Weirddave said it for me.
What can I say, 'Dave… great minds think alike. And so do ours.
I think what got me was looking at the topic list. Just below this title was “bean, beef and cheese burrito”.
Breakfast anyone? 
OT, the variety of ways this physical thing affects women does garner my sympathy.
Modesty went out in the 80’s. Nothing is too gross to discuss now. Remember when you would never see advertising for tampons or maxi pads on TV? While it is a very natural part of being female, some things really are best left unsaid. Most people have little desire to know what your body secretes, especially on a personal level. It amazes me that people would even want other people to know the personal effects of their body. 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.
Uh… I do have an ‘SO’… my husband of the last 10 years. And I posted this thread in full knowledge that it was TMI and gross. That’s actually sort of WHY I posted it. People post gross things on here all the time. Lighten up. If you have so little desire to know about it, why on earth did you click on a thread called “Vaginal Discharge”???
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Vaginal discharge? The rock band that plays “Stink, stank, stunk”?
No, Gosh, how old are you? I am in my thirties and those commercials have been on television since my earliest recollection. Hey, at least they stopped the ads in ladies magazines advocating using lysol as a douche.
Yeah, I first learned what my period was by asking my mom’s roommate what the heck a ‘tampon’ was that I kept seeing the commercials for. That was over 20 years ago.
Television advertising for tampons, at least, began in the United States in 1975, according to www.mum.org (search down for “television”).
TMI Alert.
I used to think I had heard it all (although the “rubber cement” analogy was new to me. Kinda like the stuff they use to glue on a free sample inside a magazine? You can stretch that stuff forever.
But after my honey gave birth, great googly moogly. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, somebody get a wet-vac. The most interesting part was when the nurse started telling us how passing clots is normal and that we shouldn’t be concerned unless she passed one the size of a grapefruit. :eek:
I own three pairs of underwear, and I own them specifically so that when my wonderfulness is drooling for one reason or another, I don’t have to feel nasty ooze sliming its way down my leg.
I think it’s MORE than appropriate to publicly talk about this stuff…if people were less scared to share information about their bodies, there’d be a hell of a lot less misinformation in the world. When I met my hubman his sons used my tampons as ICBMs (and I’ll tell you what…if you set those suckers (with applicator, of course) up properly, they SOAR!!) and I had to explain what they were for. My kids know a bit about it because I don’t hide it behind a mask of propriety and squeamishness (although I had to reassure my son several times that it didn’t hurt…at least, not like it hurts when OTHER things bleed).
If any guy wants a girl who has no vaginal discharge whatsoever, he can either be a freak and troll hysterectomy support boards or buy a RealDoll…women who still have their sexual organs are going to have discharge of one kind or another at some point, no matter how icky their SOs think it might be. It’s not like we do it on purpose.
And I have to agree that anyone who opens a thread called “Vaginal Discharge” and then complains about being grossed out deserves to bazooka-vomit all over their sterling tea service. It’s not like Opal had a misleading thread name, for crying out loud. Unless you thought this was going to be about the GOOD kind of vaginal discharge, which is a pretty big logical leap for a thread started by Opal.
(Not because she’s gross in general; just because she tends not to pull punches, so y’all should know better.:))
Poor moderators:( I’d volunteer to be one specifically for these threads, but I’m not old enough.
Judges? I’m gonna need a ruling on this. You mean there is a GOOD type of vaginal discharge? I can’t think of any. Unless you mean hoo-ha honey, which is more of a secretion than a discharge.
Now THIS is what I call concise effective writing. The title of the thread did not even need a TMI warning.
Once I saw my wife uterus on her stomach when our first was born by planned C-section and I started putting medicine on my daughter’s yeast infection, I have become pretty much gross out proof (within reason).
If you think the discharge stuff is bad, try getting kicked in the- Oww! Hey, stop that! Don’t throw that, it’s heavy. Hey!
:Abe Babe is buried in a pile of heavy and/or pointy objects thrown by 3 billion women.
Heck, I’ve BEEN spayed (uterus, ovaries, and tubes all removed, still got my cervix though) and I STILL have the occasional discharge. It’s just part of being female.
I must say that I really don’t miss my periods at ALL. Not for a minute.
Give it a break, folks. Of course I didn’t say not to discuss it, I didn’t say keep it hid, I didn’t say it wasn’t normal. And yes, I can read. I know what the title said. But for a message board that is fighting ignorance it seems we could find something better to discuss than what comes out the orifices of the body. The statement about the SO went totally over the head of some. It meant that I can understand after reading what people post on this board as far as not having any modesty and just spreading around to the general public all the bodily functions each day why someone wouldn’t have an SO. It was not meant in the context of a female not having secretions.
Yep, I could have skipped the thread, but maybe someone reading through it might understand that this type of posting is disgusting and a waste of the bandwidth and be discouraged to keep posting this junk. Do you actually think that anyone on the board cares if you wear underwear or not, so why broadcast it. I think that sometimes posts are made for shock value only, and that certainly discredits the respect a lot of posters gain over time on the board. Then again, most probably don’t care anyway.
My age? I’m 45, which means that in 1975 I was 19. So yea, I can remember before the tampon ads started. There are quite a few people on the board over the age of 30.
Um, hello, is not the name of this section “Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share”? Is that not a implied confession of the pointlessness of the contents? Perhaps you believe this entire section of the forum is a waste of bandwidth?
You need to chill out.
I’m sorry you think that the vagina and anything to do with it is disgusting and not a fit topic for discussion. Some of us feel otherwise.
I believe that this is why this section of this message board is described as Mundane and Pointless stuff to share, and is specifically set aside for, “general chatter”. As opposed to the I MUST FIGHT IGNORANCE WITH EVERY POST section of the message board.
As far as I can tell-- this appears to fall under general chatter. The topic was expressly written in the op and subject.
Moderator’s Notes: All right. Have we all, ummm, discharged the bickering from our systems now? I don’t wanna have to separate you gals. Try to play nice.
Or, maybe they’ll see your posts as a prime example of the idea of avoiding things you dont want to read about.