Oh my god I’ve got so many 😭

  • @macisr@sh.itjust.works
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    1948 months ago

    I am a medical interpreter and until like three months ago I didn’t know that women had clear fluid secretions on the regular, as in as a normal part of their life monthly cycle. No one, not any gf nor my actual gf or any friend had told me that. I hadn’t heard about it anywhere, either on the news, on small talk, on jokes, on serious conversations, on sex ed, nowhere. I was in wonder not because of the fact, but because of how little info about it there is until I got the info in my job, and even there i hadn’t heard about it before nor after. It’s so weird for something so common to be this quiet.

    • flicker
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      1778 months ago

      You know what’s extra fun about this?

      Those secretions bleach underwear. That’s right, my cute black panties are all inevitably doomed to have a white spot in the crotch over time!

      • @Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
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        798 months ago

        I kept reading and hearing this and since it doesn’t happen to me I thought something was wrong with me. So I’d like to add that according to my gyn it’s also perfectly normal to not have this happen!

      • Im not a vagina haver, and I hear that the PH levels can also slowly cause holes in a lot of fabrics. That sounds rough, my washing machine slowly ruins enough of my clothes on it own.

          • Id imagine friction between sock and shoe plays a bigger part there than friction can play with genitals and underwear. At least I hope so, I pity the poor bastards who got just as much friction there on a dialy basis lol.

        • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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          98 months ago

          Yeah I didn’t learn that until after I became one. That was a fun thing to be informed is normal after thinking something is wrong

          • So when you say “after I became one” are you saying you’re trans and have begun to experience this after bottom surgery? If so, I’m wondering if there are the same kind of secretions from the penis that I’m just not noticing. I mean there are times when I drift off in thoughts of sexual fantasies and end up with “pre-cum” in my underwear. I wonder if it’s the same process.

            • Sombyr
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              48 months ago

              As a trans woman, we definitely can get a similar phenomenon, but I can’t vouch for how common it is or if it’s the same thing.

              If it does happen, it generally starts a while after your hormone levels get consistently in the right place. Don’t need surgery. For me, it’s even straight up dependant on what brand of estrogen I’m taking. I take injections, and if I’m on 10mg/ml, it happens, but any time I have to take 20mg/ml, it stops. Doesn’t matter that my hormone levels haven’t shifted even slightly.

              It is known that it’s the same organs producing it as males have, but why it begins to behave like that and why it doesn’t happen to everyone is, as far as I know, completely unknown.

        • @Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca
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          18 months ago

          Ugh so gross. So there’s only 1 possible solution, and they have to sell it to you. More options pleas3, not made of clunky, awkward pads which force me to wear Granny panties.

    • all-knight-party
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      848 months ago

      I’d almost say the same thing about the fact that ballsacks “breathe” constantly. It’s easily confirmed by just looking at them when idle, but nobody talks about it and I never read anything about it until I just… Looked at my own balls for a few seconds and realized they noticeably expand and contract at a discernable speed.

      • @h0rnman@lemmy.world
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        698 months ago

        That’s just their idle animation. Supposedly, if they desync, it’s like a yo-yo until they catch back up

      • @Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        338 months ago

        I wonder if it has to do with temp regulation. Iirc that’s the reason why balls can expand and contract to begin with.

        • XIIIesq
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          308 months ago

          It does. Cold temps, balls close to the body. High temps, long saggy ball bag.

          • all-knight-party
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            68 months ago

            This is like beyond that, it’s like your balls have the two major modes of being contracted or saggy, but then they also just constantly pulse even within the two, it’s probably from the same mechanism though

            • XIIIesq
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              28 months ago

              We come with a built in ball massaging feature!