to ask you what pantyliners are for?

[AlwaysWondering]

I really don't know.

Surely the gusset is there for a bit of moisture leakage?
Or a sanitary towel for periods?
Or a pad for urine leakage?
My DM was useless at this sort of thing.
So, please explain.

Ewwww, I thought sewage got treated & didn't get pumped straight out into the sea. Every bf I've ever had has flushed them down the loo! Shall have to rethink my/their approach.

Yes I have used the teeny g-string ones when I used to wear the things. I found folding a normal liner much easier

Floydie They itch my fanjo as well so I have moved onto washable also DS's Fluffle liner makes an excellent soft panty liner

it does get treated (and someone smarter than me will explain the process) but somehow stuff that goes down the loo ends up rolling back nto the beaches. condoms, tampons, sanitary towels, cotton buds, nappies, baby wipes. the lot. some beaches are particiularly bad with it. imagine going in for a dip and coming out with a used condom attached to your arse!!

Not only will condoms get flushed into the sea the will en-masse along with sanitary towels nappies and any other non dissolable thing block sewers and men have to go down there and remove all the build up.

I saw a programme on sewers were there was a grid in the sewer that had a huge build up of condoms, wet wipes and cotton buds. This made an impenetrable barrier that would of eventually blocked the whole sewer

They're used for discharge. Some people have heavier discharge than.others that can feel damp and sometimes stain.

They're helpful the day after using a canesten pessary and the slight mess that using it entails (I speak from bitter experience at the mo, being 23 weeks pg with a nasty bout of thrush)

Point taken Catsmother - but your use of these items doesn't mean that there isn't ALSO advertising, promotion and purchase of them by people who use them just because they are there, iyswim.
Most people on this thread have detailed the circumstances under which they find them beneficial.

You shouldn't put anything down the toilet which won't break up easily, no matter how small it is. Not just the sea thing - if it got snagged on the inside of a pipe (some parts of our sewage system are still Victorian) it then makes that snag bigger which means it's more likely to catch other things, then the blockage builds up and builds up until you end up with a big problem.

Sorry for autocorrect earlier!

Pregnancy

FloydieDoydie I use the teeny tiny ones for thongs!

But only because after lots of problems with spotting/irregular (light) bleeding I have absolutely no idea whether my knickers will get ruined or not. It's settling now but being paranoid is RUBBISH!

So yes, I wear them daily now. . . I have the fear factor. Although the fragranced ones freak me out - surely they would irritate your bits?!

Ugh at the idea of fragranced.

I believe in the USA they have fragranced tampons! it's bad enough stuffing a rayon bullet up your falloola without it being doused in perfume. Just the thought of it makes me reach for the canasten

Did I dream it, or is one of the most harmful substances washed into the sea these days the little tiny plastic beads in exfoliating scrubs? I dimly recall hearing something about how they're ingested by filter feeders and clog up their little shellfishy systems

People on implants often need them for spotting, women with mild stress incontinence use them. Young women with no intermenstrual spotting shouldn't need them.
Knickers in bed is wrong, after sex (but not straight after, makes you look like a mad hygeine freak) you go to the loo and clean up. This is when I love my bidet though.

I use the thong liners. They are the right shape. They do the job.

The unreasonableness is mostly in use of the word "panty".

This is a product which nobody needed until they were told so by the manufacturers

AmberLeaf PMSL

Perhaps someone should suggest panty liners to this lady, the NHS poster girl for such ishoos in pregnancy.

Has 'post bath gush' been mentioned yet?

What is 'gusset bleaching'?! (rush or anyone?)

Anyone?!!

Its the ammonia from your unwiped pee that turns your black knickers rust coloured (so my mate tells me)

Oh...:o thanks Fiona!!

And my work here is done...

Gusset bleaching thread that made it's way into Classics - enjoy!

Oh god! Thanks rush! I've been searching bleached gussets for last half hour!! Discharge :)