To be completely baffled as to why the tampon is more popular than the mooncup?

[YunoYurbubson]

It just doesn't make sense.

I am a very recent convert to the mooncup and all I can think is wtf was I doing with tampons all those years?

I feel almost... betrayed by the generations of women who have made the tampon the mainstream menstruation product of choice.

Ignore your prejudices because those would work either way. If you were used to using a mooncup and someone suggested carrying around a bloodsoaked wodge of cotton wool on a string in your vagina instead you would think that was gross. It's just what you're used to.

So, prejudices aside. Agreed?

Lets just look at this logically.

The mooncup produces no waste, so no flushing things you shouldn't, no filling a bin with smelly waste, no furtive smuggling of used tampons wrapped in loo roll up your sleeve when there is no bin and you don't have pockets.

It's every bit as comfy and convenient.

It's cheaper.

And it is SO COOL seeing how much blood you have lost. I'm sorry, but it is. It's much less yucky because it's not old, brown drying smelly blood. It's a fresh little pot of new, clean blood. It's just not yucky.

And this isn't a thread to critisise or judge or feel superior. I just REALLY want someone else to be converted and feel the joy too . I want someone else to have the scales fall from their eyes and feel as delighted as I do right now.

I am prejudiced I'm afraid. And dubious, how do you know they fit? Do they spill or fall out if you run fast? (not that I do much running, but I might start one day )

It is a BIT yucky, but I use a mooncup these days and the difference is amazing. Plus none of that lat day of period cotton wool squeak.

Gah, last day not lat day....

Aside from the fact i haven't had to use sanitary products since march 08, they look very uncomfortable and akward to use.

at you revealing in how much blood you've collected, why is that interesting????

I'm 47 so probably too old to invest in one now, sadly.

I've used both. Me, I prefer applicator tampons every time. The mooncup was a PITA at work (took a couple of flushes to clear the toilet, had to rinse out, muck on my hands however much practise I had) and I just prefer the cleanliness and ease of a tampon even after about 2 years of using a Mooncup.

The only thing I use my mooncup for now is in anticipation of my period, and at the end when tampons are too strong and I dont want a pad. But I think YABU, and can easily see why Tampons win over Mooncups.

and people said the spot thread was nasty. yuck.
TMI

I felt the same when I switched. The best part for me is that my period pains are so much less with my mooncup. I don't know what it is about tampons, but I always get really really bad cramps with them.

I saw someone rinse a mooncup out in a public toilet. She then went back into the cubicle, presumably to re insert and then left without washing her hands but leaving blood in the sink. Double boak.

mooncups can suck out your coil

Oh God I try so hard to use them and I can see that they are better for us and better ecologically but getting a finger and a thumb into my fanjo while trying to break the sodding vacuum on the cup is just bloody infuriating.

That's if I can fold the bloody thing in half twice and get it in in the first place.

Should of rubbed her nose in it Sassy!

agree about teh irritation at the fact that we've all been conned into thinking that tampons are the bees' knees. but allowing myself a small boak at the blood in the sink... she really hadn't thought that through.

OP, agree wholeheartedly. Apart from the bit about seeing how much blood I've lost- I would be lying if I said I got any pleasure from that!

Well I think the answer to the original question is When did you last see a Mooncup on the shelf in Tesco? Huge amount of women have simply never heard of them. I hadn't until I came on MN.

Only found out about mooncups on here a few months ago - had to google to find out what on earth people were talking about. Going through the menopause now so don't intend to change, but wish I had known about them when I was younger and I would have given them a whirl.

Lol at the squeaky cotton wool.

Outside of MN I'm not sure they are that well known - most of my friends are if I mention it.

Sanitary products like towels and tampons have big budget advertising

YANBU

think about all the used tampons that women in Britain throw away everyday in one huge sticking pile, and think about what that is doing to the environment

they are on the shelf in boots.

stinking was what i really meant, although im sure it will be sticky too

think about what the contraceptive pill is doing also to the environment

Okay. Ew at blood in the sink.

I think a "problem" with the mooncup is that it´s no good for when you start your periods.

So if you get used to pads/tampons you might not be inclined to change.

maybe we should have a mooncup campaign

I love love love my mooncup too, and like you OP I feel slightly cheated that I've spent the last 20 years (can't believe it's been that long!) using tampons. I bought mine a year ago and will never go back to tampons ever.