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By: joy

joy — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:20:48 +0000

disgusting

By: onmybike365

onmybike365 — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:32:59 +0000

Amazed by a couple of things here. Firstly I cannot believe women are still shoving bleached cotton up themselves when they could be using a mooncup! Only people who haven’t tried one think they’re ‘not secure’. As for sex, you can still do everything when you have your period (and I don’t mean rollerskating/ playing tennis); I don’t understand the point of this article/ debate! If you’re scared of your own blood use a different hole. Oh, you’re probably scared of your own shit too..

Secondly I’m gobsmacked to see some women equating ‘butch’ with undesirable. I have so much to say about this I don’t even know where to start.

By: MarkSpizer

MarkSpizer — Mon, 03 May 2010 10:27:31 +0000

great post as usual!

By: barkbirch

barkbirch — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:32:03 +0000

a period exhibition would be the tits! unfortunately, some crazy spaniards got there first. that photo has been in a small exhibition in madrid, all about period blood, called “my body is a battleground” (i forget what that it is spanish). i have a picture somewhere of two blokes peering intently at my photo, hanging next to a pair of stained knickers. so excellent.

hum hum i had mixed reasons – this photo was a test for melting the icecubes. after i did that, i took photos of my boyfriend wearing a necklace made of period blood icecubes, naked. (you can see those photos on my flickr stream, which you have kindly linked to, if there is any reason you would like to see such a thing). my primary reason for taking the photos was because i found it pretty funny. i wanted to do a parody of terrible conceptual art. but, while i don’t take it super seriously, i also feel very strongly that period blood is not disgusting, not even a little bit, at all. so – a mixture of taking the piss out of pretentious contemporary art, while also secretly embodying pretentious contemporary art.

By: petit fours

petit fours — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:29:46 +0000

oh hi barkbirch – thanks for making that photo, it is definitely an addition to the range of period photos out there. believe me there aren’t that many. (maybe we should do a gallery sometime… )
love that you had the idea to do that, why?

don’t know why i thought you were american, must have read one of the flickr comments wrong.. sor about that.

man i forgot how good this comment thread was..

By: barkbirch

barkbirch — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:11:19 +0000

hey, i took the bottom photo and i just saw this! firstly, i’d like to say i’m thrilled it was used on the site.
however, i’d like to point out, petit fours, that i’m not an american art student, i’m a british law student living in london!
and also, it’s not ‘more lurid’ than it looks in real life – that’s my period blood, collected by mooncup, frozen into an icecube and then melted in cold bath and the water drained.

By: I don't like cake that much-sozzzzah

I don't like cake that much-sozzzzah — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:29:05 +0000

I really enjoyed reading all these comments (as well as the article itself). I think that all the posts are usually far too nice and positive. I do love love it when the claws are out (not really that would be painful and unhygenic). Period schmeriod, I say. It gets rid of cramps and it’s only the stuff that’s lined your womb for 21days!

By: Jeez Louise

Jeez Louise — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:14:13 +0000

Waiting for Custard to point out that a dead horse would be incapable of using the telephone. Oh how I laughed Miss Roly Poly.

Only kidding Custard, its all good, yeah? Both Butches and Femmes (how 1950′s) love TheMostCake – lets rejoice!

By: Just Love A Bit of Cake

Just Love A Bit of Cake — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:04:22 +0000

HA!
You have an excellent turn of phrase, Spotted Dick.
“Riding the cotton pony”/”pursue hobbies”, indeed.

My ex and I used to have massive “talks” when we were both on our rags. Talks and snuggles and chocolate.

Hooray for periods.
Hooray for being a woman.

By: Jam roly poly

Jam roly poly — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:07:08 +0000

Hey custard, i’ve got a dead horse on the phone, it’s asking that you kindly desist from flogging it.

By: coussin de Lyon

coussin de Lyon — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:52:03 +0000

This picture is beautiful!! Thanks for posting it! Really.

By: custard

custard — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:21:15 +0000

The first thing that I saw when I clicked on this link was the picture at the top. Now, if I hadn’t read any of the topic and just saw that picture, having sex whilst on my period would not be the first thing that entered my head. It has also been construed as a woman that has just been raped (when I showed it to several friends both gay and straight). I just think that the picture was inappropriate.

Furthermore Devils Food Cake- your aunt is biologically wrong and obviously your interpretation is also incorrect. As the majority of women know- a period is not the result of fertility; it is the result of an unfertilised oocyte and the breaking away of the uterus that has built up in expectance of fertilisation. Having periods doesn’t even demonstrate fertility. There are plenty of women who cannot have children even though they menstruate every month. So, really, a period is the opposite of fertility.

In response to your “close minded” comment. I am not making any attempts to segregate feminine women I just thought that this website was supposed to be refreshingly original in that it was aimed at a certain spectrum of women that I personally feel are very under represented and I am disappointed that it has become much like the other gay websites out there. I apologise for my excitement that has led to my misinterpretation of the website.

By: foxtrot

foxtrot — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:32:12 +0000

Ooh I missed this wee ruckus, love a bit of healthy debate. I love the pictures you used – shouldha stuck this one in there too though: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/oct/02/menstruation-feminist-activists

By: coussin de Lyon

coussin de Lyon — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:38:18 +0000

Oui oui, see you all at the TMC party, we are all friends blabla. About saturday though, If you knew how happy i was when i got the FB invite weeks ago- i was like ‘YESSS!!! another of those amazing parties!’!! So i’m really looking forward to it…

Now, to Jam roly poly, i really wonder what a Number 8 lady is. I will ask BumBra when i see her on saturday! I’m sure she knows what it stands for. xx

By: BumBra

BumBra — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:00:54 +0000

coussin de Lyon_ oh la la ;p

see you all period lovers/haters on Saturday!
I am not on one ;/
ha ha xxx

By: Jam roly poly

Jam roly poly — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:03:09 +0000

Coussin, will you be my Number 8 lady ;-) ??

By: Fairy Cake

Fairy Cake — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:13:45 +0000

Coussin…you naughty lady.

Let’s just call it quits yah? TMC encouarge debate…it’s important to air these things out. We need to know what’s good/bad so we can keep getting better, right?

Now that’s all sorted, I would just like to say : Saturday is going to rule HARD. I hope you all can come, regardless of your stance on the period pictures. Amazing artists, great tunes, and phitt girlies.. We all friends! Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!

By: coussin de Lyon

coussin de Lyon — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:55:06 +0000

I think the pictures are very crudely spot on and very arty and close my idea of what pictures i would put to illustrate such an article had i written it myself, but i must have a dark mind, i mean, i love the Scene in Anatomy of Hell with the tampon in the glass. And also,. to TMC, there is a lot more one can do sexually when both of us are on a period. Let me be crude one last time here if i may. Firslty, there is the infamous me wanting to go down on a woman regardless of if she is on or not on a period, and also being so sexual like BumBra puts it when on a period that anal sex comes on my mind a lot, not on yours? Ha, well, dears… :)

By: devils food cake

devils food cake — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:06:18 +0000

ooh. ouch. custard, i appreciate your opinion, but i am appalled at your apparent separation of butch women (or non-femme women) and ‘sophistication’ or ‘progressive, stylish and suer-talented’. FYI – a woman can be sophisticated, stylish, progressive and super-talented as well as being – shock horror – butch. it’s a very closed-minded view to take that those qualities are exclusive to femme women.

on a parallel, femme women can also wear dungarees and look like someone’s uncle. just sayin’.

also, i resent the idea that to be original, you must only pander to the ideals of one group of gay women. the group of us that run tmc are as varied as – yes – the rainbow. there’s no way we’d exclude ourselves from the audience of something we created!