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HAVING SEX WITH A GIRL WHILE SHE'S ON HER PERIOD
While there is hardly anything more romantic for a guy than taking his girlfriend out to a quiet dinner at an expensive restaurant, bringing her home to a nice bottle of wine and finishing the evening in passionate rapture, having sex while she's on her period doesn't exactly put the O in rOmatic.
You would probably just grip it and bear your abstinence if you did run into this situation,but sometimes the urge is too great. If men and women do indulge in sex during that most inopportune time of the month, there are some things to consider.
Carolyn Johnson, head of the gynecology department at Watkins Memorial Health Center, says there is only a slight increase in the chance of contracting disease.
"If there were an open cut, there is more exposure to blood and that could provide more risk," Johnson says. This is especially true if the cut is on the man.
Johnson says she has more fear that people don't realize that a woman is susceptible to getting pregnant during sex even when she is on her period. Women with shorter cycles are especially fertile near the end of their period.
This came as a shock to Andrea Steen,
Overland Park sophomore, who said she has had
sex while on her period but would probably not
do it again.
Steen says, "That makes me a little scared. I had no idea that you could get pregnant."
Steen says her decision to participate in sex
while on her period really came down to the guy being comfortable with it. She says she felt slightly self-conscious about it, but was able to get over any insecurities when she found out the guy was fine with it. She felt most concerned with the mess involved.
After learning that she was vulnerable to becoming pregnant, Steen says she has another reason not to participate in sex while on her period again.
Johnson also says that it is not typical for a woman to have a high sex drive while on her period. She says the period of ovulation usually
coincides with a higher sex drive among
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