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Period Advice

"One of these days you're going to start bleeding and here's a book on the subject, go read it."

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The first words out of my moms mouth about mentrual cycles. I was 10, and before that very day I thought all boys n girls were anatomically the same. RUDE AWAKENING...I read the book and when i asked mom questions, shewas very vague and never uttered the word sex plus threatened to disown me if i got pregnant before i was married. No wonder I cried in horror at the thought of losing blood. She had me thinking God punished girls who had sex by making them bleed...all in that one single sentence. Remember it was 1979 and i was 11. Sex, pregnancy, condoms, etc concerning sex education was just not discussed by families or in school programs much. Heck, i had my period before the school nurse showed THE MOVIE. Back then we were in 7th/8th grade before the movie was shown...OMG how times have changed. Now they show THE MOVIE in 4th/5th grade.

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  • electric supernova
    May 24, 2007

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    Oh, parents. I swear I heard that exact sentence from my mum as well. Quite an interesting story to go along with it. Best of luck to you!


  • Melodies
    March 3, 2007

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    Brings back memories...killin' me thinkin' of it!

    My mom was very shy about discussing the human body. We got a booklet at school. We did not have the movie or a talk or anything. Just a booklet. The booklet was very shy, too. It did not say anything right out and you had to try to figure out what in the heck they were talking about. I still remember just how the booklet looked. There was a page that discussed sanitary napkins vs. tampons. I had no idea what sanitary napkins were but since it said "napkins" I thought it was talking about table napkins. The illustration that came with the tampon sentence showed a girl with a hat on and there was a little bubble above her head that said, "What about tampons??" Hell, I thought her hat was a tampon.

    AND, it gets worse... I thought that feeling romantic about a boy could get you pregnant. Yes, just thinking about how cute a boy was, would do it.

    Oh, how did I ever survive my teen years? I had no idea what was happening to me when I started my period at age 12. My mom said it was natural for it to happen, but I had no idea what it was for. I wish we had the movie when I was a kid.


  • requiempoet gold member
    March 2, 2007

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    Aw. I didn't know about periods in 6th grade...(they showed the movie in 5th but I was out sick ) and I was too embarressed to ask my Mom, so I randomly got a really bad stomachache one day at school, I went to the bathroom and there was blood in my undies!!! I thought I was dying! I went home upset and I got earrings!!! crazy!


  • Disturbed Prodigy
    March 2, 2007

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    you see, i am happy i will had that talk, lol, this is a funny poem with a nice story behind it, keep it flowing and good luck in the contest