I think a lot of people think the whole area “down there”- like from clit to perineum- is called “the vagina”. So since the pee hole is in that area, they think they pee from the vagina.
I don’t think I gave it much thought until I explored oral with my first girlfriend. I’d spend a lot of time… checking out the plumbing, as it were, and saw the pee hole one day. I think it’s funny that most guys have a better, up close view of the area than women do. At least until they get to college and “experiment”.
Oh, she feels pressure, as the presence of your penis does tend to push against everything surrounding the vagina. But does she literally feel your dick against her inner vaginal walls? Not likely. Of course, going deep means likely more pressure on the labia and the clitoris, as well, which a lot of women like. (Just make sure not to accidentally ram into her cervix, cuz she might punch you in the head.)
(For example, during a pelvic exam, I cannot feel the spectrum inside me. I can tell there’s something in me, and I can definitely feel it on the outer inch or so of my vagina, but the part that’s up by my cervix? Nope.)
I had a friend who would change her tampon every time she urinated, because duh, it’s all the same hole. :eek: I know, the string can get wet and it’s an option to change it, but not a requirement.
Is it true lighter-skinned men’s penises turn all dark red/purple when they are erect?
It can get a little pinker just because of the increased bloodflow. But it’s not like it looks sunburned or like it’s 2 minutes away from suffocating to death or anything like that.
Even before sex ed. When I was . . . maybe 9 or 10, my elementary school started with the “hygiene” stuff, where they separated the boys from the girls and each group got taught some stuff. For the girls, it was about menstruation (sponsored, IIRC, Kotex), complete with a basic anatomy lesson that depicted all the orifices, the bladder, uterus, cervix, and lower bowel. That’s where I learned about the location of my urethra compared to other structures, and how menstruation worked (lining building up, egg released, lining sheds). I can barely remember not knowing this stuff.
This would have been around 1962 - 1963, so of course they did NOT identify the clitoris - I didn’t find out about that particular structure until I was 8 months pregnant and found an obstetrical textbook. It was all pretty much focused on what we needed to know to handle menstruation and was not really sex education.
So, thanks to Kotex, I was all up on female reproductive anatomy (well, except for the fun stuff) by the time I was 12 years old. Do they not do this in schools nowadays? I didn’t have sex education in high school, so this stuff in elementary school was all the sex ed I got. Until the OB textbook, that is.
So, can one of you guys tell me what the boys learned while we girls were learning about how to position a sanitary napkin?
I only learned a few months ago that when men sit down they are not in constant danger of sitting on their testicles. I was imagining them constantly worried about hurting themselves when they sat down.
Yeah, the sac doesn’t really reach that far, and the way pants are designed it’s even more difficult. Mind you, it can happen, but it’s only usually a problem if the surface is distinctly less than the width of your butt.
Pretty much just STDs. At least, that’s what the guys got. Some anatomy, but only the inside, and definitely no birth control. Sex education pretty much sucks in this country.
The 101 positions best suited to looking down a blouse, through the gap in the buttons on a blouse, up a short skirt, through any window that didn’t have the shade pulled firmly down, etc, etc, etc.
You have no idea how hard it was to be a teenage boy back in the day. (He-he, I said hard;) )
They didn’t in 1997, either, when I was in fourth grade. I don’t think anyone in the school system acknowledged the clitoris until freshman health class in high school. By then, though, I knew what everything was called, thanks to the library and Wikipedia.
Kinda unfair, I think. It would be difficult to gloss over the “fun stuff” so completely for guys.
So, guys who got the middle school sex talk: did you address masturbation? Sex? Or did that wait until high school, too?
I remember the 6th grade (or 7th?) splitting up of boys and girls, and us girls learning the basic hygiene stuff and the glories of becoming fertile, complete with film of a live birth. That was, what, 1976-77?
We had formal sex-ed in high school, too, with co-ed classes learning anatomy, diseases, and I swear, birth control - with emphasis on the rhythm method since it was a Catholic school, and all. In a school population of 600, I only remember 2 girls being pregnant. I have no idea how that stacks up against the public schools in the same area, though.
I took a sex-ed class in college, as a freshman, for an easy A. I figured everyone else was there for the same reason until I realized the guy who sat next to me for most of the semester flunked out. I had never seen anyone so clueless.
So, I’d say it depends on what part of the country you live in, and what kind of school system you attend, whether you get a good sex-ed or not.
I would beg to differ. It’s not a clear and present danger, but it does happen. To me, at least. Also, and just to make every guy in the room wince in unison : zippers and scrotums.
It’s amazing how many women think this. Not too long ago, I educated my cousin who is in her 50s. She never wondered how she was able to pee while wearing a tampon.
Wow. I think ours just covered how the pregnancy worked, but not really what the individual specific parts down there did. I thought “vagina” was that whole… well… thing! Everything that wasn’t part of the asshole was a vagina, IOW. I didn’t really understand the whole “other people’s anatomy is different from mine” thing at the time. I remembered my only question was “What happens if I have to pee while I’m having sex?”
That’s exactly what I thought! You have to go through several per day? That sucks! What about pads – can one soak up all the blood from a day?
