January 2011
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BUST Magazine: Surviving the Tampocalypse →
Just remember, you heard it on Period Tumblr FIRST.
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Yesterday a UPS driver got mad at me at a 4-way stop and I cried because it hurt my feelings, and then I thought of you.
xo
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my favoritest of all my favorite things about using a menstrual cup is that i can still get really, really wet with it in and have awesome sexy-times, no lube required.
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my favoritest of all my favorite things about using a menstrual cup is that i can still get really, really wet with it in and have awesome sexy-times, no lube required.
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re: free bleeding
so, a long time ago when i was eighteen, i realized i liked girls when i met this amazing little punk kid person and instantly had this huge crush. anyway one of the things i was really into, although it surprised me to be into it, was that this person did not use any period products and just kind of bled into his boxer briefs and camo shorts. it is interesting to note that much later, after we...
re: free bleeding
so, a long time ago when i was eighteen, i realized i liked girls when i met this amazing little punk kid person and instantly had this huge crush. anyway one of the things i was really into, although it surprised me to be into it, was that this person did not use any period products and just kind of bled into his boxer briefs and camo shorts. it is interesting to note that much later, after we...
Red Light Politics: Controversial ideas: Free... →
redlightpolitics:
I just finished reading a post at All About my Vagina about a topic I have rarely (if ever) seen mentioned, at least in mainstream media: free bleeding.
Now, I also know that most people will have a pretty visceral reaction to this idea muttering an “Eww” or two. But is it really? Or is it a byproduct of the centuries of indoctrination we have had about the impurity of...
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when I started
My gender identity as a child was mostly confused. I wanted people to call me James. My dad explained periods to me when I was 10. I listened to him like it was another dad science lesson and never really felt like it was something that would actually happen to me.
When I was 12 in the changing rooms after hockey practice Left Defense asked the room at large if anyone there hadn’t started...
i just wanted to second the spit-as-stain-remover suggestion! my mom used to quilt a lot and she always used spit to get the blood out when she accidentally pricked her finger. i’ve actually had success with larger stains, as well.
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[does this method work if the stain has had some time to set? i feel like this is the craziest advice and i kind of love it.]
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really serious about wanting my own menstrual hut
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I just got my period for the first time in six months WHILE LOOKING AT PERIOD TUMBLR DOT TUMBLR DOT COM. For real.
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I just got my period for the first time in six months WHILE LOOKING AT PERIOD TUMBLR DOT TUMBLR DOT COM. For real.
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i just wanted to second the spit-as-stain-remover suggestion! my mom used to quilt a lot and she always used spit to get the blood out when she accidentally pricked her finger. i’ve actually had success with larger stains, as well.
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[does this method work if the stain has had some time to set? i feel like this is the craziest advice and i kind of love it.]
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Would like to give a shout out to Mother Nature for making me a few days late this month, cause if the bleed had started when it was supposed to it would have ruined the 3 days I spend in bed with this gorgeous girl. And that would have just been awkward. So big ups to Mother Nature!
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hello bleeding humans
i have a doctorfriend ladyperson who’s in the process of advising a couple of you who’ve submitted stories of irregular / woeful periods. i’ll publish those submissions when i have her two cents, yeah? hope that’s ok.
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another option for removing stains
spit, preferably the saliva of the person who used to be toting the blood around. Something about enzymes.
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A few months ago my car broke down on the highway, I managed to push it off the road and park it on the front verge of a Primary School. It was right about lunchtime and all the kids were out the front playing. As I waited for the towtruck I could feel that I was leaking through my tampon. All I had was some tissues which would’ve done but then I might’ve looked like a giant perv with...
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I am also a tampon-virgin and I don’t care if i can’t swim during my period. Shout out to all the tampon-virgins out there :D
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I am also a tampon-virgin and I don’t care if i can’t swim during my period. Shout out to all the tampon-virgins out there :D
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rgr-pop asked: In case no one has mentioned: cold water! Always! Hot water + proteins = cooking, which just sets the stains into stuff forever.
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at some point as a kid i went to camp for a week. cabins! the woods! crafts, archery and girls!
one morning, after a stereotypical “camp night” of ghost stories, 5/6 of the girls in the cabin woke up to find 1/6 of the girls missing and blood EVERYWHERE; all over her bed, on the floor, on the door handle. we were ordered off to breakfast and told it wasn’t a big deal even though...
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when I started
My gender identity as a child was mostly confused. I wanted people to call me James. My dad explained periods to me when I was 10. I listened to him like it was another dad science lesson and never really felt like it was something that would actually happen to me.
When I was 12 in the changing rooms after hockey practice Left Defense asked the room at large if anyone there hadn’t started...
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Would like to give a shout out to Mother Nature for making me a few days late this month, cause if the bleed had started when it was supposed to it would have ruined the 3 days I spend in bed with this gorgeous girl. And that would have just been awkward. So big ups to Mother Nature!
submitted by that-kid-erin
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another option for removing stains
spit, preferably the saliva of the person who used to be toting the blood around. Something about enzymes.
submitted by shoopboombop
this short section rom Zoe Heller's The Believers
Two years ago, Mike had persuaded Karla to see a gynecologist about her incapacitating menstrual pain. Karla had suffered unusually heavy and painful periods since late adolescence, but until Mike had begun nagging, it had never occurred to her to seek medical help. She had simply accepted that it was her lot in life to spend five days of every month in mute agony, medicating herself with handfuls...
this short section rom Zoe Heller's The Believers
Two years ago, Mike had persuaded Karla to see a gynecologist about her incapacitating menstrual pain. Karla had suffered unusually heavy and painful periods since late adolescence, but until Mike had begun nagging, it had never occurred to her to seek medical help. She had simply accepted that it was her lot in life to spend five days of every month in mute agony, medicating herself with handfuls...
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A few months ago my car broke down on the highway, I managed to push it off the road and park it on the front verge of a Primary School. It was right about lunchtime and all the kids were out the front playing. As I waited for the towtruck I could feel that I was leaking through my tampon. All I had was some tissues which would’ve done but then I might’ve looked like a giant perv with...
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TAMPONS
Once I saw a little boy running down the “feminine product” aisle yelling TAMPONS! TAAMPOOONS!!!
It made my life.
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just having some coffee, blocking comments from...
if there’s one place where i definitely don’t have the patience for your ignorance, it’s period tumblr dot tumblr dot com. especially not this week.
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rabblevolunteer asked: Just an FYI: Hydrogen peroxide gets blood out of things like nothing else. I actually had a vet recommend to me and it works like a charm.
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Where I've bled
I spent a week in the woods at a poetry seminar for teens. Woke up at 6 am on the first day with my panties, pajama pants, and the WHITE sheets in the cabin absolutely covered in blood. I showered scrubbed my panties and pajamas, but I just kind of bundled the sheet up in the corner of the room and used the regular sheet instead of the fitted one to sleep on the rest of the week. I didn’t...
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slut or not?
i just saw the post regarding someone asking if she’s a “slut” if her tampon falls out.
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY NOT A SLUT!
every woman has a different sized vagina. some are long, some are deep, some are short, some are narrow and some are wide set. i say this now, if your tampon falls out it is because it is not the right size for your vagina. if you have a wide set vagina and...
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what if the second rule of period club was turn...
or is that just me?
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slut or not?
i just saw the post regarding someone asking if she’s a “slut” if her tampon falls out.
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY NOT A SLUT!
every woman has a different sized vagina. some are long, some are deep, some are short, some are narrow and some are wide set. i say this now, if your tampon falls out it is because it is not the right size for your vagina. if you have a wide set vagina and...
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A Bloody Tail
There was this one day when our toilet was acting dysfunctional, so instead of flushing my tampon I was informed I had to toss it in the trash can. Well long story short, my dog Belle ended up with my used tampon in her mouth. When she waltzed into the living room my entire family thought it was a rat (the string looked like a tail). After a long chase, my dad pulled the “rat” out of...
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does it mean i am slutty if my tampon falls out? how about tampax make a tampon for the social girls out there?
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Where I've bled
I spent a week in the woods at a poetry seminar for teens. Woke up at 6 am on the first day with my panties, pajama pants, and the WHITE sheets in the cabin absolutely covered in blood. I showered scrubbed my panties and pajamas, but I just kind of bundled the sheet up in the corner of the room and used the regular sheet instead of the fitted one to sleep on the rest of the week. I didn’t...
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does it mean i am slutty if my tampon falls out? how about tampax make a tampon for the social girls out there?
submitted by stacydoesitbetter
cunthulhu asked: I have decided i'm getting a Diva cup, so i'm pretty excited about that. I do need to wear pads overnight though, so I was wondering what you ladies think about reuseable pads? I saw some on etsy I thought were okay, but i'm still kind of grossed out. What to dooo?
rabblevolunteer asked: Just an FYI: Hydrogen peroxide gets blood out of things like nothing else. I actually had a vet recommend to me and it works like a charm.
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Where Someone Else Bled...
I was working at summer camp a few years back. Some of the counselors and I went to Wal Mart (as most camp counselors do.) Well, we get out of the car, one of the girls swears and asks if anyone has a sweatshirt. I leaned back in to grab mine and looked at my passenger seat. It looked like something had been murdered on it. However, that wasn’t the most awkward part. Later, when getting back...