How to explain A Period To Your Boyfriend
How much does your boyfriend know about periods?
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I'm so beat yeah and then that's yeah
right I'm Natalie on Tom we've been
dating for three years now turn off
three and a half years thanks and today
we're going to see how much he knows
about periods I feel like you know the
emotional side of things
hmm because of my experience yeah bye
Betty you have no idea about like the
logistics I don't know how it works I
don't know how you deal with them well
firstly you do you think men need to
know anything about this subject matter
do you think it's important yeah course
important otherwise how are you gonna
understand what you're going through I
think men generally especially if my
generation will say we'll make jokes
about it and put it down put any kind of
bad mood down to it as a way of just
like I don't know minimalizing any
argument or something but patriarchy
yeah something do you know what these
three little items are yes
go on talk me through it this is a
tampon yeah this is a sanitary towel
yeah that's fat yeah and this is a moon
cup yes so but if you open them up okay
have you ever seen inside a tampon no
and I've always wondered what happens
when you pull that I don't think I don't
I shouldn't pull it okay so how would
you think to insert that you can use it
put in the water sure you have your
route of this thing
yeah Oh have I gone too far yeah what
part goes in let's start this again you
pulled it out uh-huh
and think of a syringe what's this next
thing you do with the syringe yeah
pull the string bit no no to insert it
you push you push that right Juliet
I'm so beat and that's yeah right mm-hmm
that goes recyclable no rubbish look at
this now I have opened and used one of
these before when my friend had quite a
bad nosebleed handy yeah he fell on her
read what part sticks where it just goes
around little bit like kind of nothing
no you stick it in your underwear right
what do you think these are for these
she's better just stick on to your
legs maybe that wouldn't be very
comfortable it's more of a their wings
wings just go around your knickers would
you ever not have ban only have that
it's a personal preference risky
business
what do you mean to know what feel like
you'd know if that gets for no really
didn't you if it's not like you've got a
am i overestimating the sensitivity of
yeah thanks that yeah yeah okay and this
looks like something cap la mer leaves
in your house do you know how one might
insert it carefully I mean pop pop it in
no got a lot yeah no no no as a few
options right he fold and then he fold
again and then you've got to like
crowbar in there and then she opens up
then sure there's a hole in the book
always not a hole in the bottom no it's
not buddy
I thought that rain it's not that the
bottom to create a suction okay yeah not
you know don't ever need to recycle that
how much you think each of these items
cost so the pad the tampon and the moon
cup it should be free preach sister I
think that's probably the most expensive
four quid it's more twenty pounds plus
region how many times you go you saw
this thing that you got years of use if
you look after it correctly okay I
thought it was all you know no no so cuz
reform because
is technically the material could live
in your body it's actually supposed to
be good for you and I think three pound
fifty not bad both of them are in the
two to three pound region a survey in
2015 said women spend about thirteen
pounds a month which is 492 pounds a
year which also includes painkillers and
new underwear when you evidently f it up
ridiculous
yeah how often do you think you need to
change a tampon that's subjective surely
no okay why today every four to eight
hours do you know what could happen if
you leave a tampon in 30 no I imagine
spillage yeah it can develop into a very
like a rare but life-threatening
condition how old do you think girls are
when they get their first period 11 or
12
not bad between 11 and 14 what was your
first period like she remember my first
period was quite traumatic because I'm
on holiday you don't know it's coming no
you have no idea started my period I was
freaking out I was really I was young I
was 11 so I don't think we didn't even
been taught about it yet I run into my
told my mom and then she was like oh my
god it's your period and then my mom
proceeded to tell my auntie and my
auntie proceeded to tell everyone we
knew so on top of starting a period and
like having this like so huge change in
your life everyone's coming up to you
being like I hear you're a woman now
that's okay but also it's quite good
because in Malaysia they like
celebrators they give you money I made
like 200 quid other than bleeding what
do you think other symptoms are how bad
do I get mood swings okay a range of
emotions right yeah you don't like
permit agree yeah we get bad cramps
headaches feeling quite sick so you can
get yeah cramps PMS food cravings mm-hmm
Acme mm-hmm you know when I get spots
like every upset about it yeah and then
my mood swings it's an annuity period
yeah
bloating fatigue bowel issues tender
breasts that's a big one
since to prove sensitive boobs fair
enough lower back pain
sleeping nor he said do you know what
PMS is something menstrual something
hey Siri what does PMS stand for
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syndrome I think one thing about PMS is
is that you feel all of these emotions
and then when your period comes you're
like oh it's here for me it happens like
every single month
mm-hmm I'm just so upset or angry and
then the period comes on my and I've
still not figured out it's because your
periods coming it's not you're not in
control yeah it's just that you don't
understand why you're I think things
irritate you way easier or something
which has happened makes you react in a
much you know in a different way to
which you normally would I think a lot
of guys would assume that you know if
someone shouts at you or quits their job
I don't know like what if a woman does
that leaking out probably on the joke is
all she's probably married you are fully
in control is you're just having to deal
with a lot of mental emotional and
physical pain all at the same time men
don't really understand what that is
because it's very rare for someone to
feel all of those things all in one go
yeah so you've got understand that like
if we're having a bad day and we snap at
you yeah we're on our period but like
also probably done something wrong
we've also yeah you probably done
something wrong and you're trying to
just deal with it all and like a snap is
is really us controlling our emotions
when all of those things and it just
slips a bit mm-hmm in my year nine
German class my period had started that
that morning and I just get the worst
cramps and I actually passed out from
the pain
that's really when how long do you think
a period lasts for about four days yeah
four to eight days over a general like
an average period how much blood do you
think is lost half point half a pint ah
blood oh my god lovely we'd be bleeding
out well yeah but yeah okay everywoman
Wow yeah but like that's that's all
that much liquid is it it's between 30
to 40 ml yes like a shot double shot
yeah yeah rather than hospitalized fine
oh no no do you know what endometriosis
is what endometriosis endometriosis is a
condition which causes severe pain and
really really heavy periods and often
not often but it can lead to infertility
no it affects one in ten women which is
quite a lot MPs are currently doing an
inquiry into the Gish into the condition
because women with the condition have
not been believed in the past on average
in the UK it takes seven and a half
years sweet I like nice why does it take
so long because a lot of the time I'll
just put it down to bad like period
pains a lot of the time women go to
doctors sometimes especially well
especially male doctors understandeth
don't understand it tell them their
symptoms and then they'd like oh you've
just probably got a really bad period
take some painkillers in it so it's
actually a really really painful
condition good that they're doing
inquiry yeah how should they teach you
in schools
I think they should teach it younger
because and it should be also not just a
science thing like in biology it needs
to be more about also the emotional side
of things and like the lifestyle side of
things as opposed to the womb sheds
every twenty eight yeah yeah yeah I also
just think guys should ask more
questions and women should feel more
comfortable talking about it with with
with men men like co-workers friends
like before I used to you know stuff
tampons down my sleeve but now I feel
like you just need to just hold it like
it's not a big deal mmm like none of us
would be here if you know periods didn't
exist because that's all a part of like
the reproductive cycle so really it's
thanks to various that men are who they
asked exist next time you're on your
period and you have a fake eye thing
what should I get you I just like bread
right a lot of bread thank you yeah okay
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