Wow, reading up from where I last posted, I am surprised to see so many people using such strong language as "disgusting" and "gross" "ick" "yuck" "EW" etc etc...

I mean, what kind of message are you sending yourself every month? "You are a disgusting, gross female that should never be touched during your menstrual cycle!"?

:/ I realize these are all personal opinions, but wow! less

Wow. I wonder what determines who does this? And why? (Or why not?) My Man and I don't even think about it. I did the math earlier in this thread. It's like 84 days a year without sex if we didn't have sex during my period. THAT isn't happening. Even going 5 to 7 days a month without sex isn't happening. We fuck like rabbits no matter what time of the month it is.

He has no problem going down when I have my period. He talked ME into it decades ago, "I don't care. It's just some fluid. I want to make you come. Just let me try it." I finally consented, and it's amazing. Like most women, I get really horny during my period. (It has a lot to do with pelvic congestion during menstruation, it helps the clitoris fill with blood easier and causes many women to become very aroused. Not to mention the swollen uterus from menstruation is eased by orgasm. I can't see NOT doing it during my period. With the exception of when I had endometriosis, then if we got to it right as it started, it helped the pain.)

I mean, I guess if people really don't like it and can go a week every month with NO sex (because in our house there is NO SEX without oral. None.) And up to two and a half months a year counting all the days you are having your period.

We have sex very frequently, and neither one of us could go that long without it. Three days is a "drought" for us. Uh uh. Sex continues at it's regular pace, whether there is a little menstrual blood or not.

Taking a really warm bath before sex can help. It can help the blood stop for about an hour or so.

It's just some blood. If it gets really messy we just get in the shower after.

We have a dedicated maroon King Size sheet, and maroon and red towels, that we lay on the bed over the regular sheets. We lie on those and then those go in the wash. It isn't a big deal. Most of the fluid during menstruation is mucous and regular vaginal secretions anyway. The blood is less than most people think there is.

*shrug* For us, going without is much worse. It doesn't bother either of us. less

I agree with you, tigerkate.

Some people don't do it, and that's fine. It's their decision for what they do. But, to use words like "gross" and "disgusting" to describe sexual practices that other people obviously enjoy and have openly admitted to liking is rather rude.

I would hate to think some who are new to the site might think that this dissing of other people's sexual practices is the norm on Eden, and most of us know it isn't. Eden is usually a very tolerant place, and I think most posters realize this and refrain from using words like "gross" and "EW!" when other people have already said they engage in said practices. (Sexual or otherwise.)

I wouldn't want to scare away any new people with such talk. People might be afraid to be open and honest.

Not to even mention adding the message that the normalcy and absolute femininity of menstruation is somehow unnatural and "disgusting." Isn't that what we don't want for ourselves, and our daughters? less

I'm sure there are, inbarati. Yet the unpleasant comments keep coming. I mean, if one doesn't like it, that's cool. Just say, "It isn't what I like." But the comments with all the negative language and words like "disgusting" and "nasty" may make those who feel menstrual sex is just fine feel disrespected.

Like I have said, there are a few sexual practices My Man and I don't engage in (very few) but I simply don't do them, say they aren't for me. I don't put down people who do find them pleasant and engage in them.

Sex is a very personal thing, and everyone has a right to their opinion, but there's no reason to be insulting to those who like it.

Thank you for being supportive.

*sigh* less

Being a lesbian woman I see this question SO many times and my answer is of course not. For one that is just disgusting and I will never understand how people to do but to each his own. There's a line to my freakiness and that is where it stops. There's no way that I will ever have oral sex while she's on her period and I know she wouldn't do it to me either. Even if she did, which she doesn't, I wouldn't let her because during that time I don't even want to be touched or looked at. less