samhasstories
Literotica Guru
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Dictionaries track usage. Languages evolve that way, for better or worse (worse). Once a usage is common enough - even if it started as malaprops - it'll eventually get in there.What is the world coming to? Apparently even the OED lists "octopi" as acceptable.
Anyway, on topic, a lot of men will be put off by descriptions of periods. I've seen fully grown men who fancy themselves mature basically gag at the very mention. It isn't pretty. But it will happen.
But that's on them. If it's central to your story, you should include it. It's a normal bodily function that happens regularly to a huge chunk of the population. If people are uncomfortable with that, that's their problem.
I have a very conveniently self-serving way of looking at other people's opinions that I think applies here: people who judge me for the things I'm into are, by definition, people whose opinions I don't really need to worry about. If you're writing a story that, at least in part, is about the experience of dealing with your period, and that's the story you want to write, then the people who run and hide at the mention of 'icky period stuff' simply aren't your audience.