Please don’t hug me - i have my period

[LaFemme]

A little sex education goes a long way. Read this article:

https://www.healthyway.com/content/real-misconceptions-that-men-have-had-about-menstruation/

It’s a bunch of misconceptions some men have had about menstruation. I think my favourite one is if you hug me too tight, you’ll make it squirt out - just like a ketchup bottle.

Ladies, are we sharing enough with are men? Men are we sharing enough with you? TMI?

 

[stax 68]

5. Period blood attracts grizzly bears.

No, it’s not just an iconic line from Anchorman. Many men are genuinely concerned that being92 in the presence of a menstruating woman may put them at risk of encountering dangerous wild animals, such as bears or sharks. Supposedly this fear can be traced back to a bear attack in Montana in 1967 which left two women dead, one of whom was having her period at the time.

Bears..no idea but it seems....
It would be crazy to swim in shark waters in anything that was spreading blood in the water..

 

[MickeyLee]

5. Period blood attracts grizzly bears.

No, it’s not just an iconic line from Anchorman. Many men are genuinely concerned that being92 in the presence of a menstruating woman may put them at risk of encountering dangerous wild animals, such as bears or sharks. Supposedly this fear can be traced back to a bear attack in Montana in 1967 which left two women dead, one of whom was having her period at the time.

Bears..no idea but it seems....
It would be crazy to swim in shark waters in anything that was spreading blood in the water..

ummmmm, you're safe as long as the shark doesn't hug her too hard.

Do you really think women are free-bleeding at the beach?

 

[LaFemme]

ummmmm, you're safe as long as the shark doesn't hug her too hard.

Do you really think women are free-bleeding at the beach?

Isn’t Free Bleed a song?

 

[TexanStar]

It would be crazy to swim in shark waters in anything that was spreading blood in the water..

lol, you made it all of 1 post deep into a thread about menstruation misconceptions before adding a menstruation misconception yourself.

Here's an article from popular science if you want to do a bit of edumacation.: No, menstrual blood does not attract sharks
It's safe to surf during shark week.

 

[stax 68]

..Here's an article from popular science .

Awesome..cause everyone knows Popular Science are the experts on both Menstruation and Auto Maintenance.

 

[TexanStar]

Men are we sharing enough with you? TMI?

What's funny is there's this correllation between women sharing details of their periods with me in RL and us eventually sleeping together.

I don't know if it's just a measure of the level of comfort they had around me (that if they felt comfortable sharing those kinds of details it meant I was a close friend), or if it was consciously or subconsciously trying to communicate information about their fertility, but it is what it was... regular updates about cramps and flows and a few months later we'd be in bed together

Overall, it seems like this would capture the experience pretty well.

Or maybe this

Maybe a bit of this

Or a tad of this

Perhaps occasionally like this

 

[TexanStar]

Awesome..cause everyone knows Popular Science are the experts on both Menstruation and Auto Maintenance.

Umm....you know that Popular Science and Popular Mechanics are two completely different periodicals that both have the word Popular in their names, right?

Poor thing, I guess you don't...

Popular Science is about all things scientific, which includes the life sciences.
Popular Mechanics is about machines.

 

[stax 68]

Popular Science is about all things scientific, which includes the life sciences.
Popular Mechanics is about machines.

They are both fall into the MythBuster category..that's why they're called "Popular"

"This crow is smarter than your 5th grader" article is hardly real science.

Real science is published in journals...not Popular magazines.

 

[TexanStar]

They are both fall into the MythBuster category..that's why they're called "Popular"

"This crow is smarter than your 5th grader" article is hardly real science.

Real science is published in journals...not Popular magazines.

It's called "popular" because it's science for the populace. The magazine is over a 100 years old and is to disseminate science related articles to hobbyists and layperson enthusiasts.

Even though more than 90% of shark attacks worldwide are on men, and even though a person is 50 times more likely to be killed by lightning in their lifetime than to be killed by a shark, you can go right on believing that sharks are determined maneaters and women's vaginas are irresistable sharkbait.

 

[EllieP]

Some men don't know because they don't want to know. And some are just clueless.

 

[EllieP]

Instead of preaching to the choir shouldn't this be in the Ask A Man forum?

 

[TexanStar]

Instead of preaching to the choir shouldn't this be in the Ask A Man forum?

Is this addressed to LaFemme?

 

[Scarletbegonia]

Instead of preaching to the choir shouldn't this be in the Ask A Man forum?

The question still stands: are we sharing enough?

I recently had return of the flow. Yay, aging Mirena.
So, I actually had to mention such things to The Guitarist, who was likely assuming menopause.
And it’s tough.

 

[LaFemme]

I shared plenty with the men I lived with. Grew up in an environment of secrecy and didn’t want that in anyway for myself. So everyone got educated.

Women can get weird ideas about periods, too. The ‘not getting pregnant’ one is huge. So sharing accurate information is really important.

@EllieP if you feel this thread needs to be moved, go ahead. I just wanted to know if women talked to their partners about it. If they ever had to educate or dispel any myths. Not just if men believed any of the myths themselves.

 

[TexanStar]

Women can get weird ideas about periods, too. The ‘not getting pregnant’ one is huge. So sharing accurate information is really important.

When I was younger, a female friend once told me in earnest that if a boy and girl were roughhousing like in a flag football game, and she was having her period, if he accidentally touched her there she could get pregnant.

 

[LaFemme]

When I was younger, a female friend once told me in earnest that if a boy and girl were roughhousing like in a flag football game, and she was having her period, if he accidentally touched her there she could get pregnant.

Omg. Were they playing naked? And did he touch here with his penis? Otherwise...wow...just wow...

 

[EllieP]

I shared plenty with the men I lived with. Grew up in an environment of secrecy and didn’t want that in anyway for myself. So everyone got educated.

Women can get weird ideas about periods, too. The ‘not getting pregnant’ one is huge. So sharing accurate information is really important.

@EllieP if you feel this thread needs to be moved, go ahead. I just wanted to know if women talked to their partners about it. If they ever had to educate or dispel any myths. Not just if men believed any of the myths themselves.

No, it shouldn't be moved because I love it here, but it's such an educational tool that I'd like more men to be able to view it. Of course, I'm sure that 90% of viewers in Women's Issues are men anyway.

 

[LaFemme]

No, it shouldn't be moved because I love it here, but it's such an educational tool that I'd like more men to be able to view it. Of course, I'm sure that 90% of viewers in Women's Issues are men anyway.

Pretty much. Men, men, everywhere.

 

[693987]

Thankfully my sweetie is pretty dang on point about his knowledge. He apparently had some pretty funny misconceptions about women's health when he was rather young, but those got rapidly dispelled.