Freebleeding

[Aeroflotgirl]

I have just come across something about freebleeding. Women who do not use any san pro, and just let it all come out over themselves and their clothes, and any other thing they come in contact with. I personally find this disgusting, and unhygienic, as well as the risk of disease.

I use cloth pads, wonder if that's classed as free bleeding?

Its not a massive issue even if it were true anyway, doesn't affect me.

This is tragic aeroflotgirl. So despite ample proof that this is a hoax you insist there must be lots of women believing in it. So that you can continue to froth. Shall I make up a practice to inveigh against, or would that be weird? Bit like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion?

And fascinating that a poster near the top called these (made-up!) women 'cunts'. For this (made-up!) practice which affects no one but themselves. God, I'm so glad I'm not like you.

Oh charity there probably are some that believe in it.

Sanpro is classed as eligible for VAT by the EU. The UK government can't do anything about it (already at the lowest possibke level). Of course, if you realky want that changed, then UKIP will welcome you

(VAT of course never was a 'luxury' tax, despite sloganeering back in the 1970s. It replaced Purchase Tax - which UKIP seem to want to restore - which was much more like a 'luxury tax')

I think only women with very light periods could even contemplate this.

Well, as I don't hate and fear women's bodily fluids until they show positive intent to get them on me, I shan't worry about it.

Whole exaggerated "tampons are rape" thing may be a hoax, but I've definitely heard of freebleeding before, like nine or ten years ago. Have fairly clear memories of taking the piss out of it on Livejournal. I think it was more "my magical time of the moon goddess" types sitting on towels, mind.

Why must there be women who "believe" in free bleeding, Aeroflot? So you don't have to admit you've been a gullible nitwit?

Given how stigmatised and unmentionable periods still are why would it bother any women if* other women don't conform to the 'acceptable' practices?

• obviously I don't believe 'these women' exist but I'm fully chillaxed about it if they do.

We are actually a member of the EU, they're not a mystery body making decisions without our involvement. The UK government could propose the change to EU VAT legislation if it wanted to.

"We are actually a member of the EU, they're not a mystery body making decisions without our involvement. The UK government could propose the change to EU VAT legislation if it wanted to."

Yes, of course we could try. But it's not easy to secure the agreement of all members. And the risk of unintended consequences if VAT definitions were reopened is quite high. It's one I'd personally put in the 'don't touch with a bargepole' category. And I also think there are other issues than tax to be renegotiated, and I'm not sure we can tackle everything at once. But of there was a growing consensus that VAT reform was now needed, then perhaps it would be taken forward. Have any other EU governments expressed a view?

I use all san pro going in turn, including washable pads, jam sponge, tampons and normal pads. Tried a mooncup, but my cervix is too low to get a seal without being uncomfortable. So, I'm not from the 'tampons are rape' madness, or at all grossed out by my menstrual fluid.

Therefore, when I read about freebleeding a few years ago (what can I say, I'm gullible!) I was fascinated, and decided to give it ago. To my surprise, I found that at certain times of my flow (and I time it carefully), it works well, and saves a load of hassle carrying stuff out. Yes, my knickers and tights get a bit of blood on them, but they wash. I find tmi warning my labia clot together, so when I go to the toilet I can release the crust, let the blood come out, and then leave it again for an hour or so. So, while it may have started off as a hoax, I'm in favour of anything that enables women to not treat their menstrual fluid as disgusting and disease ridden, and allows people to find ways they can manage AF.

Now off to name change again...

Navies I'd love to sit on a train seat covered in period blood. Or go go swimming where there's a trail of bloody discharge following a swimmer, or even try on jeans in a shop that someone has bled over...

It would potentially cause issues for others using publicly shared facilities.

Navies?? Uh not sure what that's supposed to be.

There's a Facebook group dedicated to it who are planning a bleed-in in Texas.

Well it was my thread about food banks and sanitary towels and I am sort of a freebleeder! I'm disorganised and have light periods so often end up using a bit of tissue.

I hate the thought of tampons but obviously that's for me not women generally.

There's a world of difference between using a bit of tissue and bleeding heavily over your clothes and furniture isn't there. Why would you want to bleed over everything, if you had a massive gash in your leg you wouldn't just drip the blood everywhere would you.

Or am I missing the point?

There's a Facebook group dedicated to it who are planning a bleed-in in Texas.

I can imagine the organising that would take.

I'm due on next Tuesday, what about you? Really? Darn it, that's a nuisance.

I've been doing this menstruating thing for 34.5 years now. I finally have the luxury of saying that I can get away with using nothing or just a small liner for most of my period. As for the first day, I'm buggered if I'm spending the day when I feel extremely weak and crampy running around after myself scrubbing up bloody arse prints from everywhere I've sat, or changing my clothes every few hours, because no, the odd wipe with loo roll doesn't quite cut it when the floodgates first open. Far more liberating to just have to change a tampon or pad every couple of hours and do away with all the other crap, so I can get on with my life as much as possible.

Hang on, OP. You start a thread saying this is disgusting, and presumably you did so because you had never come across it before. Several posters give you chapter and verse to show that it is a stupid hoax Yet your only response is to cling obstinately on to the view that there are some women who do it without quoting any evidence whatsoever. Frankly, I can't work out your thought processes at all.

Hoax. It wouldn't be difficult to create that picture either.

Clearly it was set up by some people with way too much time on their hands.

It is very easy to create spoof photos. I have seen one or two on FB that are very realistic looking, and some are quite spectacular. I recall one of the side of a bungalow on which was such an enormous spider that it was the height and width of the house itself. It had been created by super-imposing a close-up shot of a normal sized house spider onto a photo of the bungalow.

Don't believe everything you see. The camera can easily be made to lie.

Silly me I forgot I'm too thick to have an opinion of my own and have been brain washed by the patriarchy

"And actually, if you have a female dog"

Initially, I read this as 'if you have a feminist dog' - and actually spent a moment pondering how one would know.

Perhaps it would bite you whenever you did the ironing?, Saskia.

My dog (neither female, nor as far as I am aware feminist) would absolutely love it if me or dd tried freebleeding. Yum yum