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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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Sabrina45X Report

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.

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    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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    LitAgentMarini Report

    Paweŀ Ziem
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created 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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    KristyInCA Report

    Clare McDuff
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created 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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    #5

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    ThaBrunchMami Report

    Koalamonster
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created 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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    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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    Bigboysplash Report

    Nikki D
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Good on you for defending your wife!

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    #8

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    My_Beloved_One Report

    Nikki D
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That poor girl... Worse will be in store

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    #9

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    jennschiffer Report

    Amina Hays
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created 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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    earzeg Report

    Hans
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created 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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    #11

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    njokingumi Report

    Nikki D
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created 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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    egyptiancotn Report

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    RHanniganWrites Report

    Koalamonster
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think we should all just tell people that from now on.

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    rosalina1001 Report

    Zenozenobee
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Man, what aluck Humanitity survived till Pasteur saved us!

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    #16

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    Nikki D
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean, I really wish this were possible.

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    #17

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    mariaa_escobar Report

    Sarcastic Cow
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What about his masturbation - genocide.

    katarina
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    sperm can live for up to 74 days in man’s testicles. does the guy feel sad each 74th day 'cause he didn't make a baby during his cyclus?

    Justine Nicole
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is he sad every time he masturbates because he's killing millions of babies hahaha

    Alex Grosdanofski
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yea a BILLION deaths per ejaculate!! Jerking off is MASS MURDER!! 😆🤣😳

    Lacey Heward
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Haha! You should ask him if he cries every time he eats chicken eggs!

    glowworm2
    Community Member
    6 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I vaguely remember a post on "I used to believe.com where someone once thought that the discarded endometrium aka the blood and blood clots were pieces of the "baby." Such as maybe one of their feet or hands. Keep in mind, this was a thought when the person was 13 and had just started her period.

    glowworm2
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Here it is, it's the 5th one down. https://www.iusedtobelieve.com/sex/periods/periods_s1.php

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    Snowy Tundra
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When Vice President Pence was governor of Indiana, he signed legislation that would force women to bury or have cremated *all* miscarriages and aborted fetuses. The courts blocked that particular part of the bill, the rest of which was not especially as whacked out as that part. The proponents of that part are continuing to try to get it unblocked. Hundreds, maybe thousands of women sent used menstrual pads and tampons to Pence's office so that they could be microscopically examined to find the zygotes and embryos that had been stopped before the woman was even aware that fertilization had even taken place. The measure was declared unconstitutional a year ago.

    Chiemi Honda
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    '...any masterbatory emissions, where his sperm was clearly not seeking an egg could be termed reckless abandonment..." Elle Woods

    Weyeswoman
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That’s a favorite of the pro-life set...killing babies every month.

    R.s. Potter
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Great, now I've got the Sperm Song from The Meaning Of Life running through my head.

    Lillukka79
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You're not alone. "Every sperm is sacred.."

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    Sue Sue
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So every time he eats an egg.....murdered chicken?

    Myriam Ickx
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds actually kind of scary - like the sort of argument those pro-life States might use to prohibit abortion...

    Diana Doova
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Like we should just ban periods! Its just like an abortion

    Michèle Gyselinck
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No. If the egg hasn't been fertilized it's not a baby.

    Christina Sersif
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sure I get sad, but that's not why. I'm sad because i'm in pain jerk.

    Esther
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A period isn't a dead baby because it wasn't fertilized

    Karen Dales
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I guess we should ask men if they get sad every time they masturbate because every sperm is a dead baby.

    KarmaQueen
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OMG, I am shocked to hear that men think these things.

    Alex Grosdanofski
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    why does this app turn emojis into question marks..so annoying.

    Cherry Warr
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    but every egg can develop into a child, that's just science, he may not have been trying to be judgmental, he may just have been talking bigger picture. Every egg that is released from your body is a 'potential' child that will never live now, it's not anyone's fault, it isn't a religious thing, it just IS....I wonder about what my children may have been like if I had given birth to each...would that egg have produced a scientist? a dancer? a drug addict? blue eyes? brown hair? it isn't a hit at anyone's choices to wonder and explore feelings.

    Linouchka 99
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    6 years ago

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    Actually kinda true when you're trying to conceive : not a "dead" baby, but a "baby not happening"... :-/

    Uwe Theiss
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Based on that a dead girl is 400 "baby not happening" and because a baby could be also female it is infinite babies not happening. If you look at male masturbation it gets into the millions with only one masturbation. So it is kind of stupid to think about.

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    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That would be great, actually

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    Cherry Warr
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created 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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    Regina_Griffin Report

    Sarcastic Cow
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, and that claws and fangs and fur thing...annoying.

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    Sarcastic Cow
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created 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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    lupespace Report

    Sarcastic Cow
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can you hold that stupid sounds coming out from your mounth?

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    Natters
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created 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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    Luis Milian
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created 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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    GoodWolf
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So does he wash his penis every time after peeing?

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    bergerbell Report

    nanashi
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created 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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    Luis Milian
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    let me guess...he is an anti-vaxx as well

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