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Ok so someone educate me about neo vaginas **Title edited by MNHQ at the OP's request**

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AssignedPuuurfectAtBirth · 04/01/2018 00:46

Because lot of people on twitter appear to think that women piss out of their vaginas.

So with that particular piece of 'advanced biology', what happens with a newly constructed vagina?

And er. maybe some will be disappointed with the plumbing?

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DuMondeB · 03/07/2019 22:56

Perhaps the ‘masculinisation’ that a woman experiences post menopause isn’t physical, but attitudinal?

Giving no fucks for the opinion of others has been culturally gendered masculine...

Unless you are Northern, probably, according to Meg-John.

KTara · 03/07/2019 22:59

Now caught up to rest of thread - wonderful posts especially from Barracker - what a lovely note to end the day on

Datun · 03/07/2019 23:04

I've never known any post-menopausal woman say she feels 'masculinised'

I've never heard of this either. It's not a thing. Unless it's someone who obsesses over female biology??

What masculinises? I can't think of anything. Women, right the way through, even very old women, look just like women!

Weird.

truthisarevolutionaryact · 03/07/2019 23:04

I wondered what this old thread was doing at the top of the board for much of the day - now I know Grin. What a lovely celebration of women and our sex this turned out to be.

TimeLady · 03/07/2019 23:07

Nah, I've been a bolshie female all my life. Grin I think our friend has seen the jellybaby chart and just because all females thicken up round the middle as we age, and tend to wear our hair shorter, that means we're morphing into GI Joe.

I've seen some tosh spouted on these threads from time to time and that word salad is up there with the daftest.

Datun · 03/07/2019 23:07

Perhaps the ‘masculinisation’ that a woman experiences post menopause isn’t physical, but attitudinal?

Oh yes. Definitely.

sakura184 · 03/07/2019 23:08

I also want to add about the fact that breastfeeding a baby after childbirth contracts the womb and prevents hemorrhage and the reason I want to mention it is because a lot of doctors still don't know about this or about how breastfeeding puts everything back in its place and helps shrink the womb down .
The afterpains when you breastfeed are just so incredibly powerful that you realize how connected your nipples, breasts and womb actually are. The stuck on silicon breasts that surgeons create are such a mockery of female anatomy

Barracker · 03/07/2019 23:10

I remembered another!

Ovulation pain, like a stitch, it alternated sides each period. I used to make a note in the calendar because the time from ovulation to period (14 days) was always much more predictable than period to ovulation, which varied for me from 7 to 10 days.

I always thought that was so cool, knowing which ovary had popped one out that month.

Does/did anyone else get that?

Datun · 03/07/2019 23:12

Ovulation pain, like a stitch,

Yes! Ovary ache we called it.

Datun · 03/07/2019 23:14

For me, the letdown reflex was a lip bitingly intense moment.

And, again for me, that wonderful empty boob feeling after my now suddenly perfectly delightful baby, had addressed my watermelons with gusto.

FermatsTheorem · 03/07/2019 23:14

Oh, I used to get that Barracker. Was brilliant, knowing what my body was up to even down to which ovary had released the egg this month. (And occasionally realising they'd both gone - usually separated by 2 or 3 days... eek, to think I could be the mum of non-identical twins...) I suspect I could have used natural contraception really effectively - 29 day cycle bang on the nose, always knew when I was ovulating.

And I do still vividly remember the afterpains while breast feeding (and that strange tingly shooting pain from the armpit down the outside of my breast that was the let-down reflex).

sakura184 · 03/07/2019 23:17

@Barracker

I did used to get that and I went for various tests to find out what was wrong and nobody had a clue, and not one medical professional suggested it might be my ovaries. Finally a friend suggested it and it was the first time I'd heard of it and she was completely right as I noticed after that that the pain did come on alternate sides. It strengthened my distain for the gynecological profession

Datun · 03/07/2019 23:19

I did used to get that and I went for various tests to find out what was wrong and nobody had a clue,

Same here. Before I knew what it was, my doctor said it was the 'guy ropes' pulling.

FleetsumNJetsum · 03/07/2019 23:20

I, too, had the ovulation pop Barracker, sometimes it really hurt!

Also remember the milk 'let down' when I heard a baby cry, even if it was not my baby.

ZebrasAreBras · 03/07/2019 23:23

Yes to ovulation pain too!

The greatest gift we could give young girls is to teach them more about their bodies, and how amazing they are. I'm 48 and I only saw that beautiful picture of the clitoris this year.

We need to halt the pornified objectification of women's bodies, and start teaching about how wonderful women's bodies are, about female sexuality, actual empowerment of women and girls, rather than the patriarchal view of women that porn and lapdancing is empowerment and that the female body exists for men's pleasure.

ZebrasAreBras · 03/07/2019 23:27

Sorry, went off on a late night feminist rant again Wink

lionheart · 03/07/2019 23:34

Thanks Rachel.

barelove · 03/07/2019 23:51

When my new baby had an eye infection I had such a strong instinct to squirt some of my milk into his eye that I did and his eye got better. I confessed to my midwife a few days later and she told me that before modern medicine, women's breast milk was always used to cure eye infections.

Our breast milk is sweet and greasy and amazing!

Backinthecloset123 · 03/07/2019 23:57

Well this post menopausal woman is still lucky enough to orgasm on average 5 times per go.
Just felt like throwing that in. GrinGrinGrinGrinGrin

RedTrek · 03/07/2019 23:58

The let down reflex is the strangest thing I've ever experienced, because nobody had told me anything about it. It's been almost 6 months since I completely weaned my second child and I can still imagine the sensation perfectly.

I was also mightily surprised to find out that my breasts worked as a unit rather than separately, so that milk came out of both nipples rather than just the one the baby was latched onto. I suppose this would be handy if you had twins! And I had no idea the milk would come out of so many holes rather than just one as I had naively imagined.

Before I did it, I imagined breastfeeding would be just like the baby sucking the milk out of a bag through a straw, which I suppose it is to a certain extent, but gosh aren't breasts incredible - there's so much more to it! I agree that girls should be told more about their bodies (boys too for that matter). Even if they never end up using or ever intend to use their breasts to nourish a baby, at the very least this stuff is interesting. Though it's undoubtedly one of those things you have to experience first hand to really 'get'.

Mamello · 04/07/2019 00:03

LucyAmethyst

If you are still here. My sister has DSD and i have seen the anguish that has often caused her so you have all my sympathy for suffering from one of these conditions. But that does not mean you can claim to be something you are not, whatever adjustments you have made to yourself. My sister would tell you that she only found peace by finally accepting herself as she is, and being proud to be different. I hope the same for you.

Outofexcuses · 04/07/2019 00:16

The weirdest thing for me was how labour ended. Those overwhelming contractions that thunder through your body, totally out of your control, going on and on, then finally the baby arrives, and they carry on again, then the placenta comes out - and bang! They stop. Just. Like. That. How does that happen?

Zeugma · 04/07/2019 05:25

Ovulation pain, like a stitch

The German language coined a word for it - 'Mittelschmerz', 'middle-pain', because it comes roughly in the middle of your cycle.

SophoclesTheFox · 04/07/2019 07:07

Masculinising during menopause?

Deary me. I did click on the report button because I was so incensed, but deleted my report, because this utter bilge is always better left to stand.

I’ll care about your difficult journey, Lucy, the very second that you give the tiniest shit about mine through infertility, endometriosis, adenomyosis, multiple gynae surgeries, oophrectomy, radical hysterectomy, premature menopause and the cavalcade of related, typically female auto immune dysfunction that followed. All due to being female.

If you ever do find that empathy, please do feel free to check back in and tell me again how we’re physiologically indistinguishable.

Cookieflavoredbiscuit · 04/07/2019 07:49

Near the beginning of both of my pregnancies, I had a brief, but very distinct sensation in my womb, (just once each time) which I’ve always thought of as being like a bumblebee buzzing in there. I’ve always had very irregular periods, so both times it was before I’d suspected... The first time, I wondered what it was, but the second time I immediately thought I must be pregnant again.