Menstruation Part 1

[fantasticmissfi]

...on my rags, got the monthlies, have my period, have a mouse in the house

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[fantasticmissfi]

I think it would be like that if you had no idea about anything and then you were suddenly told the whole concept. But I must have been told about most matters of reproduction at a very early age. Being the eldest, I suspect mum just answered my questions matter-of-factly while she was trying to get pregnant and ultimately had my sister. I have no memory of being told any of those things, so I already understood the deal and what to expect.

Stay tuned, there will be further installments on this theme. I think guys SHOULD be fascinated. It pisses me off when they're not. I wonder if those ones that aren't are just a bit stupid, or they're in denial. It's a fascinating thing.

xx

nods

[bilby1915]

not in quite that language, but yes, i did think "THIS IS SO UNFAIR!!!!!!" and "I DON"T WANT TO BE A GIRL IF THIS IS WHAT I HAVE TO GO THRU!!!!!!!" sorry for the caps, but i did feel like screaming when i found out "what a woman goes thru each month!!"

There was such a difference (to me) of hearing the facts theoretically, and then when it actually happened in practice. Knowing about it beforehand did not really help me. No one teaches you how to put a tampon in and the tampon box instructions are pretty useless when you are embarrassed and trying to hurry up so no one finds out what you doing.

[edenic]

I got mine just after I turned 12.

I waited more than six months before telling my mother. I always thought she would know, what with her doing the laundry and her pad supply dwindling mysteriously, but when I finally told her, she admitted that she had never had any inkling.

I suppose I wanted to prove that I could handle myself, that I didn't need or want her intervention in one part of my life.

[fantasticmissfi]

It's amazing how secretive and private you can become around this time. Sometimes it is referred to in passing by people, but that secretiveness and shyness is really quite a massive part of you then.

[nosyparker]

...on my rags, got the monthlies, have my period, have a mouse in the house....

Hey, me too! :)

[fantasticmissfi]

heehee

[facter]

as a man,t hat story just made me feel rather odd.

insights like that into the other sex usually do, isnt it funny?

[fantasticmissfi]

What kind of 'odd'?

Uncomfortable? Or what?

[facter]

no, not uncomfortable. im not uncomfortable about girls and their periods and all that. i guess just ...

i really dont know. for once, i am stumped to describe the feeling. its a hint of curiosity, and wonder, mixed with sheer horror and sadness.

maybe i'll jsut say i was completely fletcherated.

[fantasticmissfi]

That's a good answer.

(the first one, not the fletcherated one, though that one is cute).

[sunshinenoir]

I love vaginas~
they're such complex and fascinating things.
they're always changing in strange, subtle and interesting ways.
Penis's are rather frumpy by comparison.
+ you can't store anything in a penis.

[fantasticmissfi]

You have just the right attitude. :)

Except penis's aren't frumpy, they're wonderful sensitive and romantic things, and I adore them.

If you have a foreskin you can probably hide a gemstone. Or a money note.

But would they fall out?

[sunshinenoir]

I don't really think penis's are frumpy, they stand up and go into things. which is hell cool. It's just they kind of tend to stay even keel most of the time, they don't change secretions or smells or moods unless they're ill or unwashed.

they could hide a small jem. But falling out would be an issue... Particually if i were around fifi's and penis tried to stand up and say hello.

[fantasticmissfi]

Such a polite penis, always standing up to say hello.

See what I mean about romantic?

But it's true, they're pretty 'even keel', though they do get depressed sometimes too.