Vanessa Marin and Xander Marin break down the numbers on period sex. A period lasts about five days with 2–3 tablespoons of total blood loss. Most penetrative sex lasts 5–10 minutes, not 30. The math shows less blood is involved than most people think.
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About five days.
2 to 3 tablespoons.
30 minutes.
About 5 to 10 minutes.
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Average cycle lasts about five days. The average amount of blood lost during.
Those full five days.
During those full five days because there is menstrual fluid contains other fluids other than just blood. But the amount of blood that gets released during that time is 2 to 3 tablespoons.
That's less than a quarter of a cup. Think about what a quarter of a cup measure is.
Okay, let's use 3 tablespoons.
So 2/3 of a quarter of a cup.
And let's be really generous here and say that the average amount of time time that people have is 30 minutes, which is insane. We ran the numbers and it's actually more like five to ten.
Yeah, we're meaning penetrative sex.
Yeah, let's just say 30 minutes you're having sex. So, okay, that's three tablespoons divided by five days, divided by.