In that case (if I may hijack just a bit) - guys, how do YOU prefer to be informed your partner is menstruating?
My answer. Yes, it might feel awkward as hell in a new relationship, but if you’re intimate enough to be having sex…
I’ve never enjoyed sex during menstruation (mine, I mean, being of that persuasion:)) just because it is so damn messy and while I don’t suffer from any symptoms to speak of, I’m just not that horny (now just AFTER, watch out! or any other time of the mth) But my late DH and I did many times,(get out the towel) back in the early days of our relationship (you know, back when we were both up for it constantly and the idea of waiting was not considered a viable option, lol).
I wouldn’t hold it against a guy who was grossed out (though it would sure make me feel better if he weren’t).
One thing to never do is surprise a man with it. Imagine if you were making love to someone and suddenly realized there was unexpected blood involved!:eek: The initial surprise, while short-lived, is not a turn-on, I imagine. I accidentally did this to DH one of our first times together…knew I was getting ready to start, but hadn’t yet and we were going at it and he pulled back and there was blood all over him and he sort of freaked, thinking for a second he’d injured me somehow (these men and their egos, lol!:D) In retrospect, I should have mentioned the possibility. Man grew up with a mom and 3 older sisters, I THINK he had a handle on it:p
I am absolutely baffled as to how one might have sex (well… good sex, anyway) and still remain in any way “polished.” 
If he’s already heard me make completely undignified animal noises (and I’m comfortable letting him), talking about my period is a complete non-issue.
I use the standard euphemisms (“my monthly visitor is here”) or “I got my period” interchangeably, generally followed by “do you want to lay down a towel or do other things?”
And count me as a fan of “Our date has fallen to the communists.” I desperately need an opportunity to use that!
Guy here:
She tells me “TOM” has arrived. Which is a mixed blessing. On one hand, that means she’s not knocked up. On the other, that means I will be having some “alone time.”
Hell will freeze over before I have sex with her then. That’s absolutely disgusting to me.
Well I, for one, have a good attitude abou***(BLAM)***
It’s OK… I, on behalf of all menstruating women everywhere, forgive you. 
(but you do realize that there is nothing dirty about it (no worse than your spunk, at least) and that w/o it life as we know it would not be possible and it provides WICKED lubrication, and odds are, she can’t get pg, right? OKl nevermind 
D)
Awwww, it’s all good.
Chicken.
Suck on a penny, then go down during one of the good weeks. Thats what you will taste. You can still taste the goodies, they are just masked a bit. And it really is pretty gross(if you over analyze it), and not something that you should publicly announce on a message board.
I however am blessed with red hair on my face.
I’m still trying to figure out what people with brown facial hair are trying to hide. I know there is a conspiracy there somewhere.
Yeah, I’m going to have to take your word on all that.
I use an online fertility tracker set up so the proto-husband gets an email alert to his Blackberry and generally knows before me. *That’s *geek love
Even in the early stages of our relationship I was well aware that he was perfectly comfortable with the mysterious workings of the feminine innards and didn’t need any particular menstrual disclaimer other than “you might want to put a towel down”. (He was known in our social circle for pulling out tampons with a flourish*, for example, which I feel is rather sexually well adjusted).
- I mean, in sexual situations. Not unannounced in the pub.
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I’m picturing this as some sort of sommelier champagne corkage moment. Does he sniff the bouquet and rate the vintage, as well?
Oh my god. This nearly made me fall over.
I now have this totally bizarre mental image of a guy in a pub trying to impress the ladies with some sleight-of-hand, reaching under a nearby skirt, and whipping it out with a grand “TAH-DAH!”
Starting with “Oh god, you wouldn’t believe it this time…” My wife usually goes on a long scientific forensic description of everything relating to texture, volume, smell, color, consistency, etc until I have turned completely white and I am literally clawing at the walls to escape to another room.
What is this “etiquette” word of which you speak?
Um… I never bothered to say anything and none of my BFs (and including my husband) ever minded when I was having my period. Orgasms are great for cramps (in alleviating the pain of them, that is).
Then again, if your menstrual cramps are of the “I want to die, after I take a hot bath, hot tea laced with whiskey and aspirin etc” type, perhaps that is a mood killer.
I just don’t see the big deal(?). YMMV.
You.
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My.
Ultimate.
Hero.
I LOVE this, Ferret!
I usually say, “Whelp…we should, erm, prolly…ya know…since…” And he’s pretty swift and catches my drift…
Or I’ll say… “Awww…no little SharkB8lettes.”
Or, “That bitch, whore, M.F.er is back…”
Yeah, I like to maintain decorum whenever possible.
ETA: Upon closer examination of the “Shark Week” thing…I wonder what that would make me :eek: