00:00The birthing of a blood diamond.
00:02Shark week.
00:03Aunt Flo.
00:04Hey YouTube!
00:05It's me, Lucy, and today we're talking about the red coats are coming!
00:09Periods.
00:10To be very technical, the uterine lining just sheds, comes out the vagina opening, and it
00:18looks like blood, but it's not blood, right?
00:22This is a very interesting topic for me to be talking about because it's not very on
00:26brand for what I normally discuss on YouTube.
00:28But then I took a step back and I realized that around 50% of the world's population
00:33will have or has already gotten their period.
00:36So at the end of the day, it's not really like this top secret topic.
00:41It's just a topic.
00:42So here I am telling the world I, Lucy Fink, have my period.
00:48That's out there.
00:48Periods are a very interesting story for me to discuss because I actually got my period
00:55quite late in my life.
00:56I was in 10th grade, about 15, and I wanted my period so badly.
01:03I asked Santa for my period for Christmas.
01:06I asked my parents if I could have my period.
01:07At camp, I used to draw in my underwear with red marker and tell my counselor, I got my period.
01:14And she was like, no, you didn't, Lucy, that's red marker.
01:17And I was like, oh.
01:19Well, I think I have cramps.
01:20I just could not wrap my brain around the fact that these other girls around me were getting
01:24it and I wasn't.
01:25And I would sit at home and I would think, why has this higher figure in heaven above
01:30not blessed me yet with that red monthly flow?
01:33And then I realized everyone's on a different cycle and it comes for everyone when their
01:38body's ready for it.
01:39I wasn't ready for it until January 7th, 2008.
01:43And on that blessed day, it was in the middle of fourth and fifth period, I went to the bathroom
01:48and I sat on the toilet and as I was wiping, I noticed a little bit of period.
01:54And I called my mom and I'm like, mom.
01:58She arrived.
01:59She is here.
02:00She has arrived.
02:02Aunt Flo has come to town.
02:04All of my friends knew about this because everyone knew how excited I was to get her.
02:09I have wall posts from 2008 from some of my best friends saying like, yeah, woo, congrats,
02:14woo.
02:14And it got so out of hand, like friends congratulating me and sending me smiley faces and it just got
02:20so out of hand that my brother wrote on my wall and was like, Lou, it's really weird that
02:25your friends are congratulating you publicly.
02:27And he was right.
02:28It might have been weird, but everyone celebrates in their own ways.
02:31Now if we fast forward to 2017, so it's been about nine years since I've had my period,
02:38I'm not all that excited about her anymore.
02:40On the one hand, because I'm a sexually active person, I'm very excited when I get my period
02:45and I'm like, yeah, we got past teen pregnancy.
02:48But on the other hand, I'm like, oh, four days of this?
02:52Pads and tampons, another hot topic.
02:55I think pads make me feel like I'm just sitting in my own filth.
02:58This is really graphic now.
02:59This is getting graphic.
03:00But I will always remember the first time I put a tampon in, not going to lie, my best
03:05friend put it in for me.
03:06It was like a bathroom experience at a bar mitzvah.
03:09And she showed me how to push it in.
03:11She showed me the right angle because a lot of people don't know the proper angle.
03:15A lot of people try to just stick it straight up, but you really need to tilt it a little.
03:19She was like, relax, relax.
03:21You'll see that it's not actually painful if you are not clenching so tightly.
03:24So then I just relaxed and she pushed it up and then we released the trigger together.
03:30And then I had a tampon in and I was so excited about it.
03:33As for period sex, I think you do you.
03:36I would say it's all about your comfort level and your partner's comfort level.
03:39You guys need to decide together if the fact that she's flowing changes the dynamic of
03:45the situation.
03:45And if not, then totally just do it like normal.
03:50If you're a young person and you have yet to get your period, don't freak out.
03:55I was freaking out and I would have loved if someone who was a little older had made
03:58a video saying, don't freak out.
04:00I think that everybody's body is different and you should speak to your GYN.
04:03I want you to take anything away from this video.
04:06It is that you should be completely open and willing to talk about your period with anyone
04:11that wants to help you.
04:12Whether it's a friend, a parent, a guidance counselor, I'm here for you in your period time of need.
04:20Will you and where your doctor leave you in your period?
04:20That if you can take anything different from him in your period or two, try to scrap your
04:20topics, go ahead and
