[Brandye]

I was 12 when I got my first period. After the first day of wearing a pad all day and thinking of nothing other than what was happening to me, I discovered that a fresh pad at bedtime really felt good and began playing with myself. It took only a few times with the pad until I began to like to fall asleep with something held between my legs. It was usually an old teddy bear. Who got very spotty. I was washing him almost as often as my knickers.

I got many pleasant feelings but never quite an orgasm, though I did not know the difference at that point. Several months later, shortly after my 13th birthday, I was baby-sitting with a four year old and a two year old - and having a period. They had a large plastic chicken that they could ride on. I tried it and had to drape my skirt to sit on it. I was bigger and so I could only rock back and forth. The rocking was rubbing the pad against me and it only took several minutes until I had a full blown orgasm - with a chicken and with two small boys watching!

I still prefer sleeping with something pressed in my crotch. No longer a teddy bear but a small firm pillow that is not really different.