
I’ll add to the resounding chorus of affirmations of this statement.
Having an abortion is not as simple (physically) as you’d like to think, and there is no way that abortions make women able to “fuck like men.” And just because you feel cheated that you can’t get pregnant doesn’t mean that fertile women everywhere have to think of that ability as some kind of blessing – I really don’t think it’s too much to ask of medical science that there be some kind of 100% effective birth control that doesn’t fuck with my hormones (and isn’t abstinence).
Why do you assume that sleeping on the couch has anything to do with sex? If my SO had said something as stupid as the OP, I wouldn’t want the physical closeness and intimacy that come with sharing a bed. It would have nothing to do with sex, and would have even less to do with “emotional blackmailing.” I’d be less likely to tell him to sleep on the couch, though, and more likely to just go sleep there myself.
“Never go to sleep mad” is a good rule of thumb, but some things can’t be settled before bedtime.
