would it be terribly unreasonable to buy all the females a mooncup for christmas?

[PyrotechnicsAtYourCervix]

I'm shit at presents. I'm thinking this will:

a. save the planet

b. be just as useful as a goat

c. provide much hilarity over lunch

d. educate them

e. they'll thank me eventually

it will be mooncups or socks.

I love those ladycups. I'm especially hilarified by the ladylube. I also really want a pink one now. (Thinking the other colours might go a bit ick)

I am actually in the market for a mooncup, but FFS... if you're crap at presents, what's wrong with good, old-fashioned booze?

I agree though, 'tis weird that people that people think mooncups are vile, yet are happy to stick a bleached plug up there to soak up all the blood and leave traces of fibre inside them. If both had been invented at the same time and so came with no preconceptions the tampon would win it for ick factor.

That's as may be, but I can't say I'd be that happy with a packet of tampons or pads as a pressie either.

Recommend mooncups by all means. Extol their virtues. But to give them as presents is quite frankly odd.

YABVVU

a. I have a nice tight vagina and there is no way I'd be able to cram one of those up me.

b. i dont give a fuck about the planet

c. I don't do vagina furniture

HTH

Honest opinion...

a. save the planet....There's nothing worse than preachy presents

b. be just as useful as a goat.......No, the goat almost always gets used. Mooncups not so much.

c. provide much hilarity over lunch....That might be true

d. educate them........I would find this a bit patronising personally

e. they'll thank me eventually.....I wouldn't

It will be mooncups or socks.....Go with the socks

If you can get an average-sized penis inside your vagina, I'd say you can get a mooncup up there.

You really are shit at presents. You're one of those people who give me How To Stop Smoking and How To Be Organised books with Calman cartoons on the front, aren't you? Go on, it WAS you, wasn't it??!

Presents aren't supposed to be improving. They are not intended to teach the recipient a lesson. If you're that crap at presents and willing to spend £25 per gift, go for M&S vouchers.

Absolutely perfect Mumsnet thread title, though

Slinking, I just read the history bit on the Mooncup website, and they actually were invented at about the same time as tampons. Sorry.

Having said that, MN is slowly bringing me round to the idea (I hadn't even heard of them before coming on here). I wouldn't want one for Christmas though, too weird.

I used to use my diaphragm. It led to a very messy random shag one night, when I'd forgotten I was on

If someone gave me a mooncup as a present, I would give it right back. Violently.

YABU. Apart from being a weird present, mooncups don't suit everyone. I bought a mooncup and it always leaked so I gave up using it and went back to tampons. I recently had a smear and my cervix doesn't lie normally (inverted cervix, or something of the like), so that's why, apparently.

Get them wine, chocs or a good book.

I love it. And I'd love you for giving it to me (even though I don't really need one - another Mirena user here).

I would not thank you, TBH.
I do think they are a great idea on many levels but I am uncomfortable with touching myself inside. I use applicator tampons for this reason. Once I ean out and a friend lent me a lilets tampon sans applicator and I found the experience unpleasant so I can only assume a MC would not be for me.

Plus I am a nearly 40 so presumably only have a few more years of periods ahead so it might be a bit late for me to change now.