MENARCHE...a big change for females

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I was looking at a site about womens health [somewhere on "scarleteen.com"]and so on and i started thinking about when i got my first period.

I got my first period [menarche] in April of '93...April 18th i think.

i was about 11 going on twelve, ain't that some shit?

i was at my old apartment in the Bronx playing some bugs bunny game on super nintendo [which i sstill have by the way] with [my cousin] eboni. i wanted to finish the game, but i had to pee, so i got up to use the bathroom.

i went in "Woo-Woo" [nickname] and walked out a new "woman".
i used the toilet and saw a lil blood, i got scared. i didn't want to tell anyone because i thought something was wrong, but then i realized...i got my period.
i think i told eboni when i got back in my room and she told her mother, who is also like a mommy to me. my mother found out from eboni's mommy and all i can remember is me crying and them huging me and saying, "Awww, woo-woo is a woman now!

my mother was like, "you see that poster of TLC and Janet on your wall? They go through it too."

i didn't care, i was bleeding! i definately didn't want my daddy to know about that! so i think i made sure that it stayed between all of us.

damn, i've had my period for 8 years and 6 months! i think my mother said she got hers when she was lke 9-10 years old.

You MUST'VE Heard This One Before.

[circebe.livejournal.com]

The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure. The clitoris is simply a bundle of nerves: 8,000 nerve fibers, to be precise. That's a higher concentration of nerve fibers than is found anywhere else in the body, including the fingertips, lips, and tongue, and it is twice...twice...twice the number in the penis. Who needs a handgun when you've got a semiautomatic.--from Woman: An Intimate Geography, by Natalie Angier.

(Yeah, I'm grateful for this. *smirks*)