Blood-bound Handfasting

[Heka]

... that a few drops of menstrual blood, will bind a man to a woman and act as a fertility type thing...

I don't see any fertility in menstrual blood. Menstrual blood is almost the opposite of fertility. I mean yes it generally means your reproductive system is working, but literally means you failed at fertility that month. Children as a sign of lines bonding yes, but not menstrual blood. Any who that's OT


Blood to symbolize the sacrifice you make in that relationship maybe Shahaku? If it seems like the right thing to both of you, do it. That tends to be my outlook. If it feels right, chances are it is.

[monsno_leedra]

I don't see any fertility in menstrual blood. Menstrual blood is almost the opposite of fertility. I mean yes it generally means your reproductive system is working, but literally means you failed at fertility that month. Children as a sign of lines bonding yes, but not menstrual blood. Any who that's OT


Blood to symbolize the sacrifice you make in that relationship maybe Shahaku? If it seems like the right thing to both of you, do it. That tends to be my outlook. If it feels right, chances are it is.

Still off topic

Menstrual blood ties back into the blood issue of feeding blood to the ground and producing crops and fertility as a sacrifice for a good harvest. It also ties into the idea of a women being most fertile during or shortly after the menstrual cycle and by placing her blood into his drink promising her fertile ground as a place for his seed and fertilization of her egg. Which ties into the idea of the egg and unrealized potential for life. Which ties back to the menstrual blood and offering of her egg to him. Got to remember it had a lot to do with folk magics and folk beliefs.

[Heka]

Still off topic

Menstrual blood ties back into the blood issue of feeding blood to the ground and producing crops and fertility as a sacrifice for a good harvest. It also ties into the idea of a women being most fertile during or shortly after the menstrual cycle and by placing her blood into his drink promising her fertile ground as a place for his seed and fertilization of her egg. Which ties into the idea of the egg and unrealized potential for life. Which ties back to the menstrual blood and offering of her egg to him. Got to remember it had a lot to do with folk magics and folk beliefs.

Still OT

Which is all valid. But it isn't logical to me to use dead blood for fertility. Of any kind.

[monsno_leedra]

Still OT

Which is all valid. But it isn't logical to me to use dead blood for fertility. Of any kind.

To continue to OT

I guess it begs the question is menstrual blood actually dead blood? Yes the content within it might be perceived as waste or potentially unwanted but is it, ie the blood, dead? Even potentially how long must the content carried from the body be outside the body before it is considered as "Dead"? Figure "Sperm" can last for a limited amount of time outside the body before it dies yet still perform it's biological function if it penetrates and gains contact with an egg.

It's a sticking point for certain and from what I recall the "Drink" would have to be consumed quickly from the time the menstrual blood was taken and added to it to ensure it was active and potent. You couldn't take blood and let it sit for any amount of time and use it later, so it had to be "Body temperature" more or less. But as I said above the males were not to informed in that type of practice as it was passed down to our sisters by our mothers, grandmothers and aunts. We were just warned not to drink things or eat certain things. Well unless the women in the family said it was ok according to my older relatives but that was changing when I hit my teens. Though some of the older aunts and such still warned us about drinking any thing offered to us boys.

[Heka]

How long it's dead is a good question. But I don't think you'll get an easy answer. I've never thought about it before myself. As someone trying to get pregnant, the moment that blood exits my body it's of no use to me. I guess currently I consider it dead as soon as menstruation starts.

If I was avoiding pregnancy on the other hand, menstruation would be a cause for celebration haha.

[monsno_leedra]

How long it's dead is a good question. But I don't think you'll get an easy answer. I've never thought about it before myself. As someone trying to get pregnant, the moment that blood exits my body it's of no use to me. I guess currently I consider it dead as soon as menstruation starts.

If I was avoiding pregnancy on the other hand, menstruation would be a cause for celebration haha.

All I can say there is many women and more than a few doctors have said if you want fruit of the womb make sure your man doesn't wear Fruit of the Loom under wear. Holding the Teste close to the body the way the fruit of the loom undergarment does causes the count to be lower which reduces the numbers of available soldiers to get the job done so to speak. But that is going way off topic from blood bound hand-fastings he he he

[Jembru]

How long it's dead is a good question. But I don't think you'll get an easy answer. I've never thought about it before myself. As someone trying to get pregnant, the moment that blood exits my body it's of no use to me. I guess currently I consider it dead as soon as menstruation starts.

If I was avoiding pregnancy on the other hand, menstruation would be a cause for celebration haha.

Yeah, I'm with you on this one. The only time menstrual blood is a sign of fertility in my mind is when a young lady has her first period, signalling she's now physically able to make a baby.

I'm the opposite of you and actually developed a medical condition because of my fear of getting pregnant (some might remember that I spoke about it a few years ago in the adult section). Anyway, as part of my therapy I mapped my cycle and also use those dipper tests for women who want to get pregnant, that tell you when you're ovulating. I avoid any kind of bedroom behaviour on those days (I do use contraception but I'm scared of the 0.01% chance that it fails, they're not good enough odds!), and for me it's just 4 days of the month and they're as far from the bleeding days as you can get. So, long and far too revealing story short, I agree, menstrual blood is the opposite of fertile blood.

[Heka]

Yeah, I'm with you on this one. The only time menstrual blood is a sign of fertility in my mind is when a young lady has her first period, signalling she's now physically able to make a baby.

I'm the opposite of you and actually developed a medical condition because of my fear of getting pregnant (some might remember that I spoke about it a few years ago in the adult section). Anyway, as part of my therapy I mapped my cycle and also use those dipper tests for women who want to get pregnant, that tell you when you're ovulating. I avoid any kind of bedroom behaviour on those days (I do use contraception but I'm scared of the 0.01% chance that it fails, they're not good enough odds!), and for me it's just 4 days of the month and they're as far from the bleeding days as you can get. So, long and far too revealing story short, I agree, menstrual blood is the opposite of fertile blood.

Lol I could talk about natural fertility for daayyzzz

[Shahaku]

I can add that I know there are magical properties to menstrual blood as ritual blood. I think that's partly because it's the only blood that doesn't have to be taken from the body, your body freely gives it to you to use. One of the things we talked about with the blood binding ritual was that if one of us was menstruating during the ritual time, it could be really powerful to use. But on the flip side we're smearing it on each other and bacteria issues etc. So it was vetoed. But it did come up that if we ever felt blood was a necessary part of a ritual, using menstrual blood was a good option.