Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site ahuta.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ahuta!ecl From: ecl@ahuta.UUCP (e.leeper) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: celebration Message-ID: <227@ahuta.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 16:29:31 EST Article-I.D.: ahuta.227 Posted: Fri Dec 14 16:29:31 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 04:39:20 EST References: <1037@hcrvx1.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 25 REFERENCES: <1037@hcrvx1.UUCP> Regarding celebrating menarche/first nocturnal emission (not to be confused with "primus noctis" :-) and I probably racked up the spelling, but I couldn't resist)... Anyway, back to the point. When we lived in California, I remember one woman we know talking about her son and how she couldn't wait until he had his first wet dream. At the time this seemed odd (translate that, I never heard of it before), but it does make some sense. Presumably, he would at least have been told what was going on. Germaine Greer points out that women who never carry a purse other times always take one when they go to a public restroom at "those times" because they won't carry a (wrapped) tampon where someone might see it. Frankly, I love the bit in MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE ("Mr. Creosote" sequence) where the woman, desperate for an excuse to leave the restaurant, says that she's having a rather heavy period and doesn't want to start bleeding on the seats. Evelyn C. Leeper ==> Note new net address: ...ihnp4!ahuta!ecl (Mail sent to my old address will be forwarded temporarily.)