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I wonder if the reason we have so much etiquette around pretending humans don't have (surprisingly informative!) scents is to avoid devastating teenage girls when they get their periods and still feel like the world might end if anyone finds out
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in middle school i used to volunteer at the library with a girl i thought was cute and/but sometimes she smelled bad and i never knew how to talk about it. it was a very specific smell i have since smelled like ~10 other times, always on women was it... period smell???
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I remember being mortified when my mom would walk with my brothers past the bra section in stores and she gently explained that she was absolutely going to teach them about female puberty too, just like she taught me about male puberty
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yeah, books and awkward (for me) conversations lmao my grandma's mother didn't, so my grandma thought she was dying when she got her period 😢
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