Sex 12x a year?

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An embarrasing question for the ladies. If menstration comes once a month , does that mean that you will have 12 periods a year and hence have sex only 12 times a year ?

Edit : to have sex during the infertile period If a married couple wasnt ready to have a child.
 
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I really don´t understand your thinking. I think a basic biology education is more suitable than a catholic forum for this.
 
It is correct that the human menstrual cycle averages 28 days. This, however, has nothing to do with when or how often a woman can engage in sexual intercourse.
 
Oh !!! Ok what i meant was the infertile period if a married couple wasnt ready to have a child.
 
No in theory at least your only fertile for about 5 or 6 days in each cycle so the rest of the time is ‘safe’ - although unless there is a really good reason to avoid (the source of endless debate) a married couple should be open to children at any time.
 
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No in theory at least your only fertile for about 5 or 6 days in each cycle so the rest of the time is ‘safe’ - although unless there is a really good reason to avoid (the source of endless debate) a married couple should be open to children at any time.
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In any case Natural Family Planning is an option.
 
All it means is the couple has to avoid sex during the fertile window (5-6 days) each month. In theory they could have sex hundreds of times a year.
 
Thank you for this. It is the complete opposite of what i thought married sex life would be like. That is you can only have sex once a month.
 
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An embarrasing question for the ladies. If menstration comes once a month , does that mean that you will have 12 periods a year and hence have sex only 12 times a year ?

Edit : to have sex during the infertile period If a married couple wasnt ready to have a child.
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Normal period cycles can range from 21 to 36 days while menstruarion varies between 2 to 7 days. So it isn’t exactly “once a month”.

And the infertile phase is more than one day long, so a couple can have relations during all the infertile days if they want to. Some of those come towarss the beginning of the cycle and some of those days come after ovulation.

This does strike me as an odd question, is there some underlying concern?
 
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I believe the poster is asking if, practicing NFP for the purposes of avoiding pregnancy, you could only have sex during or immediately after menstruation.

If you are a minor, you really should be asking your parents about this, however, to answer the question in a bit of detail:

During menstruation, you are generally safe to have sex. The same is true for something like two or three days following menstruation. To determine when it is safe to have sex again, you have to tracks a number of different factors, such as body temperature and vaginal mucus. using those signs, you are able to determine roughly when during the month you ovulate. Around three-four days after ovulation, it becomes safe to have sex again until you go through your next menstruation cycle.

If you’re preparing for marriage, you should really take NFP classes. You learn a lot about the woman’s biology, and it helps you both prepare, together, for those periods of the month when you cannot have sex. The length of those periods is generally decided by how determined you are to avoid pregnancy. If you are absolutely determined to avoid it, your only safe windows are those days after ovulation until about two days after your period ends. If you’re only kinda trying to avoid, you could really have sex until around the time you see vaginal mucus increasing. If you’re not trying to avoid pregnancy, then you can have as much sex as you want, whenever you want. It’s something you’l have to decide together with your spouse.
 
Really? Do they only say you’re infertile during the days after ovulation?
 
I’m thinking the OP was under the impression that a women’s infertile period is only when she is having her period. That is not correct. It’s certainly more obvious at that time. But the infertile window of time is much larger than just that one time of the month.
 
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