Aibu to think why free flowing is not different from just wetting yourself

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So came across a link on you tube about free flowing women who refuse to wear sanitary products

Now periods are natural and are not disgusting in the same way having a wee is not disgusting and is natural bodily function

But weeing yourself as a adult and not using a loo would be
Unless your disabled or ill

How can you work this I am not even sure how hygienic it is

Or am I missing something

Free flowing was a cruel hoax to trick women I guess some women are gullible which is a real shame.

Free bleeding + an all-white yoga outfit.

Excellent thinking.

Kiran Gandhi ran the London Marathon without a tampon/whatever while having her period to raise awareness of women who don't have access to sanitary protection. I think some 'free bleeders' do the same.

It's not just a prank.

I thought free bleeding was a historical thing - at one stage being able to see the blood was felt to be a sign of fertility so young girls let it run so it could be seen at their ankle, under long skirts etc. When houses had tiled floors or straw covering the floor that was just swept out every day, it wasn't a problem but I can't imagine why anyone would choose to do it now.

A few years ago I read a blog by a 'free bleeding woman'. Apparently she'd wake up in the morning with 2 small half circles of blood on her inner thighs. And during work she'd just have to wipe a few times a day.

Clearly wasn't a 40 year old woman with fibroids. After a nights sleep my mooncup floweth over. I have to wear a pad otherwise there'd be a right old mess.

PigMcPigFace, I don't know about 10 periods, which seems a bit low for 25+ years of fertility but if you're pregnant every year and BFing the last one when the new baby arrives and have a relatively poor diet it will all impact on the number of periods you get.

YET another illustration of the fact that people are idiots.

See also: eyebrows, Trump, plastics use, Love Island... the list goes on.

I can't believe that any sane person would willingly sit in a puddle.

It was a joke created by 4chan that some women took seriously. It is disgusting.

Running the London Marathon to highlight period poverty is a bit priveleged imo she could go shower put use sanitary protection and go home.

Poor women bled less often because - high age for start of first period, frequent pregnancy, breastfeeding, and poor nutrition which led to missed periods anyway.
Different for well off women with good nutrition and nurse maids.

Running the London Marathon to highlight period poverty is a bit priveleged [sic] imo she could go shower put use sanitary protection and go home.

You serious?

So it would better not to mention it at all? Like it would be privileged for me to draw attention to food insecurity in this country because I can just go and have a sandwich afterwards?

I think the yoga + period film is fine - it's just showing periods as normal things. Although if she was a peri-menopausal woman with flooding that video would be somewhat different. Also I couldn't be arsed to watch to the end so maybe some blood goes elsewhere than her own trousers.

However free bleeding - if it is indeed a thing - is no different from snotting on bus seats really is it.

Are the TransWomen going to stain their clothing to be like a real free flowing women

Don't give them ideas. Period fetish is a real actual thing (that I wish I had never read about!!!)

Yes apparently it started as a joke to show how batshit women are, but then some people did take it up.

Does anyone else remember that woman who stuck a ball of wool up her fanjo and then started knitting with it?!

I do sometimes. But not to make a point. It's just comfy! I only have a heavy flow for a day and use cloth pads. On the lighter days if I won't wear anything at home. Just feels so much better and comfortable. I find my periods were shorter too after doing this. It doesn't affect anyone else because I don't 'bleed all over things'.

The pictures I've seen of women free-flowing (usually doing yoga in white leggings) makes it clear that they do not have a period anything like what I do.

the video of the yoga woman made me laugh.

If I get up when I have my period and my tampon is full, I have RIVER of blood down my legs before I get to the loo.
If I was doing that yoga video, the whole of the legs of outfit would be stained.

I actually do FLOW when on my period, proper blood running down my legs flow.

All this crap about a few wipes when you go to the loo just makes me I ma like that on day 5 or 6 of lucky

Does anyone else remember that woman who stuck a ball of wool up her fanjo and then started knitting with it?!
um what the actual fuck

Name changed for this...

My periods last three weeks with three weeks in between. About two of those weeks my period is no heavier than average vaginal discharge.

Wearing irritating towels or tampons for three bastard weeks is far far more irritating than the slight flow.

Even I would never do it if it was enough to go through to my other clothes tho!

I’m the same @skyejuly.

My periods are so light - I usually use a panty liner, literally just to stop staining and replacing my pants!

Blood is about the most 'dirty' of all body fluids. To allow it to contaminate other people's spaces is stupid and irresponsible.

Why would you want to do all that washing anyway? All your lower clothes would need soaking.

I believe Viking women used rabbit skins.

That cosmo article is so silly. Period underwear is only meant to hold a tampon or so worth. Of course they leak used alone all day!

I follow the yoga lady on instagram. She isn't advocating free bleeding, in fact I think she said that it wasn't 'free bleeding' it was a leak. In the message she posted about the lack of access to sanitary products that means some girls and women miss school and work, how periods are nothing to be ashamed about and that women get leaks sometimes etc. She wasn't trying to make 'free bleeding' a thing.

But why would you film your leak and carry on doing yoga