"Stained’ to me means marks that don’t wash out. I.e. stains are permanent.
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Yes, same with me. That’s why I chuckle when I see hosts say that guests left bloodstains. Unless the guests had tried to wash them in hot water, the marks wouldn’t be set in and become stains.
Maybe it’s just male hosts who aren’t as accustomed as we are.
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Speaking of the difference between the way males react to things vs. females, here’s a phenomenon I noticed years ago, don’t know if other women have had the same experience. If your husband or boyfriend asks if you have a lighter, or the keys because he can’t find his, or something that may be in your handbag, and you say, “Yeah they’re in my bag”, assuming he’ll just look for them there, instead they always hand you your bag, as if there might be something embarrassingly “female” in there that they are afraid of touching or seeing. 
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This has happened several times. We have a two bedroom house we airbnb and a couple who stayed two nights, ruined the mattress cover (A GOOD reason for mattress covers), sheets and duvet with blood and other stains. I assume the had intercourse and the woman was menstruating. The second night they used the bed in the second bedroom and did the same thing. I was able to salvage the bedding from night 2 but the first night blood did not come out of the bedding. We have thought of leaving a note with a chuck bed pad. We can’t come up with a polite way to phrase the note. Perhaps we should be blunt and say, “Please use the chuck bed pad if you are having intercourse while you are menstruating.” Somehow that sounds too personal…
“If you think you might stain the linens for some reason, please be kind and make the bed with the bed pad that’s kept in the lower drawer. Our cleaner thanks you!”
Lots of reasons people might stain linens other than intercourse while menstruating. Women that bleed heavily, children or other people with incontinence, someone who’s nauseous, etc.
A more hospitable idea is a mattress pad that’s waterproof to protect the mattress. Everything else is easily washed.
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Thanks for the recommendation. I like the wording. We use a waterproof mattress pad but if the sheets are left stained for more than a day we have had no luck getting out the blood and other stains - even using peroxide and cold water and soaking and soaking. So we have to retire the sheets and use them as painting cloths, etc. Cotton sheets are very expensive.
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