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[–]deftoneslettuce 5 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 5 fun -  (3 children)

This isn't really a culture thing but I track my bi cycling with my menstrual cycle. Obviously this isn't really possible for men but it would be cool to have stuff with moons, kind of like a way of getting back at people who say it's a phase, like a moon phase.

[–]PenseePansy[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Re: bi-cycling-- I've wanted to write a post on this too, actually! Curious about people's experience with it. Would you mind sharing yours? It's connected to your menstrual cycle, then?

[–]deftoneslettuce 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

For me it happens to sync with my period, and I get my period every six weeks.

The weeks before, during, and after my period, I prefer women. The three weeks after that, I prefer men. I just so happen to prefer feminine women and masculine men, but overall I like all women.

The week I'm ovulating is usually the last week I prefer men, and it hits me hard, as in I just cannot stop thinking about them lmao and I'm constantly aroused. It all dies down and my preferences flip the next week.

I get intense mood swings in the week before my period, and I don't know how much of that is attributed to changing hormone levels, so I'm not sure if that's linked to the sudden change from obsessing over men to preferring women completely.

It's strange thinking about it and I wonder if it's all coincidence or if I'm making it up, but this has happened for a few years before I started tracking the cycle with my.. cycle.

[–]PenseePansy[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So interesting! This is, as that GIF with Phoebe from Friends put it, "brand-new information!" (At least to me-- never heard of "bi-cycling" tracking with menstrual cycling before!) Particularly because it's one of those phenomena that's bi-specific; the whole cycling/fluctuation in our attraction to the sexes really has no parallel among monosexuals, I don't think (they can experience increased or diminished desire, of course, but only ever for one sex, which seems like quite a different matter to me). And I feel that the ways in which we are clearly "our own thing" (rather than the popular misunderstanding of us as "half-and-half") are especially important to emphasize.