# Things you never knew about the other sex until recently **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 25, 2009, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-never-knew-about-the-other-sex-until-recently/490693 "2009-03-25T02:27:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Umbriel2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/4af34b/32.png) [@Umbriel2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Umbriel2)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-never-knew-about-the-other-sex-until-recently/490693/41 "2009-03-25T19:07:05Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Here I was, thinking that I knew all there was to know about women. > > Um, blue liquid? Famously used in commercials demonstrating the absorbancy of tampons and sanitary napkins. As a surrogate for other colors of dye that might skeeve out viewers. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-never-knew-about-the-other-sex-until-recently/490693/42 "2009-03-25T19:14:10Z")
Ah, OK. It’s the same stuff that TV baby poop is made out of. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-never-knew-about-the-other-sex-until-recently/490693/43 "2009-03-25T19:15:10Z")
> [@Umbriel2](#): > > Famously used in commercials demonstrating the absorbancy of tampons and sanitary napkins. > > As a surrogate for other colors of dye that might skeeve out viewers. Heh, yeah. Red…no, yellow…no, green…BAD infection, black…ugh, is she dying? Never occurred to me that people might think blue liquid came out, lol. And those Summer’s Eve commercials, “Mom, have you ever had that ‘Not so fresh’ feeling?” That made me think women were douching themselves all the time. Not so for most women. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-never-knew-about-the-other-sex-until-recently/490693/44 "2009-03-25T19:19:17Z")
> [@Cat\_Fight](#): > > I’ve mentioned this before, but I knew a guy who got to high school before finding out women don’t pee their pants every month. Damn blue liquid. I was sort of under that impression when I was a kid. I was probably 8 or 9 when I first asked about the commercials that made it look like grown-up women sometimes need some kind of diaper (because diaper commercial used the same blue liquid to show absorbancy). Unfortunately, asked a babysitter about the commercial, and she explained that maxi pads were for women who need them “because they didn’t have babies”. So up until I was about 11 or 12, I thought all women were incontinent until they had their first child. ETA: and that the incontinence maybe started sometime in your teens, but definitely at 21. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-never-knew-about-the-other-sex-until-recently/490693/45 "2009-03-25T19:21:49Z")
When I first knew him, my husband thought that women had to have a pad or tampon in place for days or even weeks, just in case the period came. He was 29 at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-never-knew-about-the-other-sex-until-recently/490693/46 "2009-03-25T19:38:11Z")
I had a high school BF who thought you used one tampon per period. “Dude, they come in boxes of, like, thirty! What do you think that is, a lifetime supply???” ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-never-knew-about-the-other-sex-until-recently/490693/47 "2009-03-25T19:41:01Z")
> [@niblet\_head](#): > > I had a high school BF who thought you used one tampon per period. “Dude, they come in boxes of, like, thirty! What do you think that is, a lifetime supply???” Guys would try to use just one. 😉 Why do you think we wear underwear until there’s only a hand full of molecules left? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-never-knew-about-the-other-sex-until-recently/490693/48 "2009-03-25T20:09:37Z")
> [@niblet\_head](#): > > I had a high school BF who thought you used one tampon per period. “Dude, they come in boxes of, like, thirty! What do you think that is, a lifetime supply???” You know, until recently I was a little unsure about that myself. I don’t think I thought it was one per period, but I wouldn’t think that one per day is unreasonable. Now I know better. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-never-knew-about-the-other-sex-until-recently/490693/49 "2009-03-25T20:14:26Z")
I knew guys in high school who were sure that babies were born from the anus. They were adamant about it, to point of wanting to fight with other guys who disagreed. :eek: The folklore, including one or two crude rhymes, implied that “the cherry” was something deep inside that popped when a girl was screwed deeply enough. :rolleyes: There was not even any giggling when the Zo class moved to the lacewings, _Hymenoptera._ I was in the Class of '67, and the only shreds of sex ed we got were in an overview of mammalian reproduction in Zoology class. Mr. Sanders replied to a question about birth control by saying it was illegal for him to discuss it in class. I knew all about it, because I’d looked it up. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-never-knew-about-the-other-sex-until-recently/490693/50 "2009-03-25T20:18:58Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > You know, until recently I was a little unsure about that myself. I don’t think I thought it was one per period, but I wouldn’t think that one per day is unreasonable. Now I know better. Well, one tampon can go in for eight hours. And there are some people who leave theirs in for a lot longer. And I know that on lighter days if I’m wearing a pad, sometimes I don’t change it for way more than that… ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-never-knew-about-the-other-sex-until-recently/490693/51 "2009-03-25T20:36:21Z")
Holy crap! I mean, overnight sure. But a lot longer than 8 hours? That’s just an infection waiting to happen… At least it is for me! Another thing: the internal walls of the vagina itself do not have a great supply of nerve endings, thus are not very sensitive to touch. So, you can’t feel that tampon when it’s in. That is, if it’s in correctly. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-never-knew-about-the-other-sex-until-recently/490693/52 "2009-03-25T20:47:12Z")
Really? My GF will go through a bunch in a single day. ---
**Author:** ![Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d9b06d/32.png) [@Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichini_Sanshigo)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-never-knew-about-the-other-sex-until-recently/490693/53 "2009-03-25T20:52:06Z")
> [@Cat\_Fight](#): > > _Friends_ taught me that men dress ‘left’ or ‘right,’ though the men I’ve queried since seem to let their members choose a side. Huh? I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Solfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Solfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Solfy)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-never-knew-about-the-other-sex-until-recently/490693/54 "2009-03-25T20:59:18Z")
> [@niblet\_head](#): > > I had a high school BF who thought you used one tampon per period. “Dude, they come in boxes of, like, thirty! What do you think that is, a lifetime supply???” I had a boyfriend with the same misconception. I also had to explain that no, tampons were not at all “fun” to use, even if they’re placed in a fun location. If they were, women really \*would \*have happy periods. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-never-knew-about-the-other-sex-until-recently/490693/55 "2009-03-25T21:01:36Z")
> [@Ichini\_Sanshigo](#): > > Huh? I don’t get it. If a fellow is wearing boxer shorts, his hangy-downs will hang down one side or the other. A tailor asks which side, because he’ll allow a bit more room in that trouser leg. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-never-knew-about-the-other-sex-until-recently/490693/56 "2009-03-25T21:02:37Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > If a fellow is wearing boxer shorts, his hangy-downs will hang down one side or the other. A tailor asks which side, because he’ll allow a bit more room in that trouser leg. I really don’t know what I’d answer. It varies. ---
**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-never-knew-about-the-other-sex-until-recently/490693/57 "2009-03-25T21:11:22Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > If a fellow is wearing boxer shorts, his hangy-downs will hang down one side or the other. A tailor asks which side, because he’ll allow a bit more room in that trouser leg. I’ve been fitted for suits, and whenever my tailor has asked me this, it’s been when he’s taking the measurements. I’d always assumed it was because he didn’t want to inadvertantly touch me when he’s measuring my inseam, legs, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-never-knew-about-the-other-sex-until-recently/490693/58 "2009-03-25T21:11:43Z")
> [@niblet\_head](#): > > Holy crap! I mean, overnight sure. But a lot longer than 8 hours? That’s just an infection waiting to happen… At least it is for me! > > Another thing: the internal walls of the vagina itself do not have a great supply of nerve endings, thus are not very sensitive to touch. So, you can’t feel that tampon when it’s in. That is, if it’s in correctly. Yeah, it’s a bad idea. I read a story by a girl on [Nerve.com](http://Nerve.com) who said that she was going through some serious problems (drugs 'n eating disorders galore) and that apparently she started menstruating and didn’t know it and had a tampon go septic on her up there. It had to be taken out piecemeal with forceps. **tdn** , on my first day I go through them quickly. But after that, it’s more like two or three a day. Sometimes four. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-never-knew-about-the-other-sex-until-recently/490693/59 "2009-03-25T21:16:45Z")
> [@Shark\_Sandwich](#): > > I’ve been fitted for suits, and whenever my tailor has asked me this, it’s been when he’s taking the measurements. I’d always assumed it was because he didn’t want to inadvertantly touch me when he’s measuring my inseam, legs, etc. This reminds me of that “Friends” when Chandler goes to Joey’s tailor to get a suit fitted and the tailor ends up fondling Chandler’s balls, quite advertently. When Chandler tells Joey, Joey’s all, “No, that’s just how they do it,” until he realizes that his tailor’s been molesting him for years. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-never-knew-about-the-other-sex-until-recently/490693/60 "2009-03-25T21:22:11Z")
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