Woollytights, those examples are nothing like what appears to be going on, I.e. Educating and helping. Of course that is not the same as whipping out your bits in front of a relative or someone putting their hand up your skirt, wtf?!
And to the poster who asked me why I couldn't just say where I put my tampon, as opposed to showing my ds, I did say. The conversation went on, got more technical from his side, we were standing near them in the toilet and I needed to put one in so I did!
Come to think of it, as another poster has said, this is not necessarily a one off as the DC rarely leave me alone long enough. I am sure they've seen me do it before.
And yy to another poster who said she struggles with tampons. My mum was an utter dick about this sort of thing, and I had to do it all by myself with guesswork and a crappy instruction leaflet. Had I had an approachable mother I could have gone to her, but I didn't.
One way or another we will fuck our children up, thank you Philip Larkin, but if it's a question of too repressed versus too open, give me the latter every time.