or GTFO

I was raised on 1, but nowadays 0 just makes sense to me.

I don’t give much of a damn.

Though, seriously, is this a question for the men or the menstrators?

(that is a pathetic excuse for a pun, I’m not trying to exclude lesbians)

Because if you’re having nasty fibroid cramps, sex is the last thing one wants to think about (fetal position rolling around on the floor clutching one’s stomach, more like) but if you’re at the hormone ridden humping table legs part of the cycle it’s very different?

Tuomas, I think you of all people would actually specify this in the question. ;-)

I left it deliberately open.

<3 <3 <3

red dressing gown to thread.

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I think I was 21 the first time a girlfriend started her period while we were going at it. It was hot as fuck. I can still remember vivid moments from it even though it was like several lifetimes ago. That was the end of any I’m-still-in-grade-school-and-my-balls-haven’t-dropped-yet squeamishness on my part about this whole deal

yeah this is just a no brainer imo

I can’t have vaginal sex on my period; I’m too tender and sensitive down there then for it.

no fucks given

(why?)

0 days is my policy, but my current gf won’t let me do this. i actually sort of miss it tbrr.

sorta want “if you ain’t gonna wash it” to weigh in on this thread for a possible minority opinion

one of my exes was just insatiable when it came to sex and she got impatient waiting for her period to be over, so she’d often want to do it in the waning hours of her period.

the last time we did it....I got red on me. it was kinda gross. but still worth it.

...but did you eat it?

seriously judge dudes that are afraid of period blood

If I were straight, I would probably definitely have my red wings. (and if my female partners were into that, obv.)

To be clear, my understanding of “red wings” is that they are earned through oral.

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I wouldn’t care, but I’ve never had a girlfriend who was down.

Voted one because these days my period is very heavy but doesn’t last that long so it’s easier to wait than it is to set up the Dexter-esque kill room required to keep the bedroom from looking like an abbatoire. Otherwise I wouldn’t care.

ah, the imagery

My last long-term gf was on monophasic birth control pills which she took every day (as opposed to actually using those blank placebo pills they sometimes put in those 28-day cards) and hasn’t had a period in over 5 years. Given how often I hear gripes about menstruation-related emotional and/or pain issues and the seeming inconvenience of needing to use tampons or pads, I remain perplexed at why this isn’t more common. Perhaps those here who have two X chromosomes can fill me in....

(and yes, I’m aware that this doesn’t work for all women, and that hormonal contraceptives can have problematic side effects, and that some women like having periods as reassurance that they’re not pregnant).

Menstruation seems like a hassle, and I like the idea of streamlining and modding or hacking nature, so no periods sounds great.

it’s kind of the one universal thing any woman can point to when one of us douchey guys complains about how much it sucks being a man, and automatically win the argument.

also Sandbox Jesse if you mod nature, and they find out, they’ll stop you from playing with other people

it’s kind of the one universal thing any woman can point to when one of us douchey guys complains about how much it sucks being a man, and automatically win the argument.

um whatever dude, periods are super fucking low on my list of ‘shit that sucks about being a girl’, thx.

that is like saying “it sucks more to be a man because the pain when you are kneed in the crotch is worse”

uh...it’s actually nothing like that at all

fwiw, the point of what i was saying is that periods at a base level are one reason dudes can’t ever whine about how it sucks being a dude. be confrontational if you want tho. obv there are worse things, but i will tell you my ex had very brutal periods and used to say verbally that they specifically were why she hated being a girl.

childbirth wouldn’t count cuz well she ain’t had kids

point being, it’s different for everyone

Might I point out the appropriateness of someone named “if you ain’t gonna wash it, i ain’t gonna eat it” posting in this thread...

Worried about pesticides on fruit?

getting defensive about this is maybe nagl, BJD

I’m sorry... BJO

I should have said made clear that “menstruation seems like a hassle” ONLY means that it seems like one of many bodily hassles, not like it’s a pathology that medicine is finally able to treat.

hormonal contraceptives can have problematic side effects

is why some of us don’t use them

Yeah, but I think he means specifically if someone is comfortable using them 3/4 of the time, why not just go for 4/4?

The only girl I’ve asked about that said her periods weren’t bad and that there was some reassurance to having them at all.

I feel compelled by how annoying I find the username to say that I will eat it whether you wash it or not so tell that one guy to enjoy his evening at home with the television & a box of handiwipes

sorry man but i gotta defend the right of any party to decline chowing down on unwashed genitals

I feel bad for people whose first thought when they’re fixin to chow down on some genitals is IS IT CLEAN???

well tbf they obviously feel like the odds of it coming up again within a reasonable timeframe merit choosiness

Bragging about your willingness to eat unclean vag is just... n/l xps

much prefer trader joes’ pre-washed vag in a bag

everything about this question screams NUNYA to me

Bragging about your willingness to eat unclean vag is just... n/l xps

― smoove operator, Saturday, 24 December 2011 23:20 (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

it is obviously anyone’s call to kinda hold off on doing something they don’t feel comfortable with wrt sex, but it bums me out to think that people’s comfort at fucking w/a partner is going to be contingent/relative to how “clean” they are. I guess I am talking here about people feeling like they ~should~ be clean. sorry I feel gross putting clean in quotation marks but I do think it is kinda a weird gauge to have, here, even if you can wheel out a small spectrum of perceived-cleanliness to support it. it is nice to go down on someone & trying to align it w/bathing routines seem a sorta weird barrier that impedes on that.

“so you have explosive diarrhea, if you were a real adult comfortable with your sexuality you’d let me eat it”

i guess if your spectrum of cleanliness extends from the times at which you’ve just bathed, at one end, & then the times at which it’s been a couple of days and moreso it’s been a couple of those days at which you just freely soil yourself without changing then, sure, i’m okay with more nervousness about being “unclean”. but is it that, really? i really don’t think a lot of good is gonna come from soliciting the thread for experiences, but i don’t feel like the variation in people-who-are/feel-clean, & people-who-feel-unclean is significant enough to shape your routines around. i used to be with someone who was uptight about it, it wasn’t gonna be a huge deal in the bigger picture of ~what was happening~

generally speaking, this is not an issue unless you are about to have sex with someone who may or may not have ham crotch, and even then it is between you and your potential funkbuddy at that moment in time and not really anything that is worth making a “rule” about

Every post in this thread us terrible, this one included

hang on one sec lemme google ham cr actually wait carry on

well yeah there’s no need for rules—& much less for a detailed colour-coded calendar hung on the wall above the bed—but i still think that getting away from cleanliness driven hang-ups is a small & worthwhile goal in this respect

schlump otm, it’s just so weird to me when a person’s first thought in re: getting some ass is “I hope the genitals are clean!” like that is up on some weirdo serial killer shit to me

“check this woman out, she’s crazy hot & says she likes you, you interested?”

“ONLY IF SHE CAN PROVE THAT SHE HAS SHOWERED WITHIN THE LAST HOUR OR SO”

you smell so great

but you don’t smell like shea butter

so i’m goin home

see you later

lol, no one’s first thought is “man I hope that person is clean”, come on

this only comes up when the underwear comes off and Pepe Le Pew smacks you in the nose and that’s not your thing

dan pepe le pew was nothing if not romantic

sexual assault is always the way to a woman’s heart, it’s true

i have no memory of PLP other than him popping lovehearts, is that cartoon one of those things that there’s a dreamcrushing adult-level reading of?, that he was not a good guy?

i am google image searching w/the filter off right now to try to find something amusingly suggestive of pepe le pew giving oral sex but it isn’t clueing me into anything re: his sexual politics

i mean what is the internet even for

lol are you kidding? every single Pepe Le Pew cartoon was about him attempting to force himself on a cat who wanted nothing to do with him and was struggling and fighting to get away from him while he forced kisses on her

alas I have no good Pepe Le Pew/red wing jokes to pull this back on-topic

Sex without recent showered? NBD.

Oral without recent shower? Probably not happening, but there’s no way I’d expect a girl to go their either. Our shit gets just as funky, if not worse.

lol are you kidding? every single Pepe Le Pew cartoon was about him attempting to force himself on a cat who wanted nothing to do with him and was struggling and fighting to get away from him while he forced kisses on her

ha yeah ty i really had forgotten this but obviously it explains so much about where i have been going wrong.

i sometimes think there is a weird meat-eating thing where people draw seemingly arbitrary distinctions between what they will & won’t eat—so say between eating like a wing or a breast—both of which would be fine—but then stopping short of eating like liver or some other organ, both of which would be gross. & i get that & felt that way when i ate meat, but at the same time you kinda feel like once you’ve started plucking shit out of an animal you’ve crossed the main line & you might as well go all out, that you took a pretty big step by eating a thing & that the rest is splitting hairs. that the line is in the wrong place. & yeah sorry that this metaphor’s going where we all feared but i can’t see why going down on someone is unthinkable one day & fine the next—freestyle diarrhea involvement notwithstanding—because the difference is a fairly marginal blip compared to whether or not you are someone who is into the general interfacing that goes on in that whole thing.

some women don’t want you to eat their menstrual blood

some women don’t care

I don’t think it’s really my place to tell any of them what they should or shouldn’t be comfortable with

i am not proposing anyone get all pepe le pew insistent about it

Oral without recent shower? Probably not happening, but there’s no way I’d expect a girl to go their either. Our shit gets just as funky, if not worse.

― milo z, Saturday, December 24, 2011 6:56 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

I very strongly differ with the 1st and 2nd sentences, and I would even say that diarrhea, infections, and other extreme conditions aside, a recently showered crotch is less enticing than one that’s had some time to...cure. Before I lost my sense of smell due to a brain injury, smell was a major turn-on for me, including crotch musk, plus sweaty pits (esp. “clean” sweat), and general body musk.

OKC should have questions based on the topic of showering w/r/t oral.

i sometimes think there is a weird meat-eating thing where people draw seemingly arbitrary distinctions between what they will & won’t eat—so say between eating like a wing or a breast—both of which would be fine—but then stopping short of eating like liver or some other organ, both of which would be gross.

Weird yeah. I’ll have the filet Mignon, but you go and knock yourself out with the brain and spinal column.

^^ spoken like a man who has never feasted upon brain and spinal column

Sandbox Jesse otm, if you showered this morning and we end up in bed tonight, yr probably just fine unless you spent the day flinging drywall or on a grain elevator or something

I’m gonna give everybody on this thread head just as part of an experiment w/this btw so nobody shower until I’ve finished collecting the data

I suppose I’d have an issue with going down on someone who was seriously unclean; it’s just that I don’t at all consider blood to be unclean, which is all we’re dealing with if someone is having or recently had her period.

how to go down on a lady. :

1 you have to pretend that whatever i smell like is exactly what you fucking expected. our body chemistry changes and shit. today’s uncooked bacon and body wash is tomorrow’s hint of soap with a touch of old meatloaf. we have to stop being cute: everyone’s vagina smells like meat or fish or tampon residue, and we need to stop lying about that shit. no real human woman has a pussy that smells like the produce section at whole foods. vaginas are moist, damp, covered in hair, kept in the dark, and packed to overflowing with bacterial flora and fauna; and it also happens to be spitting distance from my butthole, where diarrhea comes from. that shit is not supposed to smell like a spring day. can i clean it up? YES. will i still smell like a sexually-aroused human female? ALSO, YES. pussy stinks. deal with that shit.

That blog evidently written by someone who has never been with a guy who isn’t clueless about cunnilingus....