ROFLMAO! Oh, my sides! Kells, you kill me.
Having a wife and three daughters, it holds no mystery for me, nor grosses me out, except when they leave the occasional pad outside of the trash can…
I’ll add my vote to the prints… EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
I think I’ll let him write his own name, though.
Well, now, VB. Really! That explains so much about your daughters. <Just kidding, dear> 
As for the OP: menstruation has never bothered Mr Bear, although he won’t buy the necessary items for me unless it’s an emergency. And, we’ve often made love while I was on it, it’s great that way! Certainly more fun for me, and it helps the cramps a lot too. <I can’t believe I just told everyone that! :o>
As for the prints. Well, I am so glad that you and your mom are so close, that’s great. I’m not thrilled with that way of expressing it, though.
Shadowfox, I agree, I can’t decide which is funnier either! LOL!!
LOL! Rysdad. Good point. err…as it were.
I’m with lolagranola on this one. Yes, it happens, it’s natural, it’s femininity on a stick, and it’s GROSS. Tampons, pads, panty-liners, spots, streaks, and the occasional “OH FUCK!” (I believe TV commerials refer to this as “oops.” This is an “oops” the way Harvey Fierstein described “oops” in “Torch Song Trilogy.”)
An orgasm while on my period IS, indeed, the best…they should market Micro-Butterfly vibrators as “Krampz-B-Gon.” However, I’d rather relieve my OWN cramps than deal with washing towels and sheets and clothes and rugs and… The hub-man doesn’t seem grossed out by it, but the thought of him running to the bathroom immediately after with blood dripping from his yin-yang makes my spit curdle.
I usually go to the bathroom with the door open if my stepkids (and company, natch) are not around. I do this deliberately, so my kids will understand stuff like this.
“Mama, what’s that?”
“It’s a tampon. When girls turn into women they bleed from their vulva evey month and this keeps it from getting my clothes dirty.”
“Does it hurt?”
“Nope. And when [my daughter] gets big, she’ll bleed every month too, and it won’t hurt her.”
“Boys don’t do it?”
“Nope.”
“Okay.”
Just sorta, you know, hoping it won’t be a Big Mystery. It shouldn’t be.
And I’ve gotta agree on the “period piece” EWWWWWWWW!!! Factor. More power to ye’ and everything, but…ew.
Well, I think the print thing is kind of cool. Strange, yes, and I don’t think I’ll ever be un-repressed enough to do it with my own daughter, but still cool. Heck, anything would be an improvement on my own mother’s approach; I was in college before I realized there was nothing shameful about menstruating.
Well, now that you explained how bad her upbringing was, aviddiva, it doesn’t sound QUITE so bad…(perhaps it was a show of defiance)…
Still, I stand by what I said in that blood is bodily waste and not necessarily the cleanest thing. No, it’s not shit, but it’s still not very sanitary.
With that said, I think if I ever have a daughter, I’ll take her out for ice cream. And have a chocolate-fest. Any excuse for chocolate.
I’m with Kellibelli and Iolagranola. My period sucks ass. It hurts, it’s messy, smelly, and I don’t like using tampons because it’s a pain in the ass to change them, especially when I’m in a public place, and I bleed like a stuck pig so therefore, I have to use pads. Plus, I get VERY bad cramps.
And when I retain water, it’s not in my hips (Oh, I wish!)
I get it in my EARS…so I get earaches and headaches and migraines…and ugh!
The idea of celebrating womanhood is a crock. My sister was joking about how she wants her ovaries pulled so she doesn’t have to get her’s anymore. (We both get bad ones…)
And speaking of which, I’m due anyday now. Dammit!
Oh the stories I could tell… (but won’t)
For polling purposes, I have no probs with Menstrual-sex. None whatsoever.
No probs with picking up tampons, pads, whatever.
My only problem is with PMS. I understand how this is not so very pleasant for some women to go through every month. Without taking anything away from the discomforts you experience I’d just like to say a quiet little argh.
I had to go tonight to the drugstore to get some tamps and mydol. Naturally I couldn’t find them so had to ask the young (female) employee working in the aisle.
“Are these for you?” she asks, jokingly.
“Yes,” I answer, completely serious, “They are going to ensure my continued survival.”
I’ve never been a heavy bleeder, so sex during my period is no big deal. I actually find it quite sensual sometimes. It feels extra good during that time, and I’m extra horny during that time, so I like it. I don’t think there’s anything dirty or unsanitary about it. Like someone else said, there’s a shower ten steps from the bed and I have some dark blue towels that work perfectly to put underneath.
This may be weird, but I’ve always thought period blood was kind of neat. I’ll admit, I look at my tampons after I take them out. I am usually disappointed that very little comes out. It’s just such a bizarre human thing, it fascinates me.
However, I haven’t had a period in about two years because of hormone treatments I take, so maybe my memories are fonder than they should be. The sex thing during is great, but the cramps are terrible so I’m more than happy never to have another one.
Oh, and I’ve never had a guy who had a problem with it. Probably because I only have period sex if I’m in a serious relationship.
Holy shit, I am so sorry. Someone linked this from another thread and I did not realize I was resurrecting something from years ago.
Please don’t ban me. I just didn’t think to look at the date until after I already posted. Crap. :smack:
Oh, you know it’d be one of those “The touch, the feel, of cotton… the fabric of our lives!” with the mother-daughter bonding and the soft filter lens.
And just think, for once it would actually have something to do with selling cotton products.
Indygrrl, thank you! This was the most fascinating and hilarious thread I have read in at least an hour.
FWIW…
I get randomly horny while I’m on my period. Those wild hormones or something. I have no qualms about molesting my husband all week long. I might say “Tom’s here” just as a warning (Time Of Month=Tom), but then it’s off to the races!
I don’t think it’s beautiful, but it’s not particularly gross or at all shameful either. It’s just life. It may be a nuisance to have to remember to provide Tom with new toys at appropriate times, but realistically I’m more annoyed by the inordinate number of calories in chocolate than by the fact of my period.
My mom and I never bonded over it. We dipped out of the same boxes of Tampax, but that was about it. My dad is a microbiologist and AIDS education guru, so there were multicolored condoms in a basket on the coffee table from the time I was 12 (not for me at that age, more in the same spirit as putting out a jar of hard candies which nobody in the family ever eats, just in case a guest wants one), so there was no chance of me grossing him out with it.
I do have the moods, and I will be the first one to admit it. People who say PMS is just an excuse for bitchiness are half right with me: I’m a bitch most of the time, and one week or so each month I have a good excuse for it!
I also find this disturbing. I mean, this is essentially bodily waste. Would it be such a “beautiful experience” if mom & daughter were smearing their own poop together on a piece of paper? I don’t think so.
That being said, it’s also a rather biohazardous practice in that it’s dealing with body fluids, notorious carriers of disease. There are other mother/daughter bonding experiences that are safer.
Sex with a woman on her period isn’t so bad. Some things help you get over it, like knowing you won’t be alone with the person for quite some time, so it’s either now, or spending three weeks lying in bed wishing it was now.
I used to be grossed out, then I got a little ‘hands on’ experience with it in an intimate manner, and I came to the realization that it wasn’t any more disgusting (to me) than say a nosebleed or something. I’m not particularly grossed out by blood.
Just remember to throw/flush the hygene products away, unlike my friend’s roomate, who left her little cotton abortion laying next to the toilet. And when the ants discovered this, they feasted! :eek:
I think the idea of ‘period prints’ is awesome. Totally hilarious. Probably wouldn’t do it, but I do give it kudos.
After going on birth control, my periods have become much more manageable-- lighter flow and reduced/eliminated cramps and backaches. I’ve always found the bloody substances issuing forth from my vagina fascinating-- kind of disgusting, yes, but also amazing. “This could have been a placenta!” I say to myself in amazement.
Well I hope you didn’t embarrass the gentleman because it sounds like he’s a good guy.
I would have done the same. And incidentally, i’ve absolutely no problem with menstruation…
However, I would guess that I’m a bit older than your target audience. So …
Give 'em a break.
First off, I’m a guy.
But in my defense, let me say that I’ve been married twice for a total of almost 30 years, I’ve seen three children born and I worked in a hospital. It’s safe to say that I’m at least as familiar with all types of bodily fluids as any poster here.
Having said that…
I think there’s a happy medium somewhere between those two points.
Sometimes I think that the guys who are the most embarrassed at a woman’s period are also the most prejudiced.
Years ago, when I attended the American Institute of Baking, we had a three day series of seminars on different aspects of the modern baking industry. The last one was on women in management, because, as in many other fields, it had traditionally been a male dominated area. There were about sixty students, with 20% being female.
the speaker was really good, but to me he became immortal when one guy raised his hand in class and expressed the opinion that maybe women shouldn’t be managers because “there’s this…thing…that happens to them every month” We women bared our fangs and claws. preparing to spring. But the speaker defused the whole situation by leaning forward, with his eyes opened wide, and asking “Are you talking about their raging hormones?”
Everyone but that one guy dissolved in helpless laughter, the questiones slid down into his seat, and the whole thing was forgotten.
Oh, FFS, they didn’t lick the prints or use them as placemats for company.
It was a bonding moment. Not one I would have participated in, but hey, it worked for them, so who cares?
I hate my period, too. Can’t wait for menopause! But it never was a problem during sex. Somehow (and thankfully), I didn’t attract guys who were that uptight. In fact, like a previous poster, sex during my period made my cramps less severe.
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