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High school biology doesn't teach guys how to understand women. But it at least gives them an idea of how their bodies work. Pass that and you won't infuriate your girlfriend by telling her to "keep it in" when she asks you to buy her some tampons. Recently, Twitter user @brownandbella asked women to share the most ridiculous things they've heard men say about "sex, reproductive health, menstruation, etc" and BOY did they deliver! As of this article, the thread already has nearly 20K upvotes and over 3.5K comments, many of which will make you wonder if men are really that stupid or are they just being dicks. Maybe the first, maybe the latter, maybe a bit of both.

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Almost a quarter of men have admitted that they have "no idea" what a pelvic floor is or what it is supposed to do. About 1 in 20 believe it's just another name for your pelvis and some even think it's a dance move. A new study has confirmed that men really are clueless when it comes to their female partner's body.

The study, released by pelvic floor experts INNOVO, found that nearly 4 in 10 men don't feel comfortable talking to women about it, too. 4 in 10 men also admit they have no understanding about the health issues their wife or girlfriend faces and are stumped when it comes to the length of their period.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There should be mandatory sex-ed for everyone, that we wouldn't be oblivious for specifics of each gender

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The same magical 4 in 10 men don't feel comfortable talking to women about intimate health issues and as a result, more than a third try to avoid all conversations with their partner about subjects such as periods, intimate screening tests, and even sex.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Damn monthly subscriptions. Never can stop them. I hear you can pause them for 9 months, but it is SO not worth it.

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"Intimate health issues can be a difficult subject for many to discuss," Jane Wake, women's health and fitness expert, said. "'It may be funny to think men have no idea what a pelvic floor is or does, but it's a subject which needs to be taken seriously – especially as men also have a pelvic floor and can suffer the same problems as women."

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Koalamonster
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Either he has a very small penis or thinks tampons are far bigger than they are. Either way.... wow.

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Hans
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Besides...what kind of intrusiveness is it if a girl old enough to use tampons is stopped from doing so by a parent?

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Val
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's so incredibly cringy that people sexualize the use of tampons.

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Agnes Jekyll
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's a sick father. Why is he thinking about his daughter's vagina?

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Alex Grosdanofski
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds like more religious extremism to me on the part of her pathetic father.

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Randy Dhuyvetter
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Walking around with a penis between your legs"... Does dad even know how sex works?

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StelleyPootz
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was unfortunately told the same thing by my own mother. She thought masturbation would "make me gay", and I was punished and humiliated by the family discussing "catching me". I cut her out of my life.

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Lynne Thom
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My parents were both the same way. I had to drive two counties over to buy my tampons. My friends and I called the pad contraptions Bible Belts.

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Koni Royval
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The women in Bible time would have LOVED to have anything near to the pads we have available. What they went through--yuck.

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Susan Gardner
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My father has 5 daughters and never said a word to us about any of this. He just tried to steer clear lol

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My parents also believed that I would lose my virginity by wearing a tampon xD

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't worry, my mom also thought that tampons "would take my virginity". Not only a dad problem.

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Steve Cruz
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Landover Baptist Church" is a fictitious online spoof (that many Christians believe is real). Mrs. Betty Bowers (America's Best Christian) writes some of the most bitingly funny articles and tweets. One of her most memorable articles is "Tampons: Satan's Cotton Fingers."

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Rosie Hamilton
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Satan's Cotton Fingers!! Hahahah! Sounds hilarious. I'll have a look for that!

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Maria Rohlen
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Virginity is a myth invented by men to control women sexuality ...

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Anna Repp
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mom refused to give me a tampon when at 14 I had a very important sports qualification event at school. I forget what it was, but something like making the short list for the varsity team... I bled heavily so pads were not an option, but no matter how much I begged, she refused to give me one of her tampons and never explained why. I missed the event, never made it on the team, never got an explanation from mom and only years later I realized she was afraid I would "lose my virginity" but was too scared to talk about it to me. Granted, I was born in the Soviet Union and the year was 1991, but still!

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Martha Meyer
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is so sad, intrusive and upsetting. Not just the sheer stupidity but the dad feeling ge gad any right to dictate his daughter's choice in monthly hygiene. And just WERE was her mom in that whole story?!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is true. It’s how me and my gf decided to lose our virginity together. Tampons inside both of us. It was magical

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Jessany Trotter
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Time to take control over your body in every aspect. It’s YOUR body NOT his!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

From this piece of advice, I would say the father has some serious issues about sex in general and his daughter's supposed sex life in particular! "Walking around with a penis between my legs" indeed! Daddy does not say "masturbate", but you understand that's what he is thinking. I suspect the man is an Evangelical Christian or something of the kind, and sex education for him means abstinence before marriage and nothing else. In short, this is not some advice a concerned single father might give to his daughter, it's a MORAL ISSUE for him: his daughter should remain an innocent virgin.

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Koni Royval
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wonder just why dad knew? Mine never did.If he has asked I would have ignored him.

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Karen Bird
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My dad didn't get involved in my periods by dictating what I should use. That's just weird!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am 50,when I was a teenage in the 80's,the whole "tampons take your virginity" c**p was a very common things said to girls by their parents(mainly mothers) ,as was "no man will want you ,if you're not a virgin".While most of our parents tried (usually unsuccessfully) to stop us having sex with our teenage boyfriends ,many of the girls I went to school with ,who were from conserative/christian or "new Australian" backgrounds(as they were known then) were married off as early as possible(engaged at 15,married by 16/17/18) for the sole purpose of avoiding the "Shame" of teen pregnacy! Things were thankfully very different by the time I and the man who had been my teenage boyfriend had our 3 daughters(and one son).

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Uhm, wow. And here my wife never used them until she got with me and I recommended it due to some of the issues she was having. Cotton is not a penis....and would not feel nor act the same way.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am so happy I was blessed with a father that would buy me chocolate and not bother me about what kind of sanitary products I used.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The problem is men like that father, ignorant and controlling, end up trying to control the women's bodies despite the lack of knowledge and common sense

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If it was her mom that told her that, I would be wayy more conserned. But, still...

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

😲😲😲!I don't care that he's your father, it's not up to him. But, I guess his own perverted ideas have caused those ideas.

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Lorlie Ann
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow... There are no words for the stupidity of a grown man saying this to his Daughter.... Just WOW

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Marilyn Bojanowski
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You walk around with a penis between your legs all the time and you don’t hear me complaining 🤷‍♀️

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Another one who we should find and slap their mother.

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Louise Brigance
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh God...didn't your Mom ever clue him in? He probably wouldn't listen to her either!

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Kim Lorton
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Omg... how degrading for you as a young woman! I am so sorry you had to deal with that kind of thought process from your dad!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

as a boy i am intrigued to know more but i am also recoling in disgust at the same time for what the dad said. what did this dad say to her when she asked "hey dad did you ever masterbait?" how did he respond then?

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's my mom who'd say that to me xD although i don't necessarily agree, i just can't put tampons. Tried once, when i was 13, it was a nightmare and i said "never again".

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've hear this from a friend's mother in high school. My mother still laughs about it lol

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Mo Poppins
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Are there actually women who’ve been pleasured by tampons?

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is why brothers and sisters shouldn't get married. The gene pool becomes so shallow you couldn't even wade in it

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As long as you're not 35, no problems.

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Jane added that both men and women find it embarrassing to discuss their private health concerns with someone of the opposite sex, even if it is their own partner, but that being as open as possible with each other is the best way to gradually break down the taboo.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was about 14, over 20 years ago, I was reading the problem page in a teen magazine. A girl had written a letter, in a total panic, because her periods weren't blue. She thought she had some terrible disease.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is less about guys and girls but about parents and an educationl system failing massively...

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is actually scary. Wishing pain on someone? He needs his medical license revoked.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

how did ANYONE know how many she would need in space? how many women have had their periods in space? we know that the absence of gravity affects various body functions.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why on earth should father express his opinions about daughters sexual life?

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Shocking truth: babies are tiny robots juicing up inside their mums.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think you dodged a bullet with that one. Just because you are in college, does not mean you are educated.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I want a law that everyone need to have a certificate for passing Sex Ed in high school before you can be considered an adult.

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