To be horrified to learn that there are men .. TMI warning

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This is not a men bashing thread
There are actual adult men that are unaware that periods can't be controlled like other body fluids and that pads and tampons are there in case of leaks. That we can hold it in until we visit the toilet.

At first I thought bullshit, then I realised, actually how would they know unless someone specifically pointed out the difference. I can't remember ever being told this, because I started in primary school before I learned about it at school.

I discovered this from a Reddit post so probably bs that a single parent man who was probably quite poor and thought that his daughter was wasteful/ too lazy to just not wait to visit the toilet.

I have never in my life met any man that thought this, but then again, I have never asked, but then I think about how many millions of people are uneducated about things that don't really affect them.

This is batshit, right ?

I’m in my late 60s. At my mixed grammar school I did biology to O-Level but I don’t remember learning about periods at school, other than seeking out books in the library.

The hymen was referred to as the “maidenhead” and it was disconcerting to see road signs to the town when we had a school trip to Windsor Castle!

So let me get this straight, you managed to conceive DC without your husband seeing your genitals? I mean that in itself is a bit odd.

Thank you! I was just googling it - apparently produces seminal fluid and looks rather more like a fig than a walnut. I have relearned something new (presume I learned this during the anatomy sections of my Biomed course but that seems to have long flittered away).

We did CLC, with Caecilius and Metella, and Quintus (who my Latin teacher used to call Super-Q 😂). That wedding song still SLAYS me 🤭

So lovely that it did occur to you that it would be needed by them. I think you should be commended for that and I'm sure they were grateful for years afterwards! Sad for you, and other men and girls/women generally that so many people haven't ever been taught properly. I think sex/reproductive education is now taught universally so males and females all get to hear about it all but I suspect what is taught varies hugely.

Yes I agree.

Also continuing re the prostate, it is like a walnut or large bean. It appears to produce whatever secretion it produces, get cancer in old age and, um, possibly produce some pleasurable feelings during certain adult activities.

To the point that it would fall out while I'm on the loo.

That's what used to happen to me if I had a few wees without changing a tampon.

That's a good point I don't remember being taught anything about the prostate gland at school (early eighties) . Wonder why 🤔. I mean it important in the production of sperm .

Yeah my school told us it was like wearing. Imagine my confusion when I got my period. Don’t blame men really, why would they know if no one educated them?

This is really embarrassing, but when I was younger I used to often have a big clot that would come out quite round in shape, I never had more than one per period, and I assumed for the longest time that actually was the egg.

I think it’s probably not unheard of. Plenty of people have sex with the lights off so unless he got out a torch 🔦… It might have just never happened in the daytime … jobs etc.

Shockingly - I am only in my early 30s! This was a school in a european country, I really hope that things have changed in the last 20 years.

but the tampon is at least a finger length up inside... Urine shouldn't be able to get that

Mine definitely don't sit that far up. I put the applicator in to the base and push it in, but it's certainly not an entire fingers length inside at the bottom. The string also soaks up wee and it's attached to the tampon

I think fart suppression falls into two categories. The hold it in for later technique and the silent release method. You have to judge which to go for on a fart by fart basis. But both are quite possible and, I should have thought, far more often employed than the unhindered release approach.

Ive actually just tried it, put the cardboard applicator in to the base of it, pushed it in. Tested with a finger, I can touch the base of the tampon by the first knuckle on the finger tip.

But surely better to take too many? It's not massively more than you'd need. There s loads of posts on mn about women with heavy periods, some last more than a week.

The husband of my mother's cousin told my father that he had never seen his wife naked and they were married over 40 years! They were all born in the 1900s but even so it seemed bizarre.

@WanderingWitches you should not have questioned “the grandmother” who said it’s not possible to pee with a tampon in. Some of us can’t. It’s not that unusual. Just part of the myriad ways women are different.

That is not what she said...
She said you have two holes and she has to take out the tampon or it would fill up with wee.
It was on a post very similar to this one on twitter.

I remember working with an Egyptian female doctor who told me that she never realised men had balls that hung down behind their penises until the day she married. She had been a Dr 5 years already at the point. It did make me wonder about Egyptian medical schools...

If @NannyGythaOgg is correct, that book could be your autobiography. I knew about urinary incontinence so I’m not sure why the news of fart incontinence has come as such a blindside but it has really disturbed me. I guess because you can get those incontinence pants but not a fart muffler.

My 4 year old son has a better grasp of anatomy than this. Thanks to normal preschooler questions and a kid’s book on the human body. Scary that there are grown men who haven’t got it straight yet.

My mind has been truly blown at this!!

When I was about 12 I had really bad cystitis and was peeing blood. I told my mum who said it was my first period. When I said it couldn't be, because the blood was coming from where I pee she told me that's where blood comes from for your period.
I was really confused for the next few years although now I realise she probably didn't know. She went to a convent school in 1960s Ireland and would not have had any sex education.

Sally Ride helpfully told them they could cut that number in half with no issues. They still gave them to her with all the strings tied together so that they didn’t float about.
These days most female astronauts take measures to just not have periods while they’re in space, cos why wouldn’t you? 🤷🏻‍♀️