to think Mooncups???!!!! WTF?????

[SpookyBearistheSpookyBear]

well, am I?

I had never heard of such a thing until about ten minutes ago. Am currently pregnant so wouldnt need to try them for goodness knows how long. Are they the same as tampons in the 'do not use after childbirth' league???

I don't really know what feminine mystique means in this situation. Do you mean your dh doesn't know that you have periods? Why else would you hide the tampons?

My dp thinks I am sexy, and he doesn't stop finding me sexy because I menstruate. He doesn't stop finding me sexy because he has seen me give birth, and he doesn't stop finding me sexy even if he sees me boiling my mooncup . Why on earth would he? I'm a woman, not a Barbie doll.

Lo, you shouldn't put anything up there soon after childbirth - too bruised and at risk of infection. Sorry but you'll have to keep to pads I think (I know what you mean, they aren't the most pleasant thing).

pmsl at hiding the tampons at the back of the cupboard.
what about when you have your period, do you leap into the bed with the lights off
and fwiw I soak mine in Milton. because I would be guaranteed to leabve the little bugger to melt.

perhaps I should make a little cover for my mooncup in case a man sees it and is shocked into never having penetrative sex ever again.
sort of a mooncup burkha

Not read all the posts so this may have been answered. I think they sound fab but how do you sterilise it. Would a microwave steriliser work? - obviously now it is no longer used for anything else.

Amethyst you can boil it, or use Milton, or microwave it, yes

HC Pruni made me a little knitted cosy for mine, or so I thought. I realise now it was a Feminine Mystique Protector.

I have just asked dp for his thoughts on this and he said

"Stuff like that, well it's like having a poo isn't it. It's a bodily function. I don't associate bodily functions with sex. So it doesn't have anything to do with it. It would be like getting put off you because I had seen you eating your dinner."

I think my DH would be put off if I had a poo in front of him though!

As you can imagine, I will not be crafting with tampons in the near future.

It might just send me over the edge. And would obviously signal total death for my sex life .

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It sounds like your dh's sexual attraction to you is a bit of a fragile affair, Spooky? I think it would freak me out a bit if I constantly had to be thinking "ooh I can't do THAT, it might put dp off me."

But loads of men have affairs, don't they?

And 50% ish of marriages break down.

I just think one can't afford to be complacent.

I couldn't cope with having a dp so easily traumatised by my humanness. In fact, he's boiled my mooncup for me before - just because he was already doing stuff in the kitchen. It's not gory, it's not like making stock from chicken bones or anything - it's a small rubbery cup.

I'd hope most men were a litte more robust than to quake at menstruation.

I love my mooncup - it's great, it's made me feel so different about my period - i love that i don't have to wrap tampons and dispose of them in a bin - that there is no waste at all, it's cleaner and easier and nicer, totally comfortable, totally easy to use once you get used to it.

The first time i did worry that the suction was causing me brain damage, but i got over that and it's fine. Everyone should have one.

I'm confused by custys statement that she can't use anything non human up her fanjo though. I'm imagining horrific things.

If I got to the stage where I was having to hide my tampons because I was worried that my husband might have an affair, I would be taking a long hard look at my marriage, tbh Spooky.

I'm not hiding them. I'm being discreet.

And it's a bit much to start casting aspersions (is that a word?) on the state of my marriage.

Tis just different from yours.

Maybe I should start hanging out on the Bounty site istead.

Though it would be unreasonable to get in a strop, since I did start the effing thread.

Mooncup burkha made me laugh out loud.

Anyone know if they're any use at all during menopause? My mum's having a terrible time and I wondered if it might be worth her looking into.

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I thought as much franny, ah well.

And as for the hiding of tampons OMG!!!
I reckon a mooncup would shed a whole new light on my relationship, I guarantee DP would be amzed to see how they go up there

Well, I think you started it off, saying that our dhs would be put off and that they were going to stray because we had no feminine mystique. I have put forward an alternative view.

So yes, I think it would be pretty off to get in a strop.

sorry, that was to Spooky, of course!

Aw, come on, don't get in a strop, Spooky. It's just a thread about silicone devices some of us put in our fanjos. Not worth sweating about.

Blimey, Spooky, I've knocked my marriage on the head, then. He was changing my sanitary protection for me at one point.

I think the craps are the blood moving through(down?) the vagina by mini-contractions, as it's caught just below the cervix (well it is in me) there are no mini-contractions

My mooncup has completely changed my periods - little pain, virtually no back pain or cramps

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Can I ask again (as it got lost in a mist of feminine mystique) - how are they for going swimming?

er, so is that another Bad Thing i've done then, having a poo in front of my husband..?

i'm rather that you consider using a mooncup would potentially end relationships... it definitely didn't say that on the label. just a blurb about how they was safe, hygenic, easy and ecologically-sound. i'd have remembered 'wrecks marriage'.