Wingless pads

[Meredithgrey1]

DH went to the shop this morning and I asked him to get me some pads. He got the right ones (by brand and flow) but got the kind without wings.

I know, since they make them, there must be a market for them. But without wings feels less secure to me, they move more, they leak more (especially at night).

Am I using them wrong? Is there a benefit I'm not seeing? Do they just not leak for some people? Women who use wingless pads, please enlighten me!

45 yr olds?

Me, I am a fully grown woman

I honestly don't care uf they have wings or not.

I hate wings but as others have said it’s really hard to find pads without these days.

They stick to your knickers too hard and rub your legs and pinch pubes, yes I still have some of those too.

Laiste your post made me laugh “A soft, comforting mattress in your drawers” ..so true.

I have pubes !

44 actually! Waves another banner

Don't all woman have hair down there?? I prefer to wax and then shave for less hair. But I hate my periods so heavy ugh. But I love my reusable pads!!

@Whatthehay are you genuinely confused or just being dim?
What makes you think all woman remove their pubic hair?

whatthehay how old are you, out of interest? I'm 41 and cannot be arsed with the maintenance of the shaven fanny. As long as its tidy, it will do. Who's going to see it? And if there was someone who was going to see it, they would be bloody lucky to get the chance so they would have zero say in how it looked.

Panty liners are fine without wings I found that more substantial pads really need wings if they aren't to shift around!

I’m 42. You guys really don’t shave?

No. I hate the porn influenced pre-puberty look. I am in my fifties, it wasn’t a thing for my generation.

The full bush is making a comeback, Whatthehay you are behind the times!

70s aesthetic is everywhere amongst the hipster lot, pot plants in macrame, shag hairdos and actual pubic hair!

I hate the porn influenced pre-puberty look Same, and I'm 40.

I bought some wingless pads by mistake last year and have never looked back - I find them much less irritating to wear / remove. I found wings used to track the blood round and would always have blood on the bottom of my pants. I do think wingless are better than they used to be though as I have definite memories of them just scrunching up in the middle.

Wings irritate the inner crease at top of thighs!
I’m also surprised that nobody else said that the wings are always in the wrong place – is it just me that has to wear pads placed more forwards then smack in the middle? maybe I’m odd but especially with the night ones with the longer wings if I put them where they are meant to go the pad sits too far backwards & I will invariably leak at the front of the pad ... Tried reusable but they sit in totally the wrong place too ... At least the sticky wings you can adjust the “width” of the gusset - with the poppers you can’t, so they either irritate the tops of your legs because the gusset is too wide, or bunch up your underwear because it’s too narrow

@Whatthehay

I’m 42. You guys really don’t shave?

Only the bits that stick out the side of a swimsuit.

I’m 42. You guys really don’t shave?

Nope, partly cos I'm not that hairy - not enough for anything to protrude from swimsuits or knickers. But because I'm also pre-porn and don't see why on earth I should shave it. It looks how it's meant to look and I've never had any complaints. I liked what Kathy Burke said in her recent series, about how men would happily shag a ham sandwich. So it's not them we're really doing it for. It's just more commodification, for me at least. If it gives you pleasure, wax and shave away!

I have a full wax (obviously not at moment) and I'm hating having hair down there on my period during this (won't shave as hate regrowth after shaving), feels messier even if that is how nature intended it!

I am like you LucyFox , the wings aren’t in the right place, and irritate the crease at the top of my thighs. I also have to place pads more forward. I am tall, maybe that is why ?

Wings are uncomfortable, I hate them and have been known to rip them off! Irritate, rub, come undone then find the amazing stick to adhear to hairs etc. Nope not a fan here.

I hate wings. I am also a recent convert to the Kotex mattress pad. So comfortable and I feel secure that they won't leak. I can think of no finer sanitary towel to see out my periods as I lurch into menopause.

I used to cut the wings off I hate them so much. Now I just fold them in on themselves and tuck them away.

Who has pubes anymore anyway I would imagine most of us at the moment, given you can't go anywhere for "intimate treatments".

I usually shave my bikini line but only because I go swimming. As I can't go swimming, I haven't since March.

But yes those of us aged over 40 who didn't grow up with stupid porn saying we all have to look like 13 year olds.

I don't understand the point of making pads more and more thin, less than a piece of toilet paper, and then adding wings for side leaking...well, it should not go there!
Not necessarily a mattress, but technically a more soft one leaves no gaps between the skin and the pad, so no space for trips out of town.