Periods - Men just don't get it.

I am in the middle of guinea pigging shingles vaccination for down to 50 years old [my particular one is in combination with the MMR vaccination given at the same time, different arm to see how or if it messes with the way the body deals with the vaccinations. So far I am titrating out just fine on all 4.]

this thread makes me want chocolate

Just ran across this brutally interesting site: Museum of Menstruation – link is to a history page about how women handled this in the more and the less recent past.

One thing this page notes is that the Greek physician Hippocrates may have observed that a woman’s general sense of well-being improved after Aunt Flow left and thereby deduced that bloodletting must be a good thing for the illing.

I think the idea was they felt better once they started bleeding, i.e. they were no longer premenstrual.

Could you elaborate on that a little more. I know it turns me on but I’ve never figured out why.

For me, it’s a “big fat pig” feeling. I feel like a giant inner tube full of gas, water, and shit is wrapped around my abdomen, weighing me down.

I have 5 sisters, from older to younger than I. Mom didn’t mess around with instruction for boys who were not paying attention. We learned pretty quick.

Never been a problem for me reading the desire for sex or willing to have this or that kind of sex from women I have been around who I am being intimate with.

But I’m old and usually didn’t even expect to get sex on the second date which seems to be the norm now.

Just in general true farm boys seem more attuned to this when it concerns their ladies.

YMMV

Then why would you want to swim, ride a bike, ride horseback, etc?

Most women feeling like that don’t - they normally just want to curl up with pain killers and a heating pad [or a pound of chocolate and a chick flick] modern society forces them to go out and be social, work their normal employment, go to school and so on.

I can definitely see the attraction of a menstrual hut where you lock yourself away for the week and have someone bring you food and drinks…
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Well, for one thing, the mouth is a rather sexual instrument. There’s a reason why kissing feels good, for example. And your lips even dilate a bit when you are aroused.

Plus… isn’t it fun to know you’re getting someone off? It works for me. :smiley:

Because your period abruptly shows up while you are on vacation.

I’ve got a big hiking trip scheduled for October. All I gotta say is that bitch had better not show up.

Personally, I’m somehow more active on my period. Movement and physical work eases what wimpy cramps I get. So I have more motivation and desire to work out, and even more energy.

And then, of course, I can get my chocolate candy reward. :smiley:

men are the sufferers of PMS.

on top of that it’s intentional.

The evolution of PMS: It may exist to break up infertile relationships

http://mq.edu.au/newsroom/2014/08/12/the-evolution-of-pms-it-may-exist-to-break-up-infertile-relationships/