the Red Tent

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 6:49 pm

Rob the Wop wrote:
Lydia Love wrote:So, um... looking for advice from women who've had more recent dating experience than me...

Let's say I'm going to go hang out with a fellah who has good reason (i.e. precedent) to think he'll get lucky.

At what point do y'all think it's a good idea to let him know that he still can but it'll be a bloody fucking mess in the most literal of ways?
Right after you stop screaming, "Oh my fucking God, your penis is bleeding!!!" at the top of your voice.

talk about Vagina Dentata!

dr.placebo · Post by **dr.placebo** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 6:50 pm

I'm a guy, not a gal (clearly), but I appreciate the straight approach. Once I understood that my partner was OK with it then I was quite willing. Just about everything good about sex is a bit messy anyway.

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 7:03 pm

quite honestly, I LIKE sex while I'm bleeding... my hormones are off the charts, my cervix is a little weighted down, making things feel different and new, and it's also a very accepting feeling, to have someone who is willing to not treat you like you have the fucking PLAGUE for a week...

and i agree... sex is meant to be messy...

just keep a towel nearby, and away we go!

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 7:14 pm

{smiling}

I love my new thread.

{smearing a deep unctuous red in a lovely messy way on Doc Placebo's forehead, tip of nose, and chin, with a kiss}

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 7:16 pm

I love your new thread, too, Giggles.

As i love you.

*big Guini kiss to Giggles----that's right, RIGHT ON THE LIPS*

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 7:25 pm

*swoon*

Oh, how I love you too, Miss Elise! How many days until .....?

Dr. Zigmunt · Post by **Dr. Zigmunt** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 12:07 pm

I haff come to apologize to you schoene daman, um, lofly ladies, for protjecting my vomb enfy on you and declaring that you haff penis enfy. I am :oops:

Rian Jackson · Post by **Rian Jackson** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 12:57 pm

donita, is that you in that lab coat?
oh, hi gals. i just stopped by to figure out why we have so many DOCTORS these days.

Dr. Zigmunt · Post by **Dr. Zigmunt** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 2:27 pm

Zo. Tell me about how you feel followt by Doctoren.

Vie lang has this be going on?

Perhaps you'd like to lie down and relax. . .

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:00 pm

{giggles takes the pigment pot und marks a big red question mark on der doctor's forehead}

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:04 pm

gigglesnort wrote:{giggles takes the pigment pot und marks a big red question mark on der doctor's forehead}

Psssst.

Giggles--I say we kick his sexist, nosey ass out of here.

dr.placebo · Post by **dr.placebo** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 7:13 pm

I've never understood how someone can claim to love women and be unable to cope with one of the sacred signs of being a woman. The Red Tent should be a shrine and a place of honor.

I'm not a real doctor, but I play one on the playa...

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 7:16 pm

dr.placebo wrote:I've never understood how someone can claim to love women and be unable to cope with one of the sacred signs of being a woman. The Red Tent should be a shrine and a place of honor.

Amen.

Shite.

*big Guini kisses RIGHT ON THE LIPS for this man!*

Donita · Post by **Donita** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:00 am

Silver 2 wrote: And uh, darlin' you got to upgrade the guys you've been hanging out with:
(snip snip)

Please see the 'I like sex' thread, pages 6 amd 7
http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic. ... amps#97355
(snip snip)

Comment, we older guys might not be as nice to look at but there is something to be said for experience.

Sadly, I have not been hanging out with any for a long time. *sigh*
Last boyfriend/fiancee was 14 years older than me. I liked the age difference a lot. Then he died.

Donita · Post by **Donita** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:33 am

GuinivereElise wrote:as you wish...

*answering Bananaphone... listening....nodding....setting Bananaphone back on the cradle*
It was Donita's monkey. She says that she's found her true love. That's the real reason Brad and Jennifer split up. Monkey and Brad will be moving into the house that he and Jen bought on Bainbridge Island. If we need to get ahold of Monkey, we're supposed to send a Bananamessenger over on the ferry.

Yep, just got a postcard the other day. Alas, rumors are true. Monkey ran off with Brad, BUT she's secretly having a hot torrid affair with her TRUE love......Mr. Peepers!!!!

Donita · Post by **Donita** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:44 am

Rian Jackson wrote:donita, is that you in that lab coat?

Nope. Scrubs.

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 9:41 am

{fashioning a tiara with flip-numbers on the top amidst plastic bananas and lots of sparkles, and a few feathers for good measure; flipping to hte number 6.5 and bestowing upon her head amidst much fanfare}

Donita, I hereby proclaim you Queen of hte Kicked Butt! Congratulations!

Donita · Post by **Donita** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 9:46 am

**smiles, graciously accepts and gives Giggles a hug**

Thank you.

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 7:41 pm

{hiding out for a bit}

Lydia Love · Post by **Lydia Love** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 9:58 pm

Well.

I guess he just read the Red Tent thread, so I don't actually have to say anything.

I'm not sure I still have an invitation to go hang out, though...

Rian Jackson · Post by **Rian Jackson** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 7:49 am

Lydia Love wrote:Well.

I guess he just read the Red Tent thread, so I don't actually have to say anything.

I'm not sure I still have an invitation to go hang out, though...

y'know, i was gonna suggest just waiting until this happened, but i didn't want to overstep the boundaries of privacy....

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 4:37 pm

*stepping into the tent, wondering if giggles finally started to bleed yet*

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 4:44 pm

fucking no I haven't. And now all of a sudden I'm not real sure what the moon was last time and wondering if I'm just all confused or what. I bought some pennyroyal at the market yesterday cause anxiety is creeping in. Anyone have experience with it?

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 4:46 pm

The Stranger ran the recipe for it a while ago... didn't clip it, though... i'm sure that you can google it...

Martiansky · Post by **Martiansky** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 4:47 pm

*stepping into tent*

Hello! I've been wanting to come in here for a while. I don't know why I didn't before, I guess I thought you needed an invite. (do I?)

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:13 pm

......didn't I already doodle on your forehead, I thought??? {gesturing toward shelf full of little pigment pots of varying colors, large vanity mirror} Not that it's required or anything like that. Make yourself at home! (What woman isn't welcome in a Red Tent?) Know anything about drinking pennyroyal tea?

Martiansky · Post by **Martiansky** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:36 pm

Yes, you did doodle on my head! I didn't catch the hint though!

I don't know anything about pennyroyal, sorry. But as of Oct 14th no longer have need for any of that.

I want to tell you my story because it's kinda scary..........
Ok, so for well over a year I wasn't getting my period but maybe a couple times a year. I didn't have any medical insurance so I kept putting it off. Then when I hadn't had it at all for a year (no chance of being pregnant ;P) I went out and got insurance on my own. I called my doctors office and couldn't get in to see him because he was out of the country. So, I made an appoinmant with another doctor in the office(one that my aunt suggested). So, I got an appointment with her instead. I went and the first visit she was great, very caring and knowing (my other doc wasn't really) so I went, ended up getting a papsmear but it came back normal. Then my doc wanted me to have a biopsy. Have you ever had one? They freaking hurt like hell! The so-called small pich is BS!! It hurt so bad the doctor was like...breathe breathe breathe!! WOW! OK, so that came back inconclusive. She wanted me to get another one. NO WAY I said. She said, "I knew you'd say that. You'll have to go to a OBGYN." So, I made an appoinment with my OBGYN. Went in saw her and she said my best bet was getting a DNC where they put you under and it's done in an hour and you go home the same day.
Thank God I did! I had lots of polyps and the were atypical(low level cancerous) cells. Then my OBGYN said take these estrogen pills for 12 days and then stop you should get your period.(my body want making enough) If not to call her. I took them for 12 days and then spotted only when I woke up one morning. I waited 2 weeks and took the again for 12 days. I waited and....nothing. I called her (OBGYN) up and she said I should have a hysterectomy. So, I had an abdominal hysterectomy (7inch scar) took 6 weeks off from work. Thanks God I had that done too because the polyps had grown back in 3 months and now my uterus had atypical cells and was bad!!
So, ladies...I know that it is a long story but please take note.

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:46 pm

here here, and way to take care of yourself. I had a positive pap once, ended up getting my cervix scraped with electrocautery to remove abnormal cells. Yuck. I get my pap yearly and they've all been good since (crossing fingers). My nurse-midwife and I suspect that I've got endometriosus, as well, but my periods are fairly regular, other than that they cycle between the new and full moons over a course of time (day or two earlier/later each month) but usually no drastic changes.

Probably I just got caught up in the spirit here or else just lost track of the moon phase, which isn't uncommon for me. (Low back ache day = ovulation day??? Am I that off?) Can't rule out hte possibility of that P word (shhh, don't say it out loud), however, as I have been proven fertile as a river delta.

Martiansky · Post by **Martiansky** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:49 pm

I still have my ovaries so I do get ovualtion stabbing pains every once in a while.....Yay, not!

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:55 pm

I don't mind the pain so much, usually. It reminds me of the cycle, the connection to womanhood, connection to hte earth and moon, amazing to me, and a true blessing. And a reminder to nurture myself and tend my body's needs.