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For the attention of the Female user base. Period related questions.
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iGav said:
Actually lesbians are less likely to sync due to the higher levels of testosterone. in any lesbian relationship there is one partner who is more bossy and dominant than the other, she will have the higher levels, hold true for gay couple as well.
Periods are considered regular and healthy on a 2-8 week cycle which can fluctuate by one week either way. Health, Age and even climate affects period cycles.
And yes females do sync.
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Lau
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i almost made a post questioning leareth's claim, but figured that since i'm not terribly knowledgeable on all things lesbian, he could be right (didn't want to be the ignorant one)... glad to see my instinct wasn't wrong on that one! 
devilot said:I've personally seen the period syncing first hand. My high school wrestling team had 6 of us women; and ya can bet we synced up.
this would so take iSync to another level...
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iGav said:
I've shared houses/flats/halls with women over the years and obviously it doesn't always happen or all the women in the world would be moody cows at the same time
My mother, sister and I shared identical cycles though (there was never enough ice cream in the freezer that week!), 4 of the 6 of us in our 'corridor' in halls did at University and we weren't to start with and it's happened with another girl I shared a house with a few years back.
I wonder if it has something to do with how many others there are in your group. In devilot's case where people are in a team, there's likely some socialising outside training so there's a core of friends. When I shared an office with one other woman, we synched. Now I share an open-plan office with 20 women within 20m and we haven't.
I work with two girls in our little design studio, and they've synced up. Given that they spend about seven hours a day sat a matter of feet apart, if they were going to sync with anyone I guess it would be with each other.
I've not noticed any effects on myself, but I'll be sure to let you know if anything untoward develops.
I've not noticed any effects on myself, but I'll be sure to let you know if anything untoward develops.
May be why some of the girls doesn't sync up is because they're taking the pill? The pill would regulate the cycle to every 28 days, so the time that they would have the period depends on when they starts taking the pill rather than when other people have period.
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Lau
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Synching is possible, I had a roomate on Seasonale (pill that makes your cycle into a 3 month one, only 4 periods a year) and all of a sudden I went to 5 weeks, regular as clockwork instead of 4. And I live in a single-sex dorm here and there's definately two weeks when the trash cans in the stalls are filled with wrappers and such.
As for gettting it early, that's not unusual at all. Could be stress (although that usually makes me late), could be syncing. Early is less of a reason to worry than late, so you should be okay.
As for gettting it early, that's not unusual at all. Could be stress (although that usually makes me late), could be syncing. Early is less of a reason to worry than late, so you should be okay.
Blue Velvet said:
Which info would you like;
higher levels of testosterone,
one has higher levels than other and is more dominant or
Male gay couples have the same level difference?
There is a correlation between aggression and testosterone levels < that is a scientific fact.
Research also suggests that there is a correlation between dominance and testosterone in homosexual relationships
Now this is the a point for debate but there are two groups of lesbians: the "I dont like men thus I must be attracted to women" group and the " I find women attractive" group. the women in the second group have been exposed to a dose of testosterone during develpment in utero when it is only males that usually get it , these women are considered a female body with a masculinised brain, they tend to produce more testosterone than a normal female. and are also more likely to be in lesbian relationships. Their periods tend to be lighter, shorter and more irregular hence less likely to sync. Again this is what the research suggests.
this is not me making this up nor is it mainstream acceptance partially because it is politically incorrect to talk about differences between sexes and races. Do you remember last year when that scientist said that there is a biochemical difference between ethnic groups? its something geneticists have been aware for years. There is also a difference between men and women and between straight and gay people, biochemically. That does not make one better than the other etc.
I am willing to take a bet with any lesbian or gay couple that they will give me blood samples and I will tell them who makes the majority of the decisions in the household ( ie the bossy one) .
Blue Velvet if you would like some of the articles refs that deal with politically incorrect issue PM me I really dont want to start a war on MR. I was merely trying to explain based on when the research suggests.
Refs:
Becker, Jill B., Behavioural Endocrinology, Cambridge: MIT Press (1992)
Burr, C.I., A Separate Creation, London, New York: Bantam Press, 167-177(1996)
Cabot, Dr. Sandra, Don't Let Your Hormones Rule Your Life, Sydney, Australia: Women's Health Advisory Service (1991)
Dabbs, J. M., Testosterone, aggression and delinquency', Second International Androgen Workshop 18-20 (Feb 1995)
Diamond, Jared., The Third Chimpanzee, New York: HarperCollins (1992)
Kimura, D., 'Are men's and women's brains really different?', Canadian Psycol. 28 (2), 133-147 (1987)
Kimura, D., 'Sex, sexual orientation and sex hormones influence human cognitive function', Current Opinion in Neurobiology 6, 259-263 (1996)