Anatomy lols

[Vitamin Crack]

A few weeks ago, and I have no idea how this came up, my boyfriend revealed that he thought girls pee out of their v****a. Actually I think we were discussing tampons and he asked how I peed with a tampon in. I asked him if he had heard of the urethra? And he was like "Yeah...doesn't it flow into the v****a?"
"You think the urethra is like a separate tube coming off the v****a?"
"Yeah..."
"...oh...that's not right at all."

I mean I was shocked that he didn't know but when I thought about it, it's not exactly something that intuitive. About a year ago, I had to explain this to my own mother, 45 years of age, didn't know she peed out of a separate hole! And well my boyfriend grew up without any female figure (his mum died when he was little) so he just had no knowledge about so much female stuff. And I don't think they teach this sort of stuff in sex ed because it's not directly related to sex.

Also something I didn't know about guys but was recently informed...when guys poop, they almost invariably pee at the same time as well. And I was like "but can't you control them separately?" I was told they can pee without pooping, but it's like impossible to poop without peeing. Which as I understand is different for girls because I can definitely control both those functions separately.

And that kegels for guys involves working out the muscles which also tighten your a**s. Because I mean for girls, you don't have to involve the bum at all in kegels as I understand it.



So any other points of anatomy about the opposite sex you did/didn't know?  

[Arianah]

Welllll....it's sort of true and sort of not.

Yes the urethra is separate from the v****a, but barely. The distinction between the labia minora and the actual vaginal walls are hard to define. When catheterizing a woman, the lips are not only spread to view the urethra, but the vaginal vestibule as well. Some women are further in and up than others making catheterization difficult. I will say this, however, the meatus is low enough down that tampon insertion does not affect it, (which we all knew LOL) but sometimes diva cups give enough pressure to cause leakage.

Men...I kind of knew that by default. Thanks to the job. My spinal cord patients tend to invert. So they can't really point their p***s into the toilet when they poop. I've been peed on so many times I've learned to stand to the side and only offer enough support that they don't fall off the pot. If they protrude enough, I will hold a urinal over it while they poop. LOL

Now guys who have no sensation down there at all, we have to use medications and other stuff to get them to poop. Those guys don't tend to pee at the same time, but they also can't get up into a toilet either, so we lay water proof pads on top and underneath them. The top pads are always dry after their bowel programs (except one, but he leaked all the freaking time and always had a boner).  

[Arianah]

Oh, the meatus being so internal is also why women who have been subjected to female circumcision are so prone to infection, because after stitching up the vaginal opening, the urine can not drain effectively leaving a dark moist area for bacteria to grow.

I highly recommend every woman taking a mirror and trying to find her meatus. It's not as easy as it seems but gives you a leg up (pun intended) if you ever do need catheterized, to talk your medical providers through where to find it. No woman has it in the same place. Generally same area, yes, exact same place...nope.  

[Vitamin Crack]

Wow, I honestly never knew that was the case for some women.

But having checked myself, I can distinctly see the urethra opening just slightly above the vaginal opening.  

[Arianah]

You are one lucky lady and if you ever end up hospitalized, your nurses will love you.

We had one lady that had multiple tumors and skin tags all over her body. Even in her bits and pieces. The anatomy was so pocked and flapped that it was like she had 3 or for sets of labia and had multiple areas that looked like a meatus but would dead end. She was a b***h to cath. Sometimes it took three separate nurses trying three different times each to actually drain her bladder.  

[Tenacious Travis]

[Tenacious Travis]

also, "meatus" is a funny word.

and peeing when pooping has something to do with the male prostate, doesn't it?  

[Lass Kyon]

[LeRaven]

meatus always reminds me of accoustic meatus


i've only really taken animal anatomy but i mean the male parts are male parts right?!

also MALES HAVE VERY NARROW URETHRAS WHICH IS WHY MALE CATS ARE MORE PRONE TO HAVING URINARY CRYSTALS BLOCK IT AND IT'S AN EMERGENCY SITUATION


 

[Tenacious Travis]

 

[Arianah]

[Frizzzz]

I only figured that the urethra is seperate from the v****a a few months ago, I too thought the urethra ended just inside the opening of the v****a. If he hadn't I would have figured when I started using tampons recently (I know, I took my time getting around to it).  

[Arianah]

Naw. It's way too small of an opening for a tampon to even be an issue. It's like trying to stuff a bat up your nose. So not gonna happen it won't even hurt...well unless you jam it. But then again, a bat is gonna hurt then too.