Sexercise
This contributor tries to break a sweat in order to push out her lost tampon.
The guy I was dating last semester asked me to hang out one night and — after a couple of hours of playful touching and a steady stream of innuendo — wanted to end it with good-night sex.
Unfortunately, I was on my period so I told him no. Sure enough with his charismatic persuasiveness, he was able to change my mind. When things started to get heated, I asked him if I should take my tampon out, but he just told me to leave it in. Of course this didn’t sound right and I was worried it would get lost. He “promised me” it wouldn’t get stuck up inside me.Flash forward to thirty minutes later when I go to the bathroom to take the tampon out and I can’t find it. Mortified, I came out of the bathroom and explained the situation to my guy. Since he was obviously a tampon expert (note ladies, that few men are), he convinced me that if I did some exercises it would naturally push its way out in no time. He told me to do jumping jacks, squats, lunges, and to run around the apartment for awhile. Without question, I listened.
Five minutes later, I went to check—still no tampon. He told me to keep doing more lunges. I started crying and convinced myself it would be stuck inside me forever and that I’d have to face the embarrassing visit to the emergency room to get it removed.
When he realized I was crying, he confessed that he was lying about doing exercises. He had no clue whether they would help and just told me to do them as a joke (ed note: that’s cold!). He said he didn’t think I was gullible enough to do it, but couldn’t help himself once I started to go along with.
Even though he was a huge jerk during this situation, he made up for it by helping me fish it out with tweezers and a flashlight. After this horrible experience, I’ve sworn off sex on my period.
