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.

bodykind usually have a good deal, Claw

shiney, i think the heavier your period, the more potential for mess, but surely that's the case with any sanpro?
have you ever had that thing where a tampon basically SWINGS out of your fanny at high speed, then does a loop the loop on the end of the string, splattering as it goes?

it doesn't happen very often, but it can happen
people don't tend to say "oh i could never use a tampon, because my friend had a loop the loop splatter thing happen with hers, once"

I'm going to go for it and buy one then - even if I only us eit at home to begin with.

Thanks found one for £16.95 and size A for 30+ after birth?

well mooncups are not for everyone, same as tampons are not for everyone so not really fair to call someone negative for not liking them

personally i love mine, takes practice though

so you've all tempted me and I've found something to spend my Boots birthday voucher on but ... how do you know which size? I mean ... [bends over with ruler] ...

sorry - I got the letters the wring way around!

it's the fact that she keeps saying that they are messy when so many people say that they aren't. shineon might just want to acknowledge that she is clumsy...

Shall I get one even though I am vair old and on the brink of menopause? Just spent £2.99 today on 20 tampons.

And what if you did not have your babies vaginally? Should one opt for size (b), even if one has quite a heavy flow?

i think if you are over thirty you are a b anyway...

ROTFL Shineon :o

But why are they so expensive? No, don't tell me, I know, it's down to the small quantities. But that's down to the high price and poor marketing.

Someone place an order for a million, which should cost about the same price range as a baby bottle teat since they closely resemble them - about 30 cents or so? Is that $300k total? Pack them two in a pack and sell them for £5 a pair. Encourage women to give them to their friends. Give away a pretty pair of pants with the first 1 000, because when you use a cup, you can wear nice lingerie with confidence.

Lol Bonzo, I got mine with a Boots birthday voucher too. Glad the person who gave it to me didn't ask me if I got anything nice!

I meant pack two sizes in a pack. Then if one size doesn't fit the other one will IYSWIM.

Hmmm, that's very presumptious of them about the size of my vag. I feel almost insulted.

BTW It's

A for After giving birth or apparently After thirty (but tbh I think if you need one just because you are 31 then you need to do some Kegels)

and

B for Before

But if you get the wrong size it will only leak a little bit, you can still use it, it reduces the number of pads you get through.

We had a blocked drain recently, and the big burly drainage bloke informed me that he'd just fished out a whole massive bundle of tampons from our drains , and advised me that I "really should bag, not flush".

If only he'd told me about the mooncup......

ha Pixel - that's what I was worrying about. Friend who gave me my voucher insisted I spend it on myself and not the children so may well ask. But she came to see The Vagina Monologues with me and walked out at half time. Oh dear. I may have to invent some smellies.

Okay, you have another convert. I'm off to Google mooncups now. BTW, what the heck was JTP doing in the ladies? Can he not read signage?

I have always been grossed out by pads and tampons just feel weird these days for some reason, so off I toddle. I think I'd have got one earlier if I'd known Boots do them.

okay everyone... bit of advice. cut off the stem.

I can't imagine waddling to the sink from the loo with my pants round my knees to empty and clean it before shoving it back up.

Is that how it works? What about in a public loo? You can't waddle to the sink. So you just empty it down the loo trying to get most of the globs out and by the time you've got it back in your hands must look like they'e been through a blender? then there's the blood under the fingernails to be scrubbed before you go back to feel up the winter coats in John Lewis or whatever

it all sounds a bit time consuming to me

i have read only the first page

obviously have only read first page and everyone says they are not messy

loop the loop splatter is very funny

Loop the loop splatter - yep, familar with that one......

I have used mine for 4 years. It is the best thing I have ever bought for the money. I love the freedom of not having to take a bag into a loo. I have no problems with insertion or removal and it does hold more than a tampon. I was always an 'extra large' tampon user and it is still heavy on the first two days, but the whole experience is just so much more pleasant.

I'm sorry I should read but would you mind explaining what obviates the need to waddle to the sink with pants round knees