# Vaginal Discharge **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 30, 2001, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-discharge/96064 "2001-11-30T03:03:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-discharge/96064/61 "2001-11-30T22:57:02Z")
Are those tears more sticky or more slippery? Are they stretchy? ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-discharge/96064/62 "2001-12-01T00:39:47Z")
cartooniverse, all three of my cats were sure some horrible fate had befallen me when i read your post. they ran in to the room to save me! ultress, while i am with you on the somethings should be kept private, sometimes threads like this can be reassuring and informative. my family is rather packed full of women, and i can tell you NOT once would there be a discussion on this topic. the one time someone dared to use the “v” word, i thought my mum and aunt might have to be taken to the er. although there is the rather humourous story of the time we needed a bandaid for a cut finger and my aunt ended up with a panty liner on her index finger. she had NO clue what it was and why we were laughing so hard… now, that is ignorance at it’s best. ---
**Author:** ![Nicklz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8baadc/32.png) [@Nicklz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicklz)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-discharge/96064/63 "2001-12-01T01:09:40Z")
Well I’m a guy and I used to love going down on my girl friends, but now I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to do that again. ---
**Author:** ![seawitch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@seawitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seawitch)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-discharge/96064/64 "2001-12-01T01:15:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nicklz \* > Well I’m a guy and I used to love going down on my girl friends, but now I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to do that again. Oh, like there’s no such thing as penile discharge. It’s even the ultimate goal, right? At least you’re not in [sub]much[/sub] danger of your girlfriend discharging all over your face and hair. And wanting to film it. I swear, some guys use that thing like it’s a fire extinguisher. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-discharge/96064/65 "2001-12-01T01:18:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cartooniverse \* > \*\* > > If I can just find the article on the Internet, I’ll dash it over to your office, m’kay? 😃 A representative MAY be in touch with you sooner than you think !!! ( I know I’m gonna pay for this one, but since I adore **Cranky** , the fear is tinged with glee ). > > Cartooniverse \*\* Actually, you’re fine. The line you can’t cross with me is actually requesting a sample or a regular supply for your household repair projects. Then, my love, you’ve gone too far. But even with that reassurance… let me remind me that since I have your mailing address, you should beware of any jar-shaped packages from Michigan. Now would you all keep it down? “The Sound of Music” is on Fox. ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-discharge/96064/66 "2001-12-01T02:04:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hamadryad \* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by SterlingNorth \* > > Well, despite my protestations whenever these threads come around, I’m glad these threads exist. I’d like to be prepared and not horrified out of my wits if a girlfriend complains of some strange emission or another. > > I suddenly hear Dave Foley in the back of my mind, proclaiming, “I have a healthy attitude toward menstruation!” No, I need a rationalization as to why I keep reading these threads, and I’ve been using stupidity as my crutch for too long. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-discharge/96064/67 "2001-12-01T02:06:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nacho4Sara \* > \*\*Personally, I’m glad these threads exist, and I wish people were more open about bodily discharges and what not. I’ve mentioned before that nobody explained sex to me until I was all of 14-15. I didn’t learn about periods until I got mine and honestly thought I was dying. And no one ever told me about discharge. I thought I was sick when I was 16 and I made an appointment to go to the OBGYN without telling my mom. I was still a virgin, and the doctor was shocked when I told her why I had come: I thought there was something wrong with my hoo-ha because it was leaking. > > \*\* My mom told me a lot, but not that anything but blood would ever “leak” as you put it. I had no idea what it was for the longest time. That, and she didn’t tell me that when you first get your period they may be only a little, dark colored blood…after about three months of little spots, I finally asked her if that’s what it was! I wish I had gotten a hold of “Changing Bodies, Changing Lives” before my periods began, because it cleared a lot of things up. ---
**Author:** ![NaSultainne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8797f3/32.png) [@NaSultainne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NaSultainne)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-discharge/96064/68 "2001-12-01T02:06:31Z")
Can we talk birthcontrol pills for a moment? (I have that annual doctor appointment soon, and I can’t wait to ask about this.) I’ve heard that you can take the pill continuously without a break, thereby eliminating your period altogether. True? I don’t need them, as I’ve had my tubes tied after the third child, but the periods! Gads. Cramps, bloating, mood swings, a full freakin’ week of bleeding. I simply can’t stand this anymore and menopause is way too far off. All I can say if it’s true is, gimme, gimme, _gimme_! ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-discharge/96064/69 "2001-12-01T02:08:46Z")
Yay! Go go vaginal discharge!!! I dont have alot to report. I just finished bleeding today so theres a little bit o pink but nothing irregular or neat. I will say that the book ‘Cunt’ taught me SOO much about my cycle. The author claimed to be able to tell where she was in her cycle by the color and the consistency of her vaginal discharge. And she’s right. If you pay close enough attention, you can time the whole thing by where your juices are at. Neat, huh? -malk, who loves her vagina. ---
**Author:** ![Palve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Palve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palve)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-discharge/96064/70 "2001-12-01T02:42:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by modro \* > \*\*God I love having a penis, now more so than ever. \*\* Hear, hear! Although the little guy isn’t going to be functional for a while after reading… The one drawback to being a guy is the constant horniness factor. I can’t even walk down a crowded hallway without checking out the passing racks, much less do any rational thinking with girls around. But it’s a small price to pay for not having all that icky stuff come out of me. Two types of genital discharge are enough for me, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-discharge/96064/71 "2001-12-01T03:25:36Z")
I, for one, really like these threads. They’re funny, informative, and make me feel better about having female parts. Especially now, when I’m _juuuuust_ starting those last five days before my period begins. The normal mid-cycle secretions have finally stopped (thank goodness. I was starting to dehydrate!), and full-blown PMS should be whomping me in the ovaries any second now. [sub]Excuse me, but does anyone here have any chocolate-covered salt?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Rae\_of\_Dawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce7236/32.png) [@Rae\_of\_Dawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rae_of_Dawn)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-discharge/96064/72 "2001-12-01T03:27:36Z")
* * * If any guy wants a girl who has no vaginal discharge whatsoever, he can either be a freak and troll hysterectomy support boards * * * Yep, like she said, you still get a discharge but I haven’t have the rubber cement since I got the hysterectomy. I still have the rampaging hormones though since they didn’t remove the egg makers. As to the continuous use of bc pills, it was done in Saudi due to the lack of sanitary conditions. When you can’t take a shower without someone standing gaurd, well…the showers were also used by everyone, the “floor” of the shower if you were lucky was a wooden palet. I didn’t have any lasting effects from doing it and the nurses were the ones who recommended it. There might be a nurse or a doctor hanging out somewhere around here though who can give you an idea what the long term effects would be. Other discharge… I have had colostrum(sp?) from my nipples since I was 20 or so…it’s clear or milky in color. It has recently changed color. On one side it is a green/brown color. :\ One of the nurses who works with my mom said that it is caused by inflamation. Who’d ‘a’ thunk? I’m still going to have it tested, military insurance is a good thing but I haven’t had the time or a sitter at the same time to get it taken care of. Yes, bodies are weird and wonderful things. I’m glad I don’t have to put all that in latin, cause for the life of me I can’t remember what some of the latin is. I know it, just can’t think of it. I’m glad I’m a girl and didn’t have to worry about the class knowing that I was turned on when I had to go to the board. 🙂 I LIKE being a girl. ---
**Author:** ![anenquiringmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anenquiringmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anenquiringmind)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-discharge/96064/73 "2001-12-01T07:02:44Z")
OH MY GOD!!! This is the FUNNIEST post I’ve seen in a long time, I am almost literallly dying from laughter here!!! I mean tears and a painful stomach!!! I cant thank you enough whoever started this, this is the best laugh I"ve had in such a long time! I mean , just seeing the face that ponditLIsa posted was hysterical!!! Yes, it is grossssss as hell but I guess being able to relate and the fact that it WAS gross added to it. I LOVE YOU GUYS!!! However I do have to add my 12 and 1/2 cents worth. Rubber cement??? Nah, my money is on Egg Whites… God, you people just KILL ME!!! ROFLMAO\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\> Thanks again for the laughs!!! ---
**Author:** ![dtaylor404](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc79bd/32.png) [@dtaylor404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtaylor404)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-discharge/96064/74 "2001-12-01T07:41:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ultress \* > Remember when you would never see advertising for tampons or maxi pads on TV? No, I don’t. And I’m probably older than most of you (47). There have _always_ been advertisements for “feminine products”. Most such ads were so vague that we poor ignorant men had no idea what the product did. But the champion ad of all time, or so Allan Sherman suggested, was “Modess …because.” Nobody understood that one. After 25 years of marriage and two children, my gross-out point for bodily functions and excretions has risen considerably. (Don’t take that as a challenge.) > [@](#): > > When reading some of the things that people post on the board, it’s kinda easy to understand why they don’t have an SO. Personal stuff is personal stuff. Period. I don’t agree. You seem to be saying that sharing personal stuff = repellent, and I don’t follow that. It’s not like the thread has a misleading name… ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-discharge/96064/75 "2001-12-01T11:50:31Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by CrankyAsAnOldMan \* > \*\* But even with that reassurance… let me remind me that since I have your mailing address, you should beware of any jar-shaped packages from Michigan._\* :eek: OTOH, I’ll just slip that 'ole jar up on the shelf with the OTHER oddly shaped pacakges that have arrived courtesy of **Crank Central Shipping and Handling**. 🙂 \<\\> Uh…the check’s in the mail… Cartooniverse, your groveling mancub p.s. Is it just me, or did the image of Julie Andrews dressed in a modified habit make this thread **much** more interesting??? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-discharge/96064/76 "2001-12-01T12:36:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Persephone \* > Excuse me, but does anyone here have any chocolate-covered salt? Chocolate… Covered… Salt?! With the subject matter at hand I risk the permanent loss of my ability to consume pizza, but could you explain?? ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-discharge/96064/77 "2001-12-01T14:38:32Z")
sterling north, a common craving is sweet and salty during certain times of the month. a good solution would be chocolate covered pretzels or potato chips. in essence chocolate covered salt! keep some on hand at all times. ---
**Author:** ![Gund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8edcca/32.png) [@Gund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gund)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-discharge/96064/78 "2001-12-01T15:07:21Z")
I dig children, now more than ever. I can’t say why. I will insist (although I get only a 20% vote) that my future wife stays intact and natural as far as possible. I am envious to a degree that I cannot create a gift of the magnitude that a woman can. There is no other miracle in fact or fiction that can surpass that natural ability. Creation. You have to admit, with all the gooey bits (from a myriad of places) that on the whole and in a very general way, humans (from an engineering point) are fantastic, and I must say that I am absolutley fascinated by the female anatomy (gooey bits and all). I cannot wait to spawn. ---
**Author:** ![rsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsa)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-discharge/96064/79 "2001-12-01T17:08:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NaSultainne \* > I’ve heard that you can take the pill continuously without a break, thereby eliminating your period altogether. True? I can’t believe that I found a reason to post in this thread! I’m amazed that more women don’t do this. If I was a female, I sure think that I would. It may be healthier to have fewer periods as well. > **[MSNBC News - Breaking News and News Today | Latest News](https://www.msnbc.com/)** > > MSNBC breaking news and the latest news for today. Get daily news from local news reporters and world news updates with live audio & video from our team. [http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/skipping\_periods011030.html](http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/skipping_periods011030.html) ---
**Author:** ![Nicklz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8baadc/32.png) [@Nicklz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicklz)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-discharge/96064/80 "2001-12-01T21:56:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by seawitch \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Nicklz \* > > Well I’m a guy and I used to love going down on my girl friends, but now I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to do that again. > > Oh, like there’s no such thing as penile discharge. It’s even the ultimate goal, right? At least you’re not in [sub]much[/sub] danger of your girlfriend discharging all over your face and hair. And wanting to film it. > > I swear, some guys use that thing like it’s a fire extinguisher. \*\* Yeah, but the two discharges that we are talking about are _ **slightly** _ different. As for our _fire extinguishers_ we try not to make too big of a mess. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-discharge/96064.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-discharge/96064.md?page=5)