Females of RYL because I love you and care about you very much...
 

Before I launch into my little rant, I can see no reason why a post like this would not be allowed. I have checked the rules and it doesn't seem to break any. I haven't labeled this *Adult* as any female can benefit from reading this and I don't believe this is an adult topic.

I've recently become more and more shocked that women do not understand the health implications of using disposable menstrual products or that they have not even considered the environmental implications. Obviously everyone should be free to make their own choice based on what works best for them but many women just aren't aware of the options they actually have.

Why tampons can be harmful to you and the environment:
http://www.thebody.com/content/art497.html
http://www.moteldarlene.com/tampons.htm

Information about reusable menstrual products:
http://www.gladrags.com/menstrual_musings.php
http://www.youngwomenshealth.org/alt...menstrual.html
http://knol.google.com/k/diana/alter...o3cxyah6bh0/2#

Here is a full list of cups available and their websites:
The Keeper: made of natural rubber and from U.S.
http://www.keeper.com/aboutkeeper.html
The Moon Cup: made of silicone and from U.S.(same company as Keeper).
http://www.keeper.com/aboutmooncup.html
The Diva Cup: made of silicone and from Canada
http://www.divacup.com/
The Moon Cup UK: made of silicone and from U.K.
http://www.mooncup.co.uk/index.html
The Lunette: made of silicone and from Finland
http://www.lunette.fi/english_index.html
The Lady Cup and Pink Cup: made of silicone and from the Czech Republic known for being smaller and softer than many. They also have a clear pink one.
http://www.ladycup.eu/
The Mia Cup: made of silicone and from South Africa appears to be a solid pink color
http://www.miacup.co.za/

Cloth pads:
http://www.pinkrobin.co.uk/shop/bene...FWIB4wodajRjAg
http://www.lunapads.com/
http://www.comfyclothpads.com/
http://www.moontimes.co.uk/

If this interests you then that's great! If you're happy how you are then please, continue and enjoy your day!
Any questions please feel free to ask.

Blah. Tampons D:

Menstrual cups kinda weird me out a bit though for some reason o.o;;

Thats vile.
Its not the kind of thing you want to re-use.
And i dont really give a flying ***** about the environment.

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That's you prerogative but I think the use of the word vile was unnecessary and somewhat hurtful

Washable pads? I draw the line at that. Mooncups and the like are great if you can use them, but some can't (flow might be too heavy) and some simply don't want to, especially if needing to wash it in a public place.

Its hurtful that i think reusing that stuff is vile?
Wow.
Grow some balls, you posted a thread that was bound to have at least SOME people with the same opinion as mine. Yet you expected everyone to be nice about it?
Dreaming.

The Ladycup company make great cups for women with a heavier flow that fold up really small yet still hold a LOT of blood. In all honesty, the average amount of blood lost by women is about 3/4 cups full of a Mooncup so even with a heavier flow a standard sized cup is feasible. I'm not saying it's ideal for everyone but there are ways around it. And if people don't want to then that's fine, I'm just putting the information out there. :thumbup:

It seemed to suggest that anyone who made these choices for their body was vile. I don't really think that throwing tens of thousands of pieces of bloody rayon into a landfill is very nice but I'd never tell someone it was vile. Hey, maybe I'm just too polite?

Ew, reusable?

Yeah, I heard a story about how someone got a mooncup stuck up them. I do agree with Bee, and find the whole idea vile, so vile I didn't read all the links you were spurting out at us.

Just because they're good for the environment, doesn't mean they're good for me.

Yep.
Contrary to popular belief, tampons and pads are actually far from sterile.
The only way to actually ensure that something is sterile is to sterilize it yourself so in many ways reusing despite sounding odd is much cleaner.

But i didnt say the people were vile, if you go back and read it it clearly said "that's vile" not "theyre vile" or "if you use that you are vile."
You put all of your other rubbish into the landfil (bar any recycling you may do) so why is it any different to putting these in the rubbish with that?

WHAT.

Oh hell that's it, I'ma stick with pads

That's really, really disgusting. Really.
Why would you want to reuse something like that?
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I'm a tampons girl, but I swear it was someone on here. One minute, let me try and find the thread.

It isn't.
But I do try to minimize the amount of rubbish I throw away.
I recycle everything possible and all biodegradable waste is composted.

WTF reusable pads? ewwwwwww

Once and only once for me.

Hahaha, aren't moon cups funny little buggers?

I believe it was Jodie (Kelpie), compare one isolated incident (obviously there will have been more) to a probably far higher number of women that get tampons stuck or develop TSS it probably doesn't make a very convincing argument.

DO NOT WANT

I'd still rather not have a piece of plastic up me, thanks.

I'd rather take the chance of using tampons properly, or pads which have NO chance of getting stuck inside you, than have a piece of plastic or silicon stuck in me. You didn't really make a very convincing argument either, but I do think this thread belongs in N&D.

DD:
its okay, pads are totally fine.

Composts arent as good for the environment as they are made to seem.
Do you drive? Or catch public transport?

Id much rather kill the world and not stick things up my fanny more than once than be that tiny little bit more envoronmentally friendly.

thankfully im on the mini pill so i havent had any periods for about 4months now so i dont need to use anything, saving the environment and my money!
i totally get the idea of these things but for me the blood is the bit i dont like, altho strangly normal blood dont bother me. i think it would make me more concious of my periods and i used to try and forget them as much as poss. but def a good idea if you can get your head round it

Oh gross. I gag at the thought. And you really need to put a warning of some sort in the title saying that this is potentially really gross. Cause... it is. I dont' care if they're bad for the environment... I realy and truly don't. The thought of washing my own stuff? UGH! My stomach is churning right now.

eww. Nah i'll stick to tampons thanks.. Somethings just wern't made to be reused. It's like reusing toliet paper!... :S

Just my opinion though.

Join the club Jess.

sometimes I wish I were a boy..

People do that actually.
Like cloth nappies and cloth baby wipes, you can also use the wipes as toilet paper.
I think most people tend just to use them after urination.

i dont understand why you would want to reuse toilet paper/sanitary towels/tampons.

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that's just disgusting.

Want this please

Sounds delightful D:

How long 'til someone suggests we should do that?

ANYONE who reuses toilet paper truely takes the medal.
Thats absolutely disgusting.
We arent in the roman times anymore, and the world isnt in that dire need of saving that we have to resort to reusing simple thigns like that.
Cloth nappies and toilet paper are very different things.

You havent made a decent arguement to begin with so continuing with it now just makes you look a little bit dumb.

Abouttttt 5 minutes?

cha. ewwww.

The title of this immediately made me want to punch and stab things.

This discussion will just go round in circles for hours..

It's disgusting in my personal opinion.. if people choose to reuse their sanitary products its up to them.. but i wont be joining them.

they invented disposables for a reason...

Leaving the thread.. its just making me feel slightly sick.

I didn't giggle at this :x

Thank heavens for the Contraceptive Implant. No periods for 3 years wooo!

But I dunno, I don't like the idea of re-using something that get covered in stinky manky red stuffs.
Also, by machine washing the cloth re useable ones, isn't that bad for the environment anyway? All that electricity and water being used to clean it.

I dunno... ew.

Look, to be honest I didn't think this would be met so negatively.
I didn't think I had to make an argument.
I thought if I could just stop and make people think about the options available to them then that would be a nice thing to do.
Btu apparently no one wants to hear.
Lets just forget about this as clearly no one has anything positive to say.
What would be wrong with saying "hey it's not for me but if you want to that's fine"?
I mean really I feel as if society had pushed women into feeling as if this is something disgusting, it's just a little bit of blood.
I didn't expect everyone to turn around ad say that it was great but I didn't expect to feel like quite such a minority either.

Everyone is going to have theyre own opinion on this thread.
I think a hell of people are going to say it's wrong, and disgusting.
Personally, I'm quite happy with what I use, but at the end of the day, Each to they're own.

People reuse toilet paper!? :blink:

Ha Tom you make me laugh. Even guests are coming to this thread.

Very nice if thats what you believe but um not for me thanks. The thought of it is making me wana spew over my lunch. And i mean I think theres a few other things i could do for the planet before i'd think about doing that.

I mean good luck with it if thats your choice but just not for me thanks. I am actually quite stunned at this thread. Just wow.

...what's wrong with a tampon/sanitary towel? :ermm:

Am sorry I haven't read all the links - the image of the inverted condom the woman was holding on the UK cup site and imagining that in my coochy kind of made me die inside...

And your society comment? wow do you want a fight cos thats just gona antagonise people.(wrong word hehe) *walks away for now*

It was quite interesting to see the options and this thread is quite eye opening. I think some people need to be a bit more open-minded.

Yeah could someone tell me what's wrong with using sanitary towels and all that stuff you get from a pharmacy (ie advertised by doctors as the way to go) etc without me clicking on scary links in a male household. :(

Personally... O_O

I'm hoping that wasn't actually brought up seriously, lol ._.