ON PERIODS because I tried to keep it, you know, as just a physical description of the bodily aspects and their realities but it's obvs. still gross:
Two pages late on the Dating thread... The thing about periods is that it's not mostly a bunch of "ugh I feel sick," you know? In fact I'd say it's really not like just being sick at all. I mean, well...
Not to be specifically gross but I guess the closest I could come to describing it would be... Imagine your body is full of a week's supply of discarded tissue, congealed blood, and mucus. Now imagine that for the next week it's going to be dribbling out in a steady trickle while the organ where it's being stored is cramping up like a squeezed balloon in your guts to push it all out, and that it
doesn't ever stop coming out, even when you're sleeping. The discharge gets on your junk, your crotch, your thighs, and legs, it clumps up in hard little scabby balls on your groin hair, it has an obvious smell (at least to you even if you're as clean as you can manage, which is still nervewracking) and gets in your nails and all over your fingers and hands when you wipe and it's hard to wash out... it may keep going while you shower and will DEFINITELY contaminate bathwater, and when you get out and have to dry off, it gets on the towel, the rug, your legs and crotch again so you're already dirty right after showering, etc. When you stand up or sit down it can be... unpleasant. You may feel it briefly gush and then physically slip out if you wear pads, which don't instantly absorb anything. When you sleep you can't wear a tampon even if you do during the day, and the blood might get all over your body and ruin your bedding and maybe even your mattress because it's flowing parallel to your pad and may miss it entirely. You also have to dispose of pounds of bloody, contaminated material, either tampons that get your hands all bloody and tend to make a big mess while being replaced, or pads that can slide out of place or stick to your hair and skin and hurt it while you wear them, plus as a bonus give you super-sensitive raw puffy rashes on your groin in just the right places that they're always sticking together and getting agitated by every movement, usually on the inside curves of your buttcheeks where it's sure to be most painful. If you haven't been taught to act out the loud-girl stereotype, you're also ashamed of the problem and feel you can't let anyone know, even if you need to run to the bathroom to take care of sanitation, or adjust your sanitary product to keep it from leaking all over your legs and pants. Compare it to saying, out loud, that you can't go to the board because you have a huge boner; it's just as involuntary and treated with just as little understanding and respect from other people generally, only this is also in a parallel universe where getting boners is considered unmanly and gross, while still being an unacceptable excuse for not standing up and running around. Sorry about that also, guys. I don't think people are understanding enough about how like, embarrassing and involuntary that is. At least our stuff is usually invisible to other people. As for periods, though, all that up there is still discluding other symptoms like fever, diarrhea or constipation in shifts, painful gas buildup that won't come out, etc. It can be even worse than all that, or you might be blessed with an ideal cycle on average, but that up there is the basics. You're basically pissing embarrassing, painful bloody tissue nonstop for 4-8 days, every single month, 400+ times throughout the average life before you hit menopause and have other problems to deal with to replace it.
tl;dr
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