Driver’s license, credit card, ATM card, insurance card and cash are in the money clip. Car key fob is in the right pocket (or right hand jacket pocket). Honestly, what else does one really need?
Wet spot- it just sort of happens that way, it’s not some master plan.
Multitasking- yes, we can, but depending on the tasks, sometimes we just won’t.
Thinking about sex- I’ll get back to you in about 9 minutes.
Cleaning the house- this isn’t necessarily a male/female thing. I’m usually the one that announces we have to do a full house cleaning after I’ve been noticing it getting dirty for a while. However, my wife does regularly do the Swiffer/Clorox wipe/toilet cleaning, but those are just the minimum to keep the house from getting really bad. Sometimes a house just has to be cleaned, like seriously cleaned. And that’s my duty to make it happen.
Tampons - So the plastic thing houses an absorbent cloth of some kind? You stick the plastic up the hoo-ha, then do something I don’t fully understand, then pull the plastic out and the absorbent cloth stays? Is that how it works? Does the idea of sticking a piece of plastic up the hoo-ha ook you out? Did it ook you out the first time you did it? Did it hurt?
Pads - Does it feel like you’re wearing a diaper?
Menstruation in General - Do you feel a trickle of blood in the hoo-ha letting you know your period is starting? Or do you just notice blood in your underoos on the day you start?
Bowel Movements - Did you do the deuce at school in elementary/junior high/high school, or did you save it for home? (This question isn’t as ridiculous as it sounds: there were no doors on the stalls in any of the boys bathrooms in any of the schools I attended, so doing a deuce at school was out of the question). Do you try to avoid doing the deuce in public at all costs, or does it matter?
Adolescence & Growth - Was starting your period really a badge of honor amongst your junior-high peers (like in Are You There God It’s Me Margaret?)? Did your boobs hurt when they started growing? Did your nether regions itch when you started getting pubes (mine itched like hell!)?
I would still think that it was a bit cowardly to use the bathroom to avoid social awkwardness. The proper thing to do (In my mind) is for a lady to be prepared to pay half or even the whole bill. When the bill comes if the man doesn’t offer to pay immediately she should say, “Would you like me to get that?”
I don’t know about that one, but it is true that I cannot talk while I’m doing something. I’ve read that’s strongly sex-typed. Most women can talk while they (add numbers/thread a needle/chop vegetables/maybe even type? dunno) and most men cannot.
That’s easy…as guys, we tend to consider each action we are about to take from the standpoint of how much more work it is going to create down the line. For this reason, we drink straight out of 2-liter bottles (or milk cartons, take your pick), eat food held in a napkin over the sink, etc. That way, when we’re done, there is not much to clean up.
Women tend to look upon such behavior as barbaric. So we’re required to get out a plate and a glass that normally wouldn’t be there, and then we have to remember to put it in the dishwasher…
Ok ladies…when you go number 2 do you wipe the back end first or the front end? Follow up: Do you do the back from the back or a longer reach from the front?
Tampons - It doesn’t ook me out at all to put clean plastic or cardboard applicators in my vagina. The typical applicators are in two parts, like a telescope, after inserting the top half, you have to slide in the smaller part to push up the tampon. The difficult part is to not pinch anything while maintaining grip on it. Pinching hurts.
Pads - Thick pads are like trying to walk with a mattress between my legs; I don’t recall what wearing a diaper is like. Thin ones are nice, and now just as absorbent as thick ones now.
Menstruation in General - I don’t feel the blood trickle, but rather see it on the toilet paper first, unless it is a very quick onset period and the first notice is a large clot shimmying its way down and out.
Bowel Movements - All the restrooms I have ever had to use at school had stalls with doors, and yes, I move my bowels at school.
Adolescence & Growth - I was in grade school when I developed and first had my period. It was not a badge of honor; it was mortifying. My breasts did hurt to the point it was more comfortable to wear a bra to bed the first year or so.
The first time I heard it it was more like every 27 seconds, and it was both men and women.
Are there legitimate studies on this? I don’t get how there could be. But let’s try an experiment. Everyone, for the next 24 hours, keep a piece of paper nearby. Whenever you think about sex, write down the time. Guaranteed, every time you look at the paper, you’ll wonder if you’re thinking about sex, which of course will make you think about sex. We could do the same experiment with pink elephants and get exactly the same result.
You haven’t really gotten an answer to this yet. And you’re not going to get one from me. I don’t get it either. About the only place I spit in public is at the beach, and only then because I have too much saltwater in my mouth.
You got it about right. Your goal is to stop the flow of blood. The vagina is pretty elastic, so it conforms to the shape of the tampon if inserted properly. The first time it was explained to me, it kind of icked me out. But then you see how icky a pad is, and you take the lesser of two evils. It doesn’t hurt unless you haven’t inserted it far enough. Insertion can be tricky (and not at all recommended) when there’s not enough moisture (aka blood) to lubricate it as it goes in.
Pads - I’m much more aware of them than when I wear a tampon because they are so much more bulky and messy.
Menstruation in General - Do you feel a trickle of blood in the hoo-ha letting you know your period is starting? Or do you just notice blood in your underoos on the day you start?
Usually cramps give you sufficient headway to know what’s coming. Then you can put in a panty liner which will give you enough time to do what needs to be done. Seldomly, I’m not in tune enough to notice cramps and then, yes, you’ll bleed right onto your underwear.
Bowel Movements - Did you do the deuce at school in elementary/junior high/high school, or did you save it for home?
When you’ve got to go, you’ve got to go. But some people have an amazing capacity to hold their bowel movement until a convenient time arises.
Adolescence & Growth - Was starting your period really a badge of honor amongst your junior-high peers (like in Are You There God It’s Me Margaret?)? Did your boobs hurt when they started growing? Did your nether regions itch when you started getting pubes (mine itched like hell!)?
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No badge of honor. More a pain in the ass. It wasn’t openly discussed among my peers like it is today. No hurting boobs or itching that I can recall.
My question: What *really *goes on at bachelor parties?
Tampons: I hate them, but lots of women prefer them. They don’t hurt but I find them extremely uncomfortable.
Pads: It only feels like you are wearing a diaper if you use the ones that come in the dispenser in the ladies room. Normal pads (specifically Always Ultra With Wings) are barely noticable.
Menstruation: You don’t feel it start but most women get signals a couple of days in advance to let them know it is going to happen. Darker/thicker discharge, sore breasts, a need to consume as much chocolate as the world can manufacture, etc. Beyond that since I am on the pill I know exactly when it is going to show up, down to the hour.
Bowel Movements: I have no problem pooping in a public restroom. I have a bit of a problem if someone is talking on the phone in there while I’m trying to go, but otherwise I just go for it. I am not spending all day thinking, “Gotta poop, gotta poop, gotta poop!” when there is a perfectly fine toilet available to me.
Adolescense & Growth: Boobs are not like teeth so they don’t really hurt when they are coming in, so to speak. Getting your period was conversation fodder but not a badge of honor or anything. I don’t remember nether-itching but that isn’t to say that it didn’t happen.
I can definitely feel something (that is very hard to describe), usually about a day before my period starts.
I don’t care.
No. It wasn’t something I discussed with my peers.
No, but they did used to hurt for a few days each month, starting about a week before I was due to get my period. That continued on one brand of the Pill, but stopped when I switched to another.
Depends on the party. Could be strippers and beer like a stereotypical party. Could be the hookers and blow found in the “OMG! Men are scum” movies featuring bachelor parties. Could be poker and chips. Could be video games and porn.
Tampons: It’s like a cotton ball on a string, and there’s an outer applicator tube and an inner applicator tube. You insert the outer applicator tube into the vagina, and then push the inner applicator tube fully into the outer applicator tube. This pushes the cotton ball out of the applicator into the vagina. Then both applicator tubes are removed, leaving just the cotton ball on a string.
Menstration: It often starts so slowly that I first notice a little blood on TP when I use the bathroom. If it starts during the night or I’m really active and haven’t used the bathroom in a while I might find a spot on my undies. Contrary to some people’s ideas, not a lot of stuff comes out during menstruation. It’s only like 2-4 tablespoons/24 hours.
Pads: Feel like something is in your undies, but not a diaper. I don’t like them.
Bowel Movements: I do them wherever I need to, but I prefer no one else be in the bathroom when I do.
Adolescence: My boobs were sore when they were growing. I don’t remember any pube itching. Starting one’s period for the 1st time was a badge of honor amongst the girls, but at the same time periods were embarrassing. We were mortified if someone could see our pad, or if there was a leak, or if people could tell we were on it because they saw our supplies, etc.
Tampons Yep, that’s about the way it works. The actual applicator works somewhat like a syringe. The stick thingie that sticks out of the larger plastic part pushes the cotton; the larger round plastic thingie with the open end holds the cotton straight and away from the walls in there so it doesn’t stick. When you plunge down the stick thingie after you stick the tampon up there, it pushes the cotton all the way out into the, ahem, hoo-hah, and the nature of the cotton (sticks to liquid) keeps it in there. I don’t find it icky, but some people do. And if you do it wrong (i.e., don’t aim correctly), it can hurt.
Pads Yes, to some people it does feel like wearing a diaper. However, some women prefer them over tampons because tampons can be painful for some or just distasteful or less preferable.
Menstruation in General It can be a combination of those or something as simple as cramps.
Bowel Movements It doesn’t matter.
Adolescence & Growth Yes, it was a badge of honor for girls at my school anyway. So was getting a training bra (though these garments quickly lost their appeal once you actually started wearing them and got unexpected male attention). I don’t recall anything hurting or itching. I’d say that the pain you get during pregnancy in your knockers is far and away worse than that felt during adolescence.
Boys, does the idea of witnessing childbirth really scare you that much or do you just find it oogey? If you do find it scary, what part?
Do you really think fruits & vegetables are “chick food?”
Do many men try moves they’ve seen in porn on their SOs? (In my personal experience, this happens somewhat frequently. But I guess if you haven’t had much experience, you have to start somewhere.)
It’s not cloth, more like a really, really dense version of the cotton stuffing you find in the top of an aspirin bottle, with a non-woven layer (similar to the lining of a diaper or the outside of a pad) around it to make sure everything comes out when you remove it. Tampons that have applicators (not all of them do) have the plastic bit with the tampon inside, and a plunger. You put the applicator in till just the very tip where you’re holding on to it is outside the vagina, then depress the plunger to shove the tampon out of the plastic casing. The vaginal muscles hold the tampon in place and you pull out the applicator and throw it away.
And no, stuffing a tampon in there isn’t any ookier than stuffing a penis or a vibrator in there. It can hurt, though. Any type of vaginal penetration is painful if there isn’t enough lubrication, so you have to make sure the absorbency of your tampon is appropriate for your current flow. And most of us start using tampons before becoming sexually active, so if you have an especially small hymen opening it can hurt pretty badly. Mostly, though, it’s just kind of awkward trying to figure out the right posture and angling to hit the hole without jabbing the sides of the opening or the vaginal canal. Jabbing yourself with a tampon doesn’t hurt, exactly, but it’s not fun either.
As for pads, it depends on the type. The modern ultra-thin ones, no. The ones you typically find in ladies-room dispensers, that are as thick as my thumb, a little bit. Feeling yourself start varies by woman. If I ever felt my flow, things were already very ugly underpants-wise, but I’ve known other women who could tell they’d started before there was ever anything but a vague pink tint to the toilet paper.
I’ve only been to one, so the sample size from me is small.
There was some food, like sandwiches and chips. There was beer. Plenty of beer. There may have been some pot, but I don’t remember – I’m sure I didn’t partake. There was constant porn on the TV. At one point a stripper showed up. Rumor was that you could get her alone for $50, but no one took her up on it.
As has been said, pockets. Speaking for myself, it’s always the same pockets–car keys are always in the left front pants pocket, for example. This results in a “not quite right” feeling when I’m missing something somewhere, and I stop to find whatever it is I’m missing.
To answer the cleaning, as a male, I just. don’t. care.
I have tried to be better as I am raising a little girl by myself, but it is difficult. I have gotten better, but if left alone to my own devices without thinking about it, it will be thus: I can get myself to pick up all the bottles and containers and packaging from the various surfaces and out into trash and recycling, wash the dishes and put them away, and vacuum once every two weeks, but that only happens because simply moving becomes a hazard.
Being that I am going to have to deal directly with this vis a vis the aforementioned little girl in a few years, I would really like the answers from as many sources as possible!