I’ve made plans to have a weekend away with One Ball, featuring endless sex, lots of snacks, and a few drinks, but mostly a truckload of kinky fuckery – but of course Mother Nature has appeared and decided otherwise. What do you think about sex on your period, folks?
Because that’s my damn question of the day.
Sex on Your Period: A Few Thoughts
I’ve been a bit of an emotional wreck, to be fair, so I should’ve expected the flash of red in my underwear this morning. That didn’t stop me from bawling my eyes out when I saw it, though.
You see, I’m not the biggest fan of sex on your period. I put it into the same bracket as slightly stubbly legs or unwaxed bikini lines: something reserved for long-term lovers, not new romances or one-night stands. And, to be honest, I find it a little gross.
I dislike the messiness of period sex. Included in that disliking is the preparation – having to put a dark towel down, etc. For me, it ruins the spontaneity of sex. I know it’s only for a few days each month, but still, it ruins it for me. Also included is the aftermath of period sex – the whole cleaning up claret business.
Also (because I’m nowhere near done yet,) how am I supposed to feel sexy when I’m carrying around a bowling ball in my uterus? That’s exactly what my period feels like. Then there are the weird electric shot sensations in the butt, cramps that are akin to an ancient form of interrogation torture, feeling like my own bones don’t belong to me, back ache, leg ache, hip ache, headache, eyeball ache…
And the temperament of an angry cobra…
Or a depressed toddler.
You can never predict what’s coming next. Neither can I.
For that reason, I’m on the pill. It allows me to keep track of my period, and it also helps me to delay or stop it whenever I need to – like today. I popped two of the little pills today. (Not recommended.) I’ll take the damn pill every day until my period stops, hopefully in time for me to have lots of bleeding-free sex with OB.
Speaking of which, I don’t know OB’s opinions on period sex. What if I turn up, still bleeding, and he’s like, “Ew, get away from me, monster.” I’d then have to spend the rest of the weekend with a man that finds me disgusting and I’d have travelled all that way for no sex – for NOTHING.
Drama.
The Tampon Issue
Technically, it’s a sanitary product issue, but I’m a tampon user, so for now it’s the tampon issue – and I know that I’m digressing, but I’m on a roll.
Why the fuck are condoms free at family planning places, but I’ve still gotta pay for my tampons?
How come I’ve gotta go on the pill? Where isn’t there a pill for men?
Why is it my responsibility to not get pregnant when there are definitely two of us (or more) involved?
Women have got IUDs, implants, pills, injections, yadda yadda yadda… what have men got? Condoms and spermicide? That’s it?
I am *angry*.
(Can you tell?)
Wouldn’t it be great if you could sign up to a service that sent a monthly text message rather than periods? Like, on the last day of high school, you’re given a form that says:
Do you want periods or a text message?
Tick periods and you’ll experience fists clenching your insides for one week out of four, all the while dispelling all sorts of clumpy grossness from your insides, until the day you dry up and can no longer get pregnant…
Fuck it, give me the text messages. PLEASE.
Back to the topic in hand, what are your views on sex on your period? Is it a yay or a nay? Or do you simply not give a shit either way?
I’d love to know, so leave your comments below. Don’t forget to vote in the poll, too! (Thanks in advance, obviously.)
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Ick, awful isn’t it?! There was a period of a good couple of months earlier this year where I bled the whole time (damn my fucked up body!) so I learnt to just get over it, sex is sex, as long as his face is nowhere near my river of red I can forget that it’s happening! D always seemed to have white sheets though, so gross and embarrassing
So gross! I generally have pink or black sheets so its never a real drama for me on that front. It still pisses me off though. Bloody Mother Nature…. Literally 🙂
Love the idea that you could a get a tweet once a month to let you know you’re not pregnant! Please, technology, work that one out….
That would be epic eh?
*New Tweet from @MotherNature Stop panicking. You are not preggers*
I’m about to leave on a fuckfest trip as well and there will be SERIOUS rage if Mother Nature attempts to ruin this for me! Continue on with the double pill!!
Oooooh I shall keep my fingers well and truly crossed that this doesn’t happen to you as well!!!! Double pill has began…. will commence until the red stuff has stopped. I have two days to stop it. Bring it Mother Nature! 🙂
I admit I never read past where you wrote how you wouldn’t be getting laid because you have your period. I have never thought that was a block, and I’ve been blessed with lovers who were never squicked out by a woman’s monthly flow. If he’s not willing to get his “Red Wings”, or afraid of getting some blood on his willy, he’s definitely not worth the lay anyway.
I loved this comment! I guess that’s very, very true…. What about me though? It grosses me out! Lol!
Well, ask yourself why that is? Why do you think of your own blood as “gross”?
You’re not. It’s not. It’s just blood.
It’s washable; sheets, towels, even you are washable! =) The clean up can be tossing some thing in the wash, and continuing the sexy time in the shower as you soap each other up and rinse off.
And, for more thought provoking reading, here is my personal post inspired by reading yours!
http://erogenousblog.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/no-down-low-with-the-flow/
Haha I know all this. I’m not very good with mess…. I detest the monthlies!
I feel your pain. Having waited literally 6 months to sleep with someone, and having only a week to be with him as I am leaving town for good this weekend, I was hoping to spend the entire week naked in his bed, on his floor etc etc. But alas, just been visited by Mother Nature. At least I got a good 2 days out of it, was so worth the 6 month wait…But who knows, maybe he is into this sort of thing, perhaps I can “subtly” bring it up in conversation, preferably when I am already naked…
I am totally, always down with sex on my period. I have no problem. This probably comes from being a squirter though- let’s just say I’m used to very, very messy sex.
I can be a squirter with the right guy & the right technique. I have a tendency to gush when I cum…. I guess I’m already used to messy sex! Maybe I just need to get over the sex on the period thing? Man up girl! Haha! 🙂
Totally!! Embrace the grossness of sex haha!
LOL Here where I live (in the US) condoms are pretty darn expensive, unless you get them at the health dept for free. I always thought they shouldn’t charge for them. In any case, sorry about your period. That sucks. Still, I have had sex with the Professor while on my period and it was actually kinda hot. It was a surprise and I started bleeding DURING the sex but that was okay and we just threw down a towel. Since then we have also had sex when we knew I was gonna be on it. In some ways it seems a little gross, but it almost is more intimate because that is a time when you normally WOULDN’T. So for that reason it was sexy and we even have a video of us having sex when I was on my period (not that you can see that) and I came a lot.
Yeah condoms can be expensive here, but you can get them anywhere these days – the local Doctor’s and family planning clinics give them away for free, and you can even buy them in the pound store!
I’m not completely adverse to sex on my period, but it’s a long-term relationship thing for me. I must admit that the times I have done it, it feels much better – more intimate perhaps? And more lubricated haha! I guess we all have our little things – I can’t let just any guy go down on me, and I can’t let just any guy have sex with me when I’m on my period. Thankfully, Mother Nature kept her distance 😉
I never knew that a girl taking birth controll pills will stop her period? This is news to me. But I’m a guy, so what the hell do I know.
I personally have sex with my GF of 3 years on her period. It’s more of the girl’s comfort or discomfort in having sex on period. I heard that most women find it nasty. Most men do also.
I live in a country where free condoms are everywhere, thankfully. I think the reason I freak out a bit when I am on my period is that having someone go down on me is possibly the single most awesome thing in the universe. I have no problem having sex on my period, but I don’t think I would feel comfortable with someone going down on me at that time of the month, even if they wanted to. And without that, sex for me is just not quite as enjoyable.