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A member asked:

My cycle is 34 days. my period lasts 6 days. lmp ended3/08/16. everyday since then i will bleed for a few minutes. unprotected sex almost daily.

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Period housecleaning: Every time you have unprotected sex post period your activity is pushing out old residual dark blood that has been sitting in the vagina. It is apparently a unique for of vaginal housecleaning. If the bleeding is bright red, then there probably trauma to the vagina or cervix.

Answered 3/15/2016

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