I was completely terrified about the idea of getting my period. I knew what it was, I knew it wasn't a bad thing, but I was still petrified of the whole lot. I remember when I first learnt about it just being terrified that I'd start at Junior school, then terrified that I'd start in first year then the holidays and so on. I hated everything about puberty, I hated it when I grew or got hair under my arms and in my pubic area. I used to try and squish my breasts back in because I wanted them to just go away.
I was really late at the whole business and I didn't start my period until I was 15. I went to an all girls school and it was really quite open about menstruation and quite positive and I knew that most of my friends had already started. It was the first day back at school and I went to the loo and noticed brownish gunk on my knickers and rolled up some loo role and ignored it for a bit. I hated walking around with blood between my legs, so got some tampons from the machine (we had one at school, three cheers for my lovely progressive school, hip hip...) and used one of them after lunch. I didn't get it in far enough and it really hurt but there wasn't blood all over the place so I was much happier. The next one I used went in fine and I used tampons until six months ago when I bought a diva cup.
Once I actually had my period I got much less freaked about the whole thing and resigned myself to all the puberty stuff. I was to embarrassed to tell my Mum for days and days when I did she unhelpfully bought me pads (as she didn't like tampons) so I bought myself tampons all the time I lived at home. I got a divacup for environmental reasons; I really don't like the idea of all that cotton going in a landfill. It made me feel like I was saving the planet every time I had a period so that's nice!
I'm gay, and my girlfriend and I have sex when either of us our on our period she is quite shy about these things (I was before they started, but now I'm really relaxed and open about the whole deal) and it was never an issue. Our periods don't match up so we wouldn't be able to have sex for two weeks in a row. So not a good option!
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Date: 2006-04-21 08:33 am (UTC)I was really late at the whole business and I didn't start my period until I was 15. I went to an all girls school and it was really quite open about menstruation and quite positive and I knew that most of my friends had already started. It was the first day back at school and I went to the loo and noticed brownish gunk on my knickers and rolled up some loo role and ignored it for a bit. I hated walking around with blood between my legs, so got some tampons from the machine (we had one at school, three cheers for my lovely progressive school, hip hip...) and used one of them after lunch. I didn't get it in far enough and it really hurt but there wasn't blood all over the place so I was much happier. The next one I used went in fine and I used tampons until six months ago when I bought a diva cup.
Once I actually had my period I got much less freaked about the whole thing and resigned myself to all the puberty stuff. I was to embarrassed to tell my Mum for days and days when I did she unhelpfully bought me pads (as she didn't like tampons) so I bought myself tampons all the time I lived at home. I got a divacup for environmental reasons; I really don't like the idea of all that cotton going in a landfill. It made me feel like I was saving the planet every time I had a period so that's nice!
I'm gay, and my girlfriend and I have sex when either of us our on our period she is quite shy about these things (I was before they started, but now I'm really relaxed and open about the whole deal) and it was never an issue. Our periods don't match up so we wouldn't be able to have sex for two weeks in a row. So not a good option!
I pronounce it men-stru-a-tion