Everything about you and your body is disgusting.

Bettydumonde we have a spectacularly 80s beach towel. DP produced it from his airing cupboard the first time we DTD in full flow as it were. I noticed it had 'posh club' embroidered on it and fell apart laughing. Now code for 'I'm on my period' is 'I'm in the posh club' and he runs for the sofa/bed/carpet saving towel 😂

Didn't occur to me to use a special period sheet.
No wonder the Klop mattress didn't look too great.

Special sex sheets
That stuff spreads everywhere.
Special period sex sheets, genius.

Minesa

Seems very focussed on menstrual blood too.......

YY. I guess it's because that's how women and girls are especially disgusting to the average Buzzfeed "writer".

We’ve got one of those sex sheets but we use it to put over the couch when we go away in case the cat has an accident. Can’t speak for sex but they’re very absorbent when it comes to cat pee!

BettyFilous I'm more of a "sit in the shallow end" kind of swimmer. Would never have guessed leg hair actually created drag!

ps - not saying anyone who shaves is a bad feminist!

I went through a phase of getting my legs waxed and the increased ‘drag’ when swimming during the inbetween growing out phase made me go back to shaving. I embraced legsuits st the same time so I could stop bothering with my bikini line. Ideally, a triathlon suit so that I only have to shave the tops of my feet would be ideal, but indoor pools have all sorts of weird rules about major swimwear.

I shall share, with a small smile then, that what I refer to as nipple hair is in fact around my aerola, and feel as chastened as I would had I called my vulva my vagina

Only shaved bits of skin that would show.

I specifically don't shave the bits of my body that are visible because I actively want everyone to see my hairy fucking legs. I want every man and woman to see my hairy legs and hairy pits and maybe just maybe get a tiny seed of doubt planted in their minds about what women are supposed to look like. Maybe they'll think it's rank but later on take a minute to ask themselves why they think that, and it'll make a small crack in their misogyny. Or maybe one of them will think "huh, a woman who doesn't shave - doesn't look as weird as I thought. Maybe I'll stop bothering." Maybe it'll help a few other women feel like the have permission to just exist in their own damn bodies. Visibly being unshaven is my favourite act of covert feminism so fuck you Buzzfeed, now and forever.

ps - not saying anyone who shaves is a bad feminist! The country I used to live in had communal showers at the swimming pool where you had to shower naked, and there were always loads of really hairy women there. It had a really profound effect on my perception of the "normal" female body and made me feel like I had permission to stop performing femininity so I want to pass that on.

Goosefoot

So, people with special sex sheets - do you have to get out of bed and change the sheets every time you are in the mood? That sounds like a lot of work, or planning ahead.

Our bedroom is small - used for sleeping and dressing mainly (DH is 6'5" so he needs space to move around without knocking things over). When it does happen in there we try to not make a mess. Special "Carrie" bedsheets are put on the bed the day of menses start so no planning required.

The largest room is preferred (ottoman hideaway holds sex sheets and "Carrie" sex sheets to protect furniture) so no planning is required.

We don't have kids, just dogs right now so we really don't have any restrictions and we don't plan... kitchen, Florida room, wherever it happens but if it includes getting horizontal we have furniture protection close at hand (no floor stuff, I don't like dog hair stuck to my goods).

Best way to deal with post menopausal nipple hairs is to take your specs off before your clothes, I reckon.

These are words to live by.

Seems very focussed on menstrual blood too.......

Sounds like the sort of thing a drag queen would write - with that typical 'ew' factor that many gay men feel towards women's bodies.

Nipples don't have hair. The nipple is only the bit that sticks out, the surrounding bit is the aerola. They are covered with epithelium, same as lips. Nobody has hairy lips. Epithelium doesn't have hair follicles therefore hair can't grow there. Hair can grow at the margin of the aerola and the breast.

But how shocking is all this stuff about bodies being disgusting, driving a wedge between reality and an impossible fantasy. Not my fantasy btw.

Revoltingly misogynistic shite.

I think bodysuits are a chore for the same reason as pads with wings - nothing worse than trapping some pubes in a popper. Still, I keep thinking that it will be less of a problem for millennials and that maybe their time is now (as a fashion trend).

got your pubes trapped in your pads wings

How is this in any way gross? Mainly it's annoying and painful (like when you've been driving for a while, and realise that the adhesive has been pulling on some for a bit, and it's getting really, really painful)..

I don't have nipple hairs (yet), but plenty of chin and moustache hairs - I only pluck the really stiff ones though, because otherwise I just sit there playing with them.. I also have one cheek hair, that somehow manages to sprout instantly at about 3/4 cm long, but I have never caught growing to that length.

They only didn't do a 'secrey gross boy things' because it would fill the entire internet. Although there's a good selection on the Relationships board.

I thought it really IS the entire internet. The internet is formed by 40% cat videos, 9 % useful things and of that 0.01% is women's spaces and 51% disgusting or gross things men do.

And yes I wrote a peer reviewed paper proving those percentages

Best way to deal with post menopausal nipple hairs is to take your specs off before your clothes, I reckon.

This works for a lot of things.

Yeah, not clicking on that load of old shite

Succinct and on the money. I gave up women's magazines before I left school, all these types of articles are a form of manipulation and shame. Fuck that.

So, people with special sex sheets - do you have to get out of bed and change the sheets every time you are in the mood? That sounds like a lot of work, or planning ahead.

I'm not sure my nipples are capable of growing hair. It's the wrong kind of skin? My boobs generally do though.

Best way to deal with post menopausal nipple hairs is to take your specs off before your clothes, I reckon.

Works for cellulite too!

I confess I shave my nipple hairs - post menopausal I get a good few and they are irritating in my bra, seems quickest while I'm doing my armpits and I do keep up with those because mine get very whiffy very fast otherwise. Legs like a bear though.
Once, only once in my life, I shaved my pubes, the lot, as a treat for hubby, I'd never done it and I knew he was curious about this phenomenom, I'm normally a 70s style natural gal. So I did it the once, in my fifties, and promptly had a near-fatal accident. (not while actually shaving - shortly afterwards) Woke up in a hospital bed with many broken bones and staples all down the front where I'd had emergency surgery and once I'd groggily come to understand what had happened I thought, 'bugger all those docs seeing my bald minge!' (while I was bleeding to death on their table)