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Although determination are billions of women successful the world, our anatomy is inactive misunderstood by a important information of the population. And it doesn't assistance that women's sexuality and reproductive wellness are often considered "taboo" and truthful not discussed. However, this deficiency of cognition doesn't halt radical from making WILD assumptions astir women's bodies...
1. "I was dating a feline who abruptly became precise blimpish and anti-abortion. He was besides anti-birth power because, according to him, 'It's similar getting an termination each month.'"
2. "I had a friend, who astatine 20 years old, genuinely believed women did not person buttholes and therefore, did not poop. He thought erstwhile we farted it came retired of our vaginas. Mind you, helium had a woman and was not a virgin. She was the astir shocked erstwhile helium admitted this to the group."
3. "When I was successful Air Force method school, I met a pistillate my property (19 astatine the time) who was convinced the umbilical cord carried SOLID FOOD to the fetus. She refused to judge otherwise. Her evidence: 'My niece and nephew pooped aft being born, truthful you're wrong.'"
"I had ne'er met anyone truthful disarmingly dumb, and I inactive question however she managed to snag a occupation that (at the time) required 1 of the highest ASVAB scores crossed each subject services."
4. "A coworker (who was implicit 60) went to the doc due to the fact that her breasts were hurting, and she was perpetually retired of enactment and tired. She was frightened due to the fact that she thought it could beryllium bosom cancer."
5. "One of my classmates asked maine if women truly bleed blue. I was like, 'What?' This dude thought we had bluish periods due to the fact that 'in the pad commercials they determination immoderate bluish liquid, and I figured that's play blood.' I asked him wherefore helium thought immoderate humor successful our bodies was bluish and immoderate was red?"
"But seriously, wherefore bash pad commercials amusement the bluish liquid erstwhile movies are good with showing blood, guts, and brains?"
6. "When I was pregnant, I was a fewer centimeters dilated for respective days earlier the babe was born. I was location for those days and told my sister what was going on. She asked maine aboriginal that nighttime if I was 3cm dilated and I told her I didn’t cognize due to the fact that I hadn’t checked."
"She was shocked that I wasn’t astatine the hospital. She told maine I should get my spouse to cheque it retired with a ruler. She thought 'dilated' meant the baby's caput was retired a mates of centimeters; she didn't cognize it was referring to the cervix.
The kicker? She was besides large astatine the time."
7. "I had a person successful precocious schoolhouse who was convinced that it was anatomically intolerable for a pistillate to get large the archetypal clip she had sex; In her mind, you didn’t request to usage condoms for your archetypal time. She thought if you didn’t usage a condom, but stood up instantly aft enactment and didn’t prevarication down for 2-3 hours, it would beryllium 90% effective, truthful it wasn't a large woody if you forgot them occasionally."
8. "In nursing school, earlier we catheterize existent people, we indispensable be objective skills training. The assemblage had tons of anatomical dummy things to use. I was successful a radical with 2 different women, and we started with 1 of the pistillate dummies. They kept putting the catheter up the vagina and couldn’t fig retired wherefore the bladder wasn’t draining."
"I don’t cognize what acquisition they received increasing up, but they were grown women successful the 2nd twelvemonth of a nursing degree, who didn’t cognize that women don’t urinate retired of their vaginas. I had to amusement them wherever the urethra was and they were gobsmacked."
9. "One day, I was connected my play and felt similar crap. A person and I were expected to spell to the excavation that day, but I told him I didn’t consciousness comfy getting successful the h2o and I had truly atrocious cramps owed to my period."
"He looked astatine maine and said, 'Can’t you conscionable clasp it successful and marque your play halt for similar an hr truthful you tin bask the water. You know, similar however you tin clasp successful a sneeze?'
I thought helium was being a astute ass but, no, I had to explicate it to him."
10. "This 1 was highly concerning due to the fact that it came from my antheral gynecologist: When I went for my yearly cheque up, I informed him that I had a polyp astatine my vagina which was near unnoticed. Due to its placement, it was undetected during my pap due to the fact that the speculum was successful its way."
11. "A radical of allegedly 'sexually experienced' guys astatine my schoolhouse confidently exclaimed that the pistillate orgasm is simply a story — meaning that women are physically incapable to orgasm."
"When 1 feline spoke up to accidental his woman had decidedly orgasmed, they told him she was lying and emotionally manipulating him."
12. "My hubby and I were the lone joined radical successful our person radical for years. We wanted to person 4 kids, truthful we made a wide timeline of erstwhile we needed to commencement trying to conceive each one. Because we had to program for circumstantial times, we were retired of sync with our friends who went connected amusive trips and attended drinking events each weekend."
"After a while, 1 of our friends genuinely asked wherefore we couldn’t conscionable enactment it disconnected and person kids aboriginal (we’re successful our thirties).
He did not cognize what menopause was. We had to explicate to him that if we privation 4 kids, we can’t commencement trying to person them astatine 50."
13. "Once, I tried to person a person to spell to a performance with maine astatine a section bar. She declined due to the fact that she was connected her period. I asked her wherefore that affected her going out. Did she consciousness sick oregon person cramps? Nope."
14. "I had to explicate to a person that her hubby did not participate her uterus erstwhile they had sex. She had nary thought that the vagina is simply a muscle, oregon that the cervix is simply a obstruction betwixt the vagina and uterus."
"I told her if helium was 'stabbed' by her IUD, she needed to spell to the doc due to the fact that it was not placed correctly oregon her assemblage was experiencing thing horrendous."
15. "I had an ex-boss who had precise dumb ideas astir women's anatomy..."
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