Oh, yes. Sneezing can be a risky business on a heavy-flow day.
Ayup. I have very light flow most of the time; I only really need tampons for a day and a half. I practiced my kegels until I can retain the fluid until I get to a bathroom if I notice in time, but with sneezes all bets are off. Fortunately those same kegels come in handy in the expelling-on-demand part, so if it’s a sneezy sort of day I can plan ahead.
I vividly remember that the question I asked in my first sex ed class - fifth grade - of our female teaching assistant was “Can you tell when you’re having your period, like you can tell you have to go pee?” She said yes. I was pretty peeved to learn later that you *never *get as much control over the red river as you do over pee, and that the equivalent of potty training is not taught.
Ah, yes, tell me about it. The web of lies weaved by porn is pretty thick isn’t it ? I was sorely disappointed to find out that women don’t squeal in orgasmic ecstasy when sprayed with semen. It was Santa Claus all over again.
To me it’s a mixed bag. Yeah sex is not usually as simple as the edited scenes in porn movies, but good real-life sex is better than what is portrayed in porn movies.
My totally uneducated guess (I don’t think I’ve ever discussed this with another female) is that it’s no where near 95%. I only hover if the toilet is so filthy that a quick wipe with toilet paper won’t do it (and might get yuck on my hands), and there isn’t another, clean toilet within a reasonable distance. I actually hate those plastic seat covers you see in airport bathrooms… they’re slippery and I feel like I’m about to slide off or slide in. 
I’ve never been able to “hold” menstrual flow once it starts, although it starts slowly, for me, for at least the first couple hours, so there’s usually no damage to underwear if I’m paying attention. My vaginal canal also stings just a bit when it’s starting – no idea why, but it’s been a pretty reliable indicator that I need to take care of things before I get stains.
There are hoverers, but I don’t think it’s anywhere near 95%. Maybe 10%. More in especially skeevy restrooms.
Little realized fact: many public toilets are designed such that they spray droplets on the seat with some (not all, or they’d get fixed) flushes. A lot of the spatters you think are pee are really just… very diluted pee. That still should have been wiped up by the previous user, but weren’t the result of some jerk actually peeing on the seat.
God I wish I’d listened to all those pregnancy books and done my kegels. Ever since I had my daughter, my bladder control has gone down the crapper. Every time I sneeze or cough, I pee a little. Sucks majorly.
Up here we’re on septic systems and I (coming from the city with non-septicness) was sternly warned by my friend not to EVER flush tampons. I try my darnedest but sometimes you just have to pee and the pressure from that can cause a very full tampon to slip out before you know it. I have to confess that a few times I have declined to retrieve the tampon and have flushed it. I’m sorry, septic system.
Mine stay in pretty tight–I’ve never peed one out. Or flushed one–I’m quite good about that. But in your case, I can definitely sympathize with you not wanting to fish it out, as it were!
All this talk about periods really makes me wonder… is there a period fetish? Uncontrollable Hoover-level ejections of bodily fluids has got to turn somebody, somewhere on.
Quoth Freudian Slit:
It’s not something that we talk about much. For one, it’s a bit embarrassing to have a messy bodily function we have so little control over, and for another, the accompanying dreams often involve various women (sometimes specific people; sometimes a generic woman appearing only in that dream, sometimes even fictional characters) that a man might find undiplomatic to tell his significant other he’s fantasizing about.
I had to explain to my housemate that the brown ring on his penis he thought was a birthmark was actually the same scar every circumcised man has…
I’m not surprised that Santa Claus found it distasteful too.