Tracie Morrissey just finished a video compilation of menstruation scenes from Hollywood movies. Not only do us men not get periods, we also don’t “get” periods. Like, what is a period? I asked her…
Tracie Morrissey just finished a video compilation of menstruation scenes from Hollywood movies. Not only do us men not get periods, we also don’t “get” periods. Like, what is a period? I asked her…
Street Carnage: So, let me get this straight. Your body spends about 20 days making a house for a baby and if no babies move in, it discharges the house out of your vagina and starts a new one?
Tracie: What’s the question?
What’s it like to menstruate?
It feels like you have to take a giant shit- and then you do- and then some blood comes out for a few days.
Is it red or brown?
It varies in color.
What was it like the first time you got it?
The first time I got my period, I thought I shit my pants, because I farted, and it felt wet, and when I pulled my pants down, there was a big brown mess but it was just blood. It still smelled bad though.
Does PMS continue into the M-ing part or does it stop the second the blood appears?
I don’t know the difference between PMS and my normal behavior. I generally tend to feel bloated and irritable. and “cramps” just feels like you have to take a majorly urgent, painful poop. I have issues with regularity so I get cramps like once a week at least. The only hormonal or behavioral difference I notice when I have my period is that I’m more interested in having sex.
How long did it take you to make this video?
The video took me like two or three weeks to make, because I had to watch so many movies after I’d done my research and compiled my list of films. Not all, but many of them had a sort of feminist slant to them, which at times was cool, and then at other times just meant that I had to sit through two hours of some crappy art house ’90s indie movie that just rambled on and on and reinforced the same kind of stereotypes about women that the filmmakers were trying to rebel against.
Like what?
“Female Perversions.” I’m probably supposed to like it because it’s about sexual empowerment, but it really just makes its female characters seem like aliens instead of humans, which I think negates the whole point of feminism. But whatever, I get it, it’s supposed to be weird. Guys would probably like it because there’s a lot of vaginas in it. I guess I’m pro-woman, but somewhat anti-vagina. I don’t mind my own vagina, but I really don’t want to look at Tilda Swinton’s for two hours. But I have to say, that of all of these films, I felt like only one of them, Towelhead accurately portrayed what menstrual blood actually looks like.
It’s kind of chunky right?
Yeah.
because it’s not just blood. It’s the whole baby house.
It looks like soggy raisins sometimes. Not all the time, but some days. And sometimes it’s mucus-y. But it really varies. Some months it’s a light flow and sort of brownish, other months it’s super heavy and looks like strawberry jelly without the seeds.
How much would you have to be paid to eat a stranger’s?
Oh-
Like four tablespoons and you don’t know if it’s the Queen of England or a bag lady’s.
There isn’t enough money in the world. One time in college, I saw a pair of my underpants on the floor that were absolutely soaked in period blood, and I quickly snatched them up, embarrassed that they must’ve fallen out of my laundry bag. But when I grabbed them, the stench wafted to my face and assaulted me, and I immediately realized that they were not my panties.
I didn’t know, until then, that period stink was specific to an individual. I literally started gagging. So I would never, ever taste someone else’s period blood. Unless, for some reason, I accidentally swallowed some kind of fatal poison I needed to puke up.
dumb
<3 Tracie!
the pussy contains more mystery locked inside it than even a super massive black hole
omg this was amazing
Does the vagina hurt when you’re on your period?
Like if you were to have sex during your period would it hurt?
Seriously, I’m wondering this for real.
Women are like the sands of eternity forever shrouded in mysteries.
aw damn everything i never wanted to know
if you use a diva cup your period blood doesn’t smell at all
i was gonna watch porn before this and now im not gonna. gross
Thanks! I love tracie from jez. but hate jez sometimes. I’ve realized as I get older, the more grossed out I am by my own period, which is weird. I feel sort of like-jesus, this messy, wet annoyance again? Still? Since I am 13? Everytime I pee I have to change my ‘pon and stick my fingers up there and I am over it. And I always leak onto my panties. But of course menopause and losing it will feel hideous and depressing I’m sure.
for ‘smelly’,
sometimes my vagina hurts, the best way to explain is that it feels like tiny weights attached to fish hooks all over the labia. a heavy feeling almost like an awful bruise that is remedied by sitting down and taking valium and percocet, zoning out and watching a movie or reading a book.
the only time it’s ever hurt for me to have sex during my period is if it’s in a position where the penis would come too close to hitting my cervix. (note: this fucking hurts anyway)
and you’re correct, ‘Smelly’. we females are the sand of eternity forever shrouded in mystery so don’t forget it. X
any more questions?
ps. tracy mentions menstrual blood smelling bad/funky. i’ve only ever noticed this with old blood, like if someone left a pad in a waste bin. i’ve never experienced blood that smelled funky when changing a tampon or anything like that. i was going to say “fresh” but that’s weird. the nasty smell must be a result of the blood oxidizing.
wicked women puttin period blood in stew
don’t that make the stew witches brew?
I pray for the 85 who ain’t got a clue
How could they now what the fuck they never knew?
Ouch!
generally young women don’t know shit about their cycles, and also think they don’t have PMS (but fellas, try marking down the dates of their various emotional meltdowns and see if they exclusively coincide with the few days before the period).
women are so stupid!
I like screwing chicks when they’re on the rag. It feels like a strange type of lube. It’s like slick and rough at the same time. They should make a lube that emulates that. I should make a lube that emulates that. Streetboners should make a lube that emulates that. Raglube? P.M.Slide? That Glide of the Month? Whatever. This is gross.
oh so thats what it is! I thought my dick is so big that I injure them during sex. Now I know!
@Smelly No sex doesn’t hurt at all. Really it’s just like having extra lubrication, but it’s red. Some girls get hornier on their periods even.
The scent awakens some sort of primitive instinct in me. If the scent could talk, it would say, “It’s time to mate.”
I once dumped a girl because I thought she was juicing while we were out to dinner. Turns out she had dropped a piece of pizza in her lap. Life if full of tragic misunderstanding.
@hunk well you aren’t going to spread that seed far if you wait that long
Fuuuuuuck, I’m fucking drunk and just agreed to go with my boring friend to get our pussies waxed next week. Not only do I not give a shit about waxing my divinely beautiful vadge, I do NOT want to go ANYWHERE with her stupid ass. The thing is, I don’t actually give a fuck right now, but I know I’m going to wake up in the morning slapping myself in the face, resenting and dreading it. At least my boyfriend will like the wax job, maybe? God fucking dammit, who cares. It is literally impossible for a dick to be worshiped any more fervently than I worship this dude’s dick. Our current thing is filming ourselves fucking, then sucking each other off as we watch it. I recommend this to all vain assholes: I always knew I was a vain asshole, but I never figured out that this was an ideal way for people like me to get off until I tried this like a month ago.
this is the most uncomfortable work of genius. uncomfortable, but genius.
My friend does it on her period and leaves the tampon in.
Regretsy’s comment started out as boring inane shit, but it turned into fucking GOLD
@Regretsy; I feel you on the filming, then watching it while we diddle, fiddle, and suck cycle. It’s quite nice.
Raging bloodstorm.
chicks always smell like potent vagina when they have their period. I’m surprised no one’s invented a period scent neutralizer, like Febreze for menstrual bleeds. maybe tag body spray could come up with one and call it “Rag Tag”.
You learn something new everyday. Sometimes while gagging.
how come it doesn’t get on me hardly at all as it coats her region?
@brenda v
“I feel sort of like-jesus, this messy, wet annoyance again?”
i read this completely wrong the first time
Well that’s a good thing to know.
Hahahaha. No more period excuse.
The idea of shoving dry cotton up there is like nails on a chalk board to me. I’m gay, so I’m super in the dark about her peculiar institution. Are some people really saying the period blood can be used as a lube? Like it gets on the dick and sheets? Does the girl take the tampon out like discreetly before having sex? Do you wake up in the middle of the night to change it? What does a tampon feel like up there all day?
A compilation of period pieces is not complete without this classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpfVYMLXETc