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am i the only one who hadnt heard about this and kinda thinks its gross?
am i the only one who hadnt heard about this and kinda thinks its gross?
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cezza30
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SoKlueles said:
They have them over here too, only here they're called MoonCups (why I'm not sure...)
I haven't tried them, but have read comments from lots of people who seem to love them. I don't think they're for me personally, I find the thought quite icky... I mean what would you do if you were out shopping and it needed emptying?? Rinse it out in the public toilets?
vixensghost
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cezza30 said:
Perhaps for the lady astronauts?
Hell, Lisa Nowak wore diapers in public after she landed, why not a mooncup?
I'ver never seen such a nasty product before, let alone want any part of that thing.
I keep my periods and weight and stuff logged into mymonthlycycles.com and that was one of the ads
I was hoping that someone besides me thought it was a little gross.
Call me old fashioned but id prefer the old methods, tampons lol
My mom told me when she was a teenager, they used just old rags and washed them out and re used them
I feel sorry for them back then
I was hoping that someone besides me thought it was a little gross.
Call me old fashioned but id prefer the old methods, tampons lol
My mom told me when she was a teenager, they used just old rags and washed them out and re used them
I feel sorry for them back then
vixensghost
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SoKlueles said:
I'd be tearin down the curtains for rags before I'd wash out that nastiness..lol
We have become spoiled in this day and age.
vixensghost
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SoKlueles said:
You got me thinking...Sooooo..I looked it up cuz I was wonderin who did invent our " Cotton Ponies".lol
Egyptians! They used softened papyrus.
Then..The Greeks invented tampons made of lint wrapped around small pieces of wood in the 5th Century BC. I 'll keep my plastic applicator, thank you very much. Wonder how many got splinters?
Earl Haas invented our modern day tampon in 1929.
cezza30
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vixensghost said:You got me thinking...Sooooo..I looked it up cuz I was wonderin who did invent our " Cotton Ponies".lol
Egyptians! They used softened papyrus.
Then..The Greeks invented tampons made of lint wrapped around small pieces of wood in the 5th Century BC. I 'll keep my plastic applicator, thank you very much. Wonder how many got splinters?
Earl Haas invented our modern day tampon in 1929.
We've actually got a lot to thank the Egyptians for . . . contraception (of sorts...) dates back to them!
They used various methods to stop unwanted pregnancies, from crocodile dung (one can only imagine how this was quite umm used
) to spreading honey down there. Whilst I'm not sure crocodile dung has ever been proved to be effective at all for this purpose, the latter apparently does have some grounding to it! According to my research (haha I sound so sad...) as the sugar in the honey fermented, a semi-effective spercimide was produced!Ahh the strange things you can find out when you start looking up Egyptian tampons
that's my history lesson for the day done!
vixensghost
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cezza30 said:We've actually got a lot to thank the Egyptians for . . . contraception (of sorts...) dates back to them!
They used various methods to stop unwanted pregnancies, from crocodile dung (one can only imagine how this was quite umm used
Ahh the strange things you can find out when you start looking up Egyptian tampons
LOL....Croc dung, huh? I can only imagine it would be a great birth control method! The smell alone would put a damper on "gettin it on".Interesting reading at any rate.
cezza30
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vixensghost said:
Interesting reading at any rate.
I suppose it would limit your potential men to those without a sense of smell, or the really desperate, or the really weird
Fingers crossed nobody sees my google search history for tonight, or they might include me in with those weirdos!
vixensghost
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Cezza30..LOL @ potential men comment. SOOOOO TRUE!
darcykrista
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Interesting that tampons were invented by a man...
darcykrista
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yea that's messed to have a cup inside you holding some free liquid..?? I don't understand how it couldn't spill or something, it's not like with a tampon it's absorbed. Plus having to clean it? That's disgusting. I'd rather not see a pool of my ENTIRE period.
Besides, and I know this may be an ignorant or negative thing to say, even if all the women in the world stopped using tampons/pads, it's not like there still wouldn't be landfills everywhere
Besides, and I know this may be an ignorant or negative thing to say, even if all the women in the world stopped using tampons/pads, it's not like there still wouldn't be landfills everywhere
Ladies, how are we ever going to get the MEN to stop thinking menstruation is disgusting if we ourselves are offended by our own bodies and the process?
If you read the testimonials entirely through you don't leave it in for your entire period, you obviously wash it out every so many hours, just like changing anything else, but it's not necessary to do it as frequently. It works on the same basis as a diaphram, it's held in place by the same internal muscles that keep a tampon in place.
If you read the testimonials entirely through you don't leave it in for your entire period, you obviously wash it out every so many hours, just like changing anything else, but it's not necessary to do it as frequently. It works on the same basis as a diaphram, it's held in place by the same internal muscles that keep a tampon in place.
vixensghost
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MM....Yikes, we hit a nerve? Sorry.
My "man" is not disgusted by it in the least. Typically only "boys" are grossed out.
However, I'd sure love to have him put up with the monthly process just once.
My "man" is not disgusted by it in the least. Typically only "boys" are grossed out.
However, I'd sure love to have him put up with the monthly process just once.
well its not the period that grosses me out, its the cup that kind of reminds me of a dixie cup that people keep in their bathrooms to drink out of
ok mm, if u do it, let me know how u like it, and if its a good report, i will try it just because i trust what you say. I suppose we are all used to pads and tampons and the idea of a cup in the vagina(especially those like me who dont use diaphrams(sp))
ok mm, if u do it, let me know how u like it, and if its a good report, i will try it
just because i trust what you say. I suppose we are all used to pads and tampons and the idea of a cup in the vagina(especially those like me who dont use diaphrams(sp))
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smbdybldr
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thats gross to me and I bet its uncomftrobale.. I prefer good old pads
Well, I can sort of vaguely understand where you're coming from, but I don't keep any sort of cups in my bathroom soSoKlueles said:
I actually keep a jug of bottled water in my bedroom for refreshment.I don't use a diaphram either, hubby's been snipped, but I was fitted for one and had one decades ago (I can't do the pill, the hormones screwed me up badly).
I'm game, I'll give a report. It might be an issue for me, because I do have a tilted uterus and that's the one case where sometimes they don't fit right apparently. But really, I don't see it as a whole lot different from tampons.
Oh, no, not a nerve it's just our culture, in general, and women in particular have been conditioned to perceive their menstruation as gross/nasty/dirty and that's so terribly wrong. It's just a cycle, like anything else, part of life and living.vixensghost said:
I don't get that, seriously. I don't understand the gross factor, blood is blood, whether it's sitting in a cup or soaked up in cotton it's all the same.smbdybldr said:thats gross to me and I bet its uncomftrobale.. I prefer good old pads
If you're talking uncomfortable OMG, pads are horrible, like having a wadded up towel in your underwear, I hated them from day one, the worlds most uncomfortable thing, ever, and what a mess overnight. The cup will feel like a tampon, which you don't feel at all if they're inserted properly.
They've been around since the 1930s so they can't be totally loopy. Hell, they've got a Wikipedia listing!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstrual_cup
Anyway, it's like anything else, we all have our preferences. I've never tried it, but I'm game. Hell, worst comes to worst, doesn't work, nothing ventured, nothing gained. If it does work it'll have paid for itself before September. Plus it sounds like if it does work out it makes your life 100% easier. I remember hearing about them years ago but I had totally forgotten so I'm glad SoKlu brought it up.
darcykrista
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No I totally don't think menstruation is dirty, but cleaning it out as opposed to just taking out a tampon and throwing it away is a lot more appealing in my opinion 
actually i read somewhere that menstrual flow is sterile.
yeah i have a great fiance who isn't grossed out by it in the least...i don't know how a man could be uncomfortable with periods after being in a relationship for a long time
actually i read somewhere that menstrual flow is sterile.
yeah i have a great fiance who isn't grossed out by it in the least...i don't know how a man could be uncomfortable with periods after being in a relationship for a long time
darcykrista
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oops i worded that wrong, i mean the tampon is more appealing, lol.
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Sounds like a pretty ok idea to me. I have four kids, all female, so there is very little that grosses me out. LOL I used that other cup thingie once and it didn't work for me. I still got leakage, even though my flow is relatively light. The doc explained that my cervix is sorta bent to the left after I had my last baby.
MM let us know how it works, cost effective, safe and environmentally friendly all sounds good to me.... that is, if it works.
MM let us know how it works, cost effective, safe and environmentally friendly all sounds good to me.... that is, if it works.
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