Radical Menstruation

By the way Toumas OTM.

i am sure this makes me a bad man and a worse femminist.

(Yeah, it's icky)

I AM STILL SIGNING UP FOR BOYHOOD.

I do not.

Multiple orgasms, hello! This weekend HSA decided to keep count. We got to 7. :-)
-- Her Royal Highness Queen Kate (masonicboo...), November 5th, 2003.

I feel cheated :-(

The tampon/pad companies supply the teaching materials -- videos, guides for teachers, information sheets, free samples. Usually the teaching itself is done by a school nurse or someone in a similar capacity.

There has been no one in the history of the world able to confidently judge who gets the better orgasms.

Periods are clearly great. All that looking hot in tight white shorts while rollerblading => I wish I had them.

Anthony, see the teacher in South Park's "I don't trust anything that can bleed for five days without dying."

More seriously, although I can't imagine why anyone would want to hand make towels/tampons, any more than they would want to handmake almost anything else, I think there is a lot of ground to be gained in the attitude to menstruation. It is seen as dirty and shameful and the like by a lot of people (I obviously don't just mean men) and women are loathe to talk openly about it, and there is a lot of ignorance. I can't begin to guess how many times, when buying sanitary towels in the supermarket for my then-wife, the cashiers tried to wrap them up separately from everything else, to hide them. We've all known and heard of plenty of young girls who have been terrified when they got their first period. Ladyfest is small-time and won't change anything, but a genuinely outrageous and extreme opposition to these problems might lead us towards a more sane synthesis or middle ground in the future.

There are some scare stories circulating about dioxins in name-brand tampons and other products. (Yes, dioxins are nasty; no, reputable scientists do not think they are in tampons in high enough a concentration to cause the problems these scare stories claim.)

Most boys are not so OK with feminine products. I knew it was love when HSA actually went out early one Sunday morning to get a pack of Always for me when I was caught out early!

(Though I do know girls who feel awkward and uncomfortable purchasing condoms, as well.)

Best purchase ever: a bottle of vodka, a box of condoms and a jar of vaseline. (All for totally unrelated purposes, but it did make the counter girl at Sainsburys stare.)

I don't know if the bf would be embarassed to buy me tampons, because it hasn't come up yet. I keep such a huge stash that I rarely run out, and just tend to stock up whenever they're on sale. I'm like a squirrel, me.

Now for my own horror story, which I'm sure I've mentioned before as it's so traumatic. My exboyfriend snuck up behind me in the hall between classes in 7th grade, opened my bookbag, and found my pads. He immediately started throwing them all over the hall and saying, "Hey! Look everyone!" But then I guess he realized no one cared and he slunk off.

You make this sound like it happened in the jacuzzi.

I don't have a problem talking about stuff like that with the boyf either, of course he is just humouring me and could care less about the new "cotton like" topsheet...

On a shopping expediton for various girlie things for me the checkout lady asked him if he was leading a double life and sniggered, he was tres embarrassed!