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.

cheeky mare i do wash my pants every dayseeker put i like apantyliner it feels fresher.

Well it probably would seeker if you don't have much discharge etc.

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to answer "for when you are creaming yourself"? [sorry for porn-speak]

So change your pants twice a day. Think of what these things are doing to the environment,

" Why does it worry you that other people need them ?"

Because I care about the planet.

And I hate the fact that Big Business are persuading us that women's bodies are somehow leaky and smelly and imperfect and we need to buy things to sort them out.

Imagine the hilarity if someone tried to market Boxer Liners! And men are even more likely to have drips to mop up than women.

Boxer liners! Excellent idea (how would they work though since no gusset per se? Maybe just a smaller pair of extra-absorbent boxers to go on underneath?) we will make our fortunes.

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Ahem...they do make pany liners for men.

It's skid mark liners they really need to market.

It can be incredibly uncomfortable having excessive discharge. I have a colleague who suffers with either that or excessive perspiration in the gusset area.

When she gets up from a plastic molded chair in the meeting room she leaves a crescent of moisture. Is that pleasant for her or the next person to use the chair?

I would love love love to use a mooncup, I truly would. it must be very satisfying. However on my period I soak two night time pads laid end to end every hour. Most days I lose a severe amount of blood clots. Some are as large as the palm of my hand. I once had one fall out of my knickers and onto the floor in the office. i had to walk the length of a football pitch to the toilet, covered in blood. That would be an hourly occurance with a mooncup.

In my role I sometimes have to sit in 3 hour meetings discussing clothing ranges. I could hardly get up and empty my mooncup every half hour it isn't practical.

The pads are essential to my daily life.

I'm sure most level headed women wouldn't waste money on panty liners if they didn't need to. I certainly don't buy them, they would wither on seeing the beginning of my menstrual cycle. I'm sure manufacturers could also do more to make them recycled, non bleached etc etc.

Don't they already sell "Peeny Pads" in America for gentlemen who drip?

Before I discovered a mooncup I used to use pantyliners as that was generally about as much as I needed beyond the first half day, but needed some protection still.

They are for taking off your nail varnish of course

I use washable ones. But yeah. Twice a day wouldn't really cut it

Am I really unusual then? Once I just used my mooncup to collect the stuff and it was full in a few hours. That did seem to be a particularly damp day though.

I am not a fan of disposable sanitary products, they make me sweat, and they can't be good for the environment. But I can see why others use them - before I discovered reusable stuff I did.

Washable also not a viable option for me. I have to travel a lot with my team, can you imagine trying to rinse and store them in a hotel room? Also as I am away a few days a week it tends to be hand luggage only for speed and efficiency and to maximise the trips.

Last Tuesday I had my bag searched infront of my two male colleagues, can you imagine customs pulling out a nappy sack of soiled pads or blood soaked knickers.

I'm afraid modern paper sanitaryware is a life saver for me for a week of every month.

Binfullofmaggots - this is about pantyliners not sanitary pads, nobody is questioning the use of sanitary towels.

I would dearly love to not have to wear liners at the moment I hate the damn thongs, but I hate having soggy knickers even more!. I never used to have to before I had a coil fitted. I would have to carry about 5 pairs of pants to work with me if I didn't !!

Yes I am fully aware of that, however there are alternatives to every product, my example is sanitary pads, whereas for others it is panty pads. And people do very much suggest alternatives to sanitary towels but for me, I have exhausted those possibilties and disposable products are the only option.

Some posters are saying that women only use due to marketing of the product creating a need, whereas other posters are putting across reasons for using this particular product which are personal, and may not be understood by a non user.

My context was, that it's very easy to pour scorn when you don't suffer an extreme condition, or live a different lifestyle to others. For some women disposable panty pads may be a godsend, and people shouldn't be judged for that.

Seeker, I think you're being a bit mean to those of us who really feel we need to use pantyliners. Before I had my son, I felt rather like you and was pretty sure that they were yet another marketing conspiracy to make women feel inadequate and therefore to buy more stuff. But post-birth, my pelvic floor is so useless that if I sneeze or cough when there's more than a teaspoonful of urine in my bladder, it squirts out with some force. Without a pantyliner in my knickers, an unexpected sneeze or cough immediately and inevitably results in either a sudden and very visible wet patch on my crotch, or a puddle on the floor, depending on what I am wearing. Maybe I'm insufficiently liberated, but I just can't get over finding this deathly embarrassing. As I have had endless physio for my pelvic floor without much improvement, I suspect I probably need surgery, but can't quite muster the energy to sort this out.
As for the damage I'm doing to the environment, I suspect a few pantyliners probably don't add much to the huge burden that each individual in the developed world creates, so I'm not going to let it make me feel guilty.