I'm on my period now...swollen, crampy...fatigue-ridden...and I'm reminded about how taboo the subject still is...people just don't like to talk about it...women in my office (me included) hide pads and tampons in their pockets or up their sleeves when they go to the restroom...why?
Why is this natural thing such a taboo?

I dunno, it is stoopid, I know...

it is stupid.

i have no problems with it, but unlike many gay men i am not vagiphobic

I'm not! I just say time to change the plug!

My ex didn't mind either, he actually pulled one out and tied it to his tv antennea!

CarrieLee said:

good on him.

because it's nasty

i suppose some folks are kinna creeped out at the sight of blood, especially due to the fact that it comes from...y'know, down there...

periods are indeed kinna gross and awkward, but i'm used to it and don't freak out.

AaronAlmighty said:

maybe, but it's part of female life. and with all the commercials you see about maxi-pads and feminine hygiene you think folks would be at least somewhat desensitized to it all.

I am a chick and periods are gross. I can't wait to the day when I stop having them.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

only to a certain level. when you think about the sloughing of the uteran wall, it's nasty

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Those commercials are embarassing and stupid. Like the one where this chick uses a long string of tampons to get a tampon that fell out a window.

stymie said:

yeah, that's like the only reason i look forward to menopause.

stymie said:

there was a commercial like that?? ugggh! and hell yeah, feminine hygiene commercials are so stupid...and they're misleading, too!! i dunno about any of the other women here but i for one do not run around smiling on a beach or somethin like that when i'm bleedin!

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

maybe you should. maybe it would brighten up the experience

AaronAlmighty said:

It is natural...why cos its red it puts you off, yet other body fluids dont?


Get your mind round it, it is just nature.

I hated having periods... Having to carry around extra pads, extra tampons. Worrying about spotting on your clothes... and on, and on...

I am so over that...

It doesnt bother me.

REDFEATHERS said:

blowing one's nose is natural too, but the results aren't appetizing.

AaronAlmighty said:

ummm...no. it's cold as hell in minneapolis right now, ain't no way in hell i'ma be runnin around lake calhoun and grinnin from ear to ear like, "i'm happyyy! i'm on my period--my heaviest flow just started today--and i kinna feel like crap, but i don't care! i'm wearin Brand X maxi-pads and i feel freee!!!"

REDFEATHERS said:

Yes, it is natural... but it isn't so pretty when it is clotty.

AaronAlmighty said:

But spunk is?


Hell, its nature... snot, sperm, periods, its nothing new so why get so bothered about it?

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

that sounds so fun!

It's not the blood or anything, it's just women are too damn cranky around their period.

REDFEATHERS said:

not especially

sag10 said:

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Me neither. I just want to go and lay down somewhere and take 600 ml of Motrin.

Marrk said:

Not all of us are

AaronAlmighty said:

throws a box of tampax @ aaron

REDFEATHERS said:

ewww, mama...gross, but too true!!!

Marrk said:

You'd be cranky if you were bleeding like a stuck pigs for four days a month in some of the worse pain some people will ever experience, for years. We won't even talk about what happens after you have the kids.