# Poll: Does having sex while you/your partner is menstruating squick you out? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 19, 2007, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-having-sex-while-you-your-partner-is-menstruating-squick-you-out/408629 "2007-06-19T19:21:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2007, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-having-sex-while-you-your-partner-is-menstruating-squick-you-out/408629/81 "2007-06-21T03:22:53Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí] Maybe now’s not a good time to ask what squicked out means? [/QUOTE] “Squicked,” in this sense, is a cross between icked-out and mildly-nauseated. ---
**Author:** ![Glassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Glassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glassy)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2007, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-having-sex-while-you-your-partner-is-menstruating-squick-you-out/408629/82 "2007-06-21T03:46:47Z")
My boyfriend doesn’t seem to mind it; I am mildly embarrassed. Neither of us finds it an adequate reason to forego sex. ---
**Author:** ![Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/db5fbb/32.png) [@Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2007, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-having-sex-while-you-your-partner-is-menstruating-squick-you-out/408629/83 "2007-06-21T14:09:03Z")
I don’t mind sex then, but my wife isn’t interested in it at all. I think we have had sex during her period maybe twice in the 25 years we have been together. Right now we only have sex about once a month though so it is pretty easy to work around it. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2007, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-having-sex-while-you-your-partner-is-menstruating-squick-you-out/408629/84 "2007-06-21T14:15:45Z")
It grosses my fiance’ more than me. It’s happened more than once that, while canoodling, I’d get up to retrieve a condom and she’d notice blood on my junk. She used to get pretty upset over it; much less so now that she knows I won’t freak out or get angry. Unfortunately, blood on our naughty bits tends to kill the mood for both of us. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2007, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-having-sex-while-you-your-partner-is-menstruating-squick-you-out/408629/85 "2007-06-21T14:19:13Z")
[QUOTE=Napier] Even oral. Of course, I always have room for pizza, too… [/QUOTE] BLEH! Did you have to combine those two? It’s going to be a couple of days before I can look at tomato sauce again… ---
**Author:** ![Foxy40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Foxy40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foxy40)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2007, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-having-sex-while-you-your-partner-is-menstruating-squick-you-out/408629/86 "2007-06-21T14:34:49Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] BLEH! Did you have to combine those two? It’s going to be a couple of days before I can look at tomato sauce again… [/QUOTE] An old boyfriend tried to perform oral during my period which I declined. He told me he had “already earned his red wings” and it was no big deal. I had never heard the expression before and wouldn’t mind if I never hear it from a lover again. ---
**Author:** ![Lunar\_Saltlick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/977dab/32.png) [@Lunar\_Saltlick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lunar_Saltlick)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2007, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-having-sex-while-you-your-partner-is-menstruating-squick-you-out/408629/87 "2007-06-21T17:38:21Z")
[QUOTE=norinew] [The Master would beg to differ.](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_306.html) [/QUOTE] Did you read the update (available as a link at the bottom of the Master’s original response)? ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-having-sex-while-you-your-partner-is-menstruating-squick-you-out/408629/88 "2007-06-21T17:51:13Z")
And speaking of red wings… nice username **Lunar Saltlick**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2007, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-having-sex-while-you-your-partner-is-menstruating-squick-you-out/408629/89 "2007-06-21T18:03:57Z")
[QUOTE=Lunar Saltlick] Did you read the update (available as a link at the bottom of the Master’s original response)? [/QUOTE] Well, I’ll be cotton-picked. I shall never trust Cece again. Perfect Master, indeed! ::scoffs:: 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-having-sex-while-you-your-partner-is-menstruating-squick-you-out/408629.md?page=4)