Talk:Red Sea

RFV discussion: December 2021
Rfv-sense: Chuck Entz (talk) 15:57, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
 * 1)  (A given amount of) blood discharged through a woman's vagina when she is on her period.


 * "Red Sea" is definitely a popular euphemism for a woman's period (and "parting the Red Sea" is having sex during this time), but I doubt the plural is used, so maybe a Proper noun heading would be better. Also I don't see how it's ever a "given amount" as claimed: that would mean someone was specifying the amount, in millilitres or whatever! Equinox ◑ 16:24, 15 December 2021 (UTC)


 * I found one cite that's in this vein (Citations:Red Sea); otherwise, most of what I found is not related to menstruation but is either literal (people saying that swimming in the actual Red Sea was erotic, or that they had sex in the actual Red Sea, etc) or likening thighs etc to the Red Sea in that you part them. - -sche (discuss) 04:36, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
 * It will be a while before I get to this one as I slowly make my way through the current mountain of requests, but I will say that I have heard this one used very often (often enough to be considered common usage), although usually in woman-only groups. In my experience, it generally means a particularly heavy period, such as that experienced by a perimenopausal woman or a woman who has recently given birth. Kiwima (talk) 05:35, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I know it's real, I'm just having a devil of a time finding citations. This,that found [//en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Citations%3ARed_Sea&type=revision&diff=64971511&oldid=64969850 another cite that's probably menstrual], so we only need one more. I found one that's referring to [//en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Citations%3ARed_Sea&type=revision&diff=64985132&oldid=64985128 blood, but from injury, not menstruation]; the old New English Dictionary has this broader sense, btw, at sea, with other such cites:
 * b. Hyperbolically, a great quantity of liquid, esp. (in figurative context) of blood. So, allusively, Red Sea [see 2], with reference to blood or wine.
 * 1598, Chapman, Hero & Leander, iii. 323: And all this while the red sea of her blood Ebd with Leander.
 * 1646, Quarles, Sheph. Oracles, vii, 83: Oyl-steep'd Anchovie, landed from his brine, Came freely swimming in red seas of wine.
 * 1821, Scott, K[...]., i: We will have one of Friar Bacon's pupils. . to conjure them [such troublesome thoughts] away.—Or, what say you to laying them in a glorious red sea of claret, my noble guest?
 * 1864, Lowell, Fireside Trav., 219: The ghost of a creed. . may be laid, after all, only in a Red Sea of blood.
 * - -sche (discuss) 08:42, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
 * - -sche (discuss) 08:42, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

Indeed, it is much easier to find mentions than uses, but I think this is cited. Kiwima (talk) 07:49, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 19:51, 30 December 2021 (UTC)