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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.

Image credits: brownandbella

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    -
    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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    #19

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

    If she came, he wouldn't need to ask. And most women don't have orgasms in intercourse.

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

    Most don’t? Is that a fact? Yikes, just googled before I hit post so as nit to be that jerk. 75% don’t with intercourse alone. That sucks!

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

    How is that good manners to ask the woman if she came ? That's just cringey. If you can't tell if she had an orgasm or not, that's because she probably didn't. I would litteraly laugh out loud if a guy asked me that....

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

    I think she was trying to give him a huuuuge hint about the fact that she didn't come. My first male partner told me "J'ai fini" ("I'm done"??) after he came...and went snorting. I don't know how it sound in english, but in French this is mostly what toddlers say when they're done pooping so that you wipe their a*s.... strangely htat was our first and only time.

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

    Exactly, she should have nothing to do with him anymore ;)

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

    Lol another selfish lazy a*****e, jesus h Christ if a man doesn't cum its literally the end of the world, women are expected to just deal with it as its somehow all our own choice if we do or not

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

    nice of him to explain it to you.

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

    Are these kind of old boyz too busy with themselves to REALIZE what and how a woman feels ? Such an interview after sex would seriously annoy me..

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

    If only that we're true for manboys..

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

    I know their are alot of ignorant people in the world. Now I know most of them are in the US LOl

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

    Oh, man! (Woman!) The s**t that you women have to put up with.

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

    I had a 50 something married man tell me he could tell if a woman was a virgin because her nipples were pink. He thought they turned brown if you had sex!

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

    My boyfriend didn't realize that when you wear a tampon you leave it in- he thought you just wiped the blood up with it.

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

    Definitely have "emotional reasons" now. Just probably not the ones he's thinking.

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

    The one about sex should be on top. This is totally gold.

    Vi King
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yall are f*****g r******d. Like "women" are some collective entity that are all the same. Did it ever occur to you... that 'women' are as diverse from one to the other as 'people'???? Some women you have to ask some you don't. Some women are shy, some women are not. Some times a guy wants to ask, sometimes he doesn't. Does it really f*****g matter? Jesus Heckin Christ.

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

    I was on birth control pills and my boyfiend asked me how come I still have period. :D

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

    And some girls bites on lollipops, for emotional reasons.

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

    If he has to ask.....it’s a big NO!!!!

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

    Lol yeah, cause they're sad that the guy they're with is an idiot.

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

    I know a father who told his daughter that women don’t come every time. Well I’ve got news, we can & do if you’re doing it right!

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

    Correction, now this is the dumbest thing I've ever heard

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

    "Emotional reasons" = incompetent, selfish men.

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

    Wow. Apparently this guy never had a woman come for him before. Like... If I had a hat I'd take it off in sympathy of his incapability. I mean even boys get girls there, even by accident...

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

    Could it be that the bloke was too inept?

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

    seems that if you can't, some take offense. there are other reasons-idk know any specific, but cannot explain even personal experience, and it's incredibly frustrating!

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

    Dude is so spot on. Some women need a**l to loosing up the vagina pleasure.

    Minnie-me
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    6 years ago

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    yea or his tiny penis may be the reason. WHO KNOWS

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