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One teacher allowed girls bathroom breaks without a question but not guys and we thought it was bc girls can't hold pee in since they don't have dicks.
If you can't tell sex ed doesnt exist in this part of the world
Hell that's not even sex ed but anatomy ig
Wait, whatβs the reason?
Every so often, girls need to release evil demons within them or else they'll be consumed by hellfire. Everybody knows this.
This explains everything. The reason I never saw her after the first date is because she was consumed by evil demons βΉοΈ
Period flow can happen without warning, and even if there is a warning, it's not usually something that girls are comfortable enough with to want to announce the reason in front of a classroom.
It's not like you want to announce diarrhea either
I donβt get diarrhea every 4 weeks. Do you?
No it's more frequent than that
Maybe lay off the Arby's for a while.
What's Arby
Oh, a low-tier fast food restaurant in the US. That joke will be funny to some people.
I liked your comment myself, but I wished period was more normalized and not seeing as something "disgusting" or "embarrassing"
Eh depends on how explosive it is, those nearby may deserve a warning
Menstruation.
Then why is it called menstruation and not womenstruation? (β―Β°β‘Β°οΌβ―οΈ΅ β»ββ»
Oh that! I thought it was still something about pee I donβt know because of the context π
New theory dropped: pee is stored in the dick
Believed this until I was like 16 and so did everyone else in our school.
A girl did anal and got pregnant and since it was anal that got her pregnant she was gonna poop out the baby. Funny thing is I was part of the group conversation that started this rumor and STILL we all believed it.
since it was anal that got her pregnant
Umm...you might still be missing some sex ed info.
I had a goth girlfriend who unexpectedly turned into a conservative Christian and wanted to stay a virgin. I was a horny teen and was βwell what about analβ and she said oh no, she could get pregnant because of seepage
I love this
It is technically possible if semen gets out/around the anus and then gets accidentally wiped towards the labia.
Lol thats from a thought from the perspective of teen me
I think millions of children will now have this misconception thanks to
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Until about halfway into my teens, no one told me that periods were painful, or involved behavior altering hormone releases. I thought my sisters were becoming moody & rude for no reason. I was generally aware of the concept of periods, but not of the broader effects. I feel I might have been much more sympathetic had I known.
Well, it's a spectrum. I worked with a woman that was spending the whole time in our office laying on the floor during her period because how painful it was. But I'm also married with a woman that doesn't have any symptoms at all and when asked about she said the only annoyance was having tampons ready.
I had to explain to a girl that no, we should not have sex while you have a UTI. She was in her mid 30's.
Sometimes you're just in the zone man. Consequences be damned (pls dont do this this is not real advice)
Worked in an ED/still work as a paramedic occasionally.
You don't want to know how many times I had to explain this shit to a grown woman, sometimes 30y older than me.
Obviously itβs a bad idea but why? ELI5 lol
So if one partner has a UTI, the other partner could get the UTI (even asymptomatically) and they could keep reinfecting each other in a hilarious game of tag.
Or if one partner has multiple partner they could spread the UTI around, even if they are asymptomatic.
In addition to that, it can introduce bacteria, bodily fluids, etc to the infected area and make it worse.
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The hymen is not normally ripping at the "first time", but these myths come from brutal men that have no compassion and dont know how to make both people horny.
Breaking a hymen when you first have sex is indeed a myth, but so is the idea that sufficient arousal will prevent tearing every hymen.
Hymens come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and elasticities. They can tear from many things but most people with hymens are quite likely to experience minor tearing or bleeding the first time they have sex. That's especially true if the hymen is particularly large or thick and if you haven't torn it before the first time you had sex.
That's the last myth, even if breaking a hymen was a real thing required for sex, it doesn't say anything about virginity because many girls tear it in childhood and puberty from a variety of activities as innocuous as swimming.
https://flo.health/menstrual-cycle/health/period/what-is-hymen-and-how-it-changes
If you're on hormonal birth control, you don't need to have monthly bleeding cycles. The sugar pill part of most hormonal birth control pills, was added so as to not scare people when their bleeding disappeared.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/birth-control/in-depth/womens-health/art-20044044
I learned this so late....
Sometimes they recommend you go three months without a period. Apparently it can be healthier. And the body doesn't really know any better after you've got used to it.
Well .... TIL.
I'm a woman and didn't know we all grew breasts until I asked about my own.
Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina
Not necessarily true!
Yeah, I saw Kindergarten Cop too!
Up until maybe 1st grade I thought this kid was saying "va-china" and misquoted it as such
I think we had the basics covered early. Too early maybe. I remember holding a presentation in grade school about AIDS, but that was half made by my grandma and I barely understood what I was reading from my papers.
I think we had the basics covered early. Too early maybe.
I basically had my sex ed delayed a year or two from the other students because as a fourth grader I would mostly just tune out when the teacher started talking.
Let me just say here how much I appreciate the sex ed I got in school.
I'm talking life-size cross-section models of a human torso that you could take individual organs out of for closer inspection.
One thing we still didn't learn much about is how wildly different periods can be for different people, I very much appreciated a friend explaining this to me.
I learned way too late about the fertility cycle of my female reproductive organs. What, I can feel my cervix, if I just reach into my vagina deep enough?! And oh, so during my fertile days, my vulva will get slippery, my cervix is soft like my earlobe, and my cervical mucus becomes stretchy like egg white?! Also, my body temperature rises?! And on the not-so-fertile days, my cervix is closed, feels harder (like the tip of my nose), and none or less mucus. That's wild, so much to learn about a body that I thought I knew!
(You can use these observations to contracept or to become pregnant, but if you do, please inform yourself about Natural Family Planning (NFP) or the sympto-thermal method. It takes a routine and some experience for it to be reliable, but once you get the hang of it, it is awesome!)