“Not saying it was the case here, and no doubt some will find this advice sexist somehow, but ladies you need to stay out of the ocean when it’s that time of the month.”
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I remember being taught that as a teenager: And it was told to me by someone who was clear about it applying in the water AS WELL as on land.
Never, ever, ever, EVER go out in the water when on your menstrual cycle or anywhere a wild animal can pick up your scent.
I did a lot of what I would call stupid things while growing up; never wanted to actually risk my life, however, and dearly headed that bit of instruction.
As I mentioned previously, I was advised it by someone who would know what he was talking about....
I was even a teenager, actually, when I first was warned about the menstrual cycle casing mayhem and death...
I was I guess, on my first Girl Scout camping trip...
There was a male guide who insisted on the troop knowing of this issue and he strongly suggested those who may either start or be currently on their menstrual cycles to STAY HOME and enjoy a trip the next year.
He clearly did not want any unneeded drama.
I think the reason it stuck in my mind was that I wondered about the smell of blood and forest animals....
At that time of my life I was thinking about getting home from the camping trip and didn’t want ANYONE to put me in any position of possibly not making it home.
Years earlier, my dad had to pick me up from a camp because I wasn’t able to ‘relax enough,’ and the adults figured I just wasn’t a ‘forest lover.’ Even at that young age I just didn’t have the ability to just relax in the forest.
LOLOL