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Normally, a person looses around 40ml of blood per period with people having 450 periods on average in their life. This means that on average a person would loose 18l of blood from menstruation alone. With the average human having between 4.5l and 5.7l, you'd only need to sacrifice 4 people to the menstruation gods to never have to shed blood for that ever again. ~~In my experience, it works best when sacrificing transphobes or terfs.~~

As a quick side note: I hate it when someone refers to it as a "pseudo-period". The hormonal cycle is very very real, I can assure you that.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm ignorant about this – AMAB people who've undergone HRT experience the same hormonal flux as people with uteruses? Does that come with cramps, sickness, libido changes, etc? I guess it can vary from person to person and/or what age someone underwent HRT?

Please correct me if I'm misusing terms! Totally honest questions.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago

I believe humanity is still very naive about our own brain, hormones and pheromones affect wildly understudied.

I am convinced every person regardless of sex have cycles running all the time, its just usually a lot more subtle and blended in with everything else affecting us.

There might even be an argument that female menstruation is only so pronounced because there was an evolutionary benefit to having a basic understanding of reproductive patterns.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago

Yeah pretty much.

I'm currently in my hormonal cycle and I'm feeling pretty sick and needy and while cramps are rare (at least for me), they do happen for some odd reason and even researchers don't really know why.

Btw even cis guys have a hormone cycle but it usually doesn't have an effect like with estrogen.

(Also since you've asked, please don't use my words and stuff as a reference to how to use terms in the situation... English isn't my first language sadly)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's why I posted this yesterday, isn't it?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I should really take that to heart too but I just can't help myself ;w;

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No, you shouldn't. I was just feeling emotional and shared a meme I made a while back, but didn't feel like posting at the time. You should allow yourself to get attached and break your heart, if only because you deserve to be loved ❤

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Update from a few days later: Yeah... I got attached and obsessed with someone (ó﹏ò｡)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

It might be better to pursue it and eventually be honest with them. As you learn more about their flaws, they will stop being an unreachable figure, and start to become a person you understand. At the same time, you don't need to hide your feelings as much (they might pick up on them, as like me, you probably suck at being sneaky). They'll feel respected and understood, especially if you make it clear that you'll accept a rejection.

That said, only try this if you can spend a lot of time with them. If you can't see each other very often, it would be hard for even a super charismatic person to form a meaningful bond. If they give a rude rejection to someone being so honest and vulnerable, you deserved better. If they give a kind rejection, you can move on and might be able to stay as friends. All potential options are better than the alternative, so be brave!

This advice (that I have never tried) should be taken with a handful of salt. I just looked at what didn’t work for me in the past, and assumed my anxieties then were totally counter productive. If someone was obsessed with me, I'd want them to behave this way. I want others to show me respect as an equal person, not hate themselves while seeing me as perfect.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Do you have a sauce in thede numbers?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

amount of blood per period: https://www.menstrual-matters.com/bloodloss/ (35 - 40ml, i took the higher estimate, sources for the values at the bottom)

amount of periods in total: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2244694/ (451.3, rounded down to 450)

40ml * 450 = 18000ml = 18l

I can't find the original numbers for average blood content in a human but the general consensus seems to be that it's between 4.5 and 5.5. It doesn't really matter though since, even if we say that you'd sacrifice 4 people with only 4.5l of blood, you'd still reach your desired 18l of sacrificial blood.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Having never experienced or observed menstruation, i think its hilarious that there's dudes squeamish about that little blood lol; I've had that much just from nosebleeds! 40ml is not that much

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

True but it's not only blood. Source 1 says it's 70-80ml of fluids, 35-40ml of which is blood.

Regardless, as someone who has an almost obsessive fascination with our beautiful red fluid, the idea of someone being squeamish about blood is wild to me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Never lived with a woman? Like not even a mom, sister, or aunt?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Separate bathroom from parents, otherwise? Nope.