Quick! Is there some kind of protocol for staying at new bloke's house when menstruating.

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This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever posted.

I've been dating a guy for a few months. I've stayed at his before. We're going to dinner tonight and I'd like to drink & have more time together so I'd have to stay at his.

Thing is I'm on. Do I just say "I'll stay but I'm not shagging you", or would the proper thing to do be to just drive home?

I'm so shit at dating!!!

If you have any kind of PMT you will probably find he has your cycle on a spreadsheet so he knows when not to piss you off.

Just tell him FFS, it will be terrible for your relationship if you go all coy on him and he doesn't know why.

Treat him like a grown up and just tell him.

And someone asked about infection - period blood isn't dirty or infected (unless your blood in general is infected e.g. with HIV).

Period sex is just sex but a bit messier. I've found that at the start of a relationship when you just can't get enough of each other or have limited opportunities is exactly the time it matters least.

These days, after 17 years, it's a handy excuse for me to avoid sex though!

It will always be one the highlights of my dating days to see my uber manly army officer lover on his knees, giving his shiny, boyish, clean cut face a nice Dolmio grin, on our reunion post Iraq tour.

MAKE LOVE NOT WAR, PEOPLE.

Fucking hell

ELVIS..... I can't un-read that ... help me!!!

< passes the smelling salts to indigo18 >

Period blood tastes meaty, like steak, perhaps a Chateaubriand? And is a fundamental part of women, if we're in good health.

not a good idea to date a man who doesn't like steak, or women in good health. QED.

It's a bit like the erm "male equivalent", you probably wouldn't want a glass served cold in a restaurant, but as part of your lover and part of enthusiastic, dirty, fucking? Hell yeah.

Thanks Any .....feeling weak....might be thought of dashing army officer on his knees tending her fanjo...

gets coat

... faints clean away...

Off to see anyone special, Elvis?

This puts a new complexion on the sketty bol I had for my tea

I really don't think I would judge a man that didn't have his Red Wings < ahem >

My handy phrase for moments like this is "I need to manage your sexpectations" . You can borrow that if you like.

I'm sure he wouldn't object to your wine and blow jobs proposition OP.

I used to quite like sex whilst on the blob but I've gone off it- it hurts these days, everything's just too tender.

I am about to be banned from mnet for sniggering at shark week, and red wings.

OH is tutting because he is watching that thing about blokes on an island and I am disturbing his viewing pleasure

Just showed DH this... his exact words, "I think I'd prefer meat well done, ladies. Bloody and dripping just ain't my thing. I prefer my kisses with a little more sun, and a little less rainbow."

I spat out my water laughing!

It's a bit like the erm "male equivalent" - Well isn't the equivalent; squirting, female ejaculation? Or as DH likes to call it - honey from the honey pot or badger's mash (you know, Bodger & Badger).

I'm starting to think I have a huge irrational phobia about period sex....really? Does everyone do it? It wouldn't have even occurred to me...

mind you I spend most of the cardinal's visit in my onesie sobbing into a tub of Ben and Jerry's and wailing 'but I'm soooo fat though!...so probably not in the mood for romance

Multiplemama, your husband is a genius!

I tend not to for the first day or so of my period but, after that... anything goes. Dp doesn't mind - it's just nature after all.

Am completely at the suggestion that you text him to say you're ill!

He says unless the lady is willing to clean off her own mess, and give him kiss with a mouth and face full of "Dolmio" (like he does me with a face full of spunk) he'd think about it. He's not squeamish at all, just not his thing .

I'm in trouble sniggering at this and I'm not even a regular.

clashcity I think it's fairly de rigeuer on mn, but not so much the full dolmio

OP one idea is you could take a dark coloured towel with you to the restaurant, then when he asks you why you're carrying it, there's your opening

Beast Exactly. Lol....

Multi (Maisie's eyeball dropped and rolling down the stairs...) ....

I stand by that 'mystery girl' thing. (Maisies starts to bellydance...)