To not really understand why some people find mooncups so disgusting...

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Particularly after reading the 'fitting in' thread in AIBU... I just don't really understand, it's just blood, and you still have to deal with it when you use other sanitary products.

If anything, I think it's less yucky, because it collects it and you aren't wiping it off yourself? If it's about things going up there, that doesn't really make sense if you use tampons...

I love my mooncup - I feel so much cleaner and more hygenic without the manky tampon string. Plus it is much more comfy to put in and out - took me a month or so to get the knack - I wouldn't go back now.

Hairy grottrr - you're right. No-one should be judged. But this is what exactly this topic was for. To judge those who don't want to use moon cup.

Mignon NO ONE has disgreed with you about that. Everyone on this thread has said they pour their MCs down the toilet, yet you feel the need to fixate on something you once read on another thread.

I don't use a mooncup but plan to try one after dc2 is born. Surely the answer to the problem is to use antibacterial hand gel?

So many myths on this thread from people assuming things with no actual knowledge of the mooncup!

1. You get blood on your hands if you use lil-lets or other non-applicator tampons. Why aren't people making a big fuss about that? Personally, I find the mooncup so efficient it never has blood on the outside and so I don't get blood on my hands anyway.
2. It holds such a lot you can easily empty it when it's about half full if you have normal periods. So it doesn't spill everywhere.
3. Because it holds such a lot (and doesn't have the TSS risks of tsmpons) I personally only need to empty it twice a day and therefore avoid having to do it in public loos anyway.
4. If you did need to, and we're worried about dirty hands, just keep hand sanitizer in your handbag. Ditto if you got blood on your hands.
5. Why on earth would you empty it down the sink?!
6. Nice, clean, non-absorbent silicone that can be sterilised, vs bleached, chemical-laden fabric that can leave fibres in your cagina and womb and has to be thrown away...I know which one I think is more gross!

Sorry for typos, bloody phone!

On your hands that is, not the mooncup!

Thanks OP, this thread is hilarious . TBH I think the idea of menstrual cups is gross, but no more so than tampons (leaving fibres inside you, TSS, Mersey goldfish) or towels (the smell, the mess, the general moistness, the flooding)... urgh. However, I've been using one for 5 years now and I honestly wouldn't go back because the unpleasant aspects of menstrual cups are mostly avoidable, unlike the disadvantages to other sanpro. I've never had to empty my Lunette during the working day (or the Mooncup I had previously), and you can avoid the slurping noise, getting blood on your hands, spillages etc just through practice.

TBH I find it hilarious that women who've endured years of cleaning up the spew, shit and blood of their DC can't bear the idea that their fingers may occasionally come into contact with their own menses...

Cagina...brilliant

Spatch

it's actually on this thread.....

I suspect people aren't 'making a fuss' over non applicator tampons as they aren't what the topic is about.

This topic was someone who couldn't believe why someone wouldn't want to use them. People have explained why, and their reasons are justified. You can't get all offended about it when it's the OP that was questioning the people who don't want to use them.

No need for either side to be rude.

Ah, sorry mignon I stand corrected! But as you can see, that poster is in the minority. As are all the other mingers who misuse toilets in whatever shape or form - mooncups or not.

Woah. Lot of mooncup hate on this thread. I get that some don't like them, but is there a reason to say that those of us who do like them are disgusting, or that we are leaving our womb lining on the door handles?

As to the toxic shock syndrome comment - it is well known that this is very very rare when using menstrual cups.

I empty it in the loo, without smearing either myself or the cubicle with blood, then pop it back in without rinsing if I am in a public loo. I rarely have to do this though, as I only have to empty once a day.

If you object to mooncups, then you must object to tampons without applicators, as they have to be manually inserted too.

As an aside, they are being tested in Kenya at the moment, to see if using mooncups would be practical for young girls. There is some evidence that girls stop going to school when they have their period and a menstrual cup could be a way of providing long term sanitary protection to keep them in education.

I'd love to be able to because I hate the waste of sanitary towels. But I can't use tampons, I just never got the hang of it, always goes in wrong and hurts and when I pull it out its always sort of exploded inside?! So I can't imagine i'd be very good with a mooncup

I have considered reusable pads and just chuck them in with the nappies but I tried the pantyliners and they were crap because they had no sticky bit so just slipped all over- wouldn't want that with period blood!

I'm sure that is the minority and that there are some mingers as you say who leave all kinds of detritus everywhere. I have no problem with menstrual blood, Mooncups etc nor touching my own genitalia nor those of patients (not that that is common occurrence), neither do I think that MB is dirty because of where it comes from. Just that after years of watching some awful hygiene practices within my own workplace and knowing how grubby the World is generally, why would anyone condone adding to the general body fluid cross-contam? I accept that most MNers here do not pour blood down sinks. I would urge anyone not to.

I do not use one but I have had no problems with unbleached tampons personally. I am a clean freak though especially with it being Norovirus time also.

Mignonette I think you're misunderstanding rather badly.

People mention sinks because they're talking about toilet cubicles with sinks in, so they can empty the mooncup down the toilet, replace it and then wash their hands in the sink.

Mignon I don't think the world is particularly grubby - at least, it's not something that I think about. I think your job has skewed your perspective somewhat. We all come into contact with loads of germs on a daily basis and very, very rarely get sick from them.

Forgive me for being daft, but what would be bad about someone putting it down the sink? I mean, you wash your hands after so the blood wiuld be washed away wouldnt it?

Can I just ask all the people who think Mooncups are unhygienic how many sheets of loo roll they use when they have a shit? It's been proven that shit germs can penetrate onto your hand through as many as 15 sheets of loo roll. Yet you're worried that I might leave a bit of menstrual blood in a public loo.

I'd rather go to the public loo after someone who'd emptied a mooncup than after someone who'd had a shit. The 'Mooncups are unhygienic' arguments on this thread are just insane.

I'm not misunderstanding Narked. Please read the whole thread and see the comment I am referring to.

My perspective on disposing of body fluids down sinks (which HAS been mentioned here and on other threads) is not skewed. it is not hygienic and I imagine I am not in the minority in thinking that.

Maybe my perspective upon this is not the 'skewed' one? Is familiarity with MB breeding contempt amongst a few posters regarding what is appropriate social behaviour?

I have seen the comment you reposted. It says nothing about putting blood down the sink.

I was fairly open-minded about them until my DD was witness to a woman washing hers out in the sink in a public loo. Lovely.

I thought blood was sterile when it comes out?

Or am I thinking about wee?

OFGS- nothing wrong with shit/blood/urine/sputum/vomit/cerebral frigging spinal fluid going down a toilet.....But that is not what the sink is for....So referring to shitting in a toilet as less hygienic than pouring blood down it is ridiculous. I'm out. The comments now have a very tenuous grip......

Keep your knickers on.