To not wash the inside of my vagina?

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First AIBU so please be nice! There is a huge debate going on on twitter where people are horrified that some women wear tampons in the shower (it seems to be the majority of the many women responding to the tweets who are horrified). They claim it’s unsanitary because then you can’t wash inside your vagina. I thought we weren’t supposed to do this? I’m sure I had this drummed into me as a child. I never have and have never had an infection. Have I been doing it wrong all these years?!

Ah, a GIF, very adult

There comes a point when someone is so thick, they're boring.

Sorry, but how is that a stupid statement?

If you bled continuously day and night for 7 days (as in NO stopping!), as many are saying they do, you would become seriously unwell. That's not stupid, that's just a fact.

Not sure why people are asking if I'm a boy/man when it's quite obvious from my posts that I'm a woman. One that just happens to do something differently. You know that's OK, right?

Oh I agree. I often find there comes a point where people resort to insults when they've got nothing else. So unnecessary.

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Love, of your tampon is near the opening of your vagina your doing it wrong… it should be 3 or 4 inches north of there 🤦‍♀️

No one knows how other people’s bodies work so shouldn’t be accusing them of stupidity for doing what they need to do.

Totally agree. That's why I haven't called anyone stupid. By contrast, I have had several people call me stupid for 'doing what I need to do'. So, your point is?

The vagina self flushes so doesn’t generally need manual cleaning. Unless there’s been a major misplay, leave it be.

So you're now invalidating your own point by telling another woman what she should do with her own vagina?

Yup, got it! 👍

3 or 4 inches north of the opening?

Since the vaginal canal is between 2-4 inches in total, I think you've got your sums a bit wrong. But as you were...

So you're now invalidating your own point by telling another woman what she should do with her own vagina?

I think she's just telling you that what you do with your vagina is a terrible idea, and bad for it.

Wrong again- up to 5 inches is totally normal.

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You're still doing it. How many times can people explain to you? You're also changing your story a bit now we've said people don't die. It's good if you're changing your opinion when faced with facts.

But no, people don't die from having a period for 7 days. Or I would of died at age 13, or 13 and one month etc, all the way up to age 46. IDK how many opportunities for death or serious illness that is but I didn't cark it or become seriously ill.

Because while it was kind of continuous the amount of blood is not massive compared to a human's blood volume.

Obviously if someone has major gynecological issues they can bleed a lot more and they usually don't die then either, though it severely restricts their quality of life.

This!!! Precisely!

It's like the washing raw chicken debate. I think that's an American thing.

I know exactly what she's doing; exactly what she's telling me not to do to others!

Respectfully, I think I know my own vag a bit better than someone on the internet.

I haven't had thrush, BV or anything else in my 45 years on this earth, so I must be doing something right.

my point was that no one should be calling anyone, including you, stupid. Equally you should not be telling their people they haven’t experienced what they clearly have experienced. While you didn’t use the word stupid, you made it clear what you thought of other people.

You’ve been really rude and condescending and killed a thread where people were having fun.

Fun sponge.🙂

Not 'changing my story' at all.
I questioned PPs who said they would 'bleed 24/7 - so continuously - for seven days. 'Kind of' continuous isn't continuous.

I know how painful periods can be - I'm just not convinced that people don't have a few minutes - sans period - to wash properly, dry and put a tampon in/towel on. That's all.

@Jumpingthruhoops how on earth would anyone know if the few minutes u were showering happened to correctly coincidence with the few mins of not bleeding that you might have throughout the day?

I've replied to those who have tagged me. If they've been rude and condescending, I have responded in a similar vein.

One person literally said they 'had meant to be patronising' toward me. Am I supposed to just ignore that!? Similarly, isn't calling someone a fun sponge 'rude and condescending'?

People can do what they want. I personally couldn't leave a waste product inside my body when I had a bath or shower. I thought it was gross at the start of this thread and I still think it.

If you're in the shower it just goes straight down the plug hole. If you're just getting out and you feel it coming, you stop it with a towel then insert a new tampon as quick as you can. Do you not think I've ever had to do this? It's really basic stuff.

I was actually thinking this. And he is shaming women for not doing what he does...

You know nothing about being a woman at all do you? 🙄

@Jumpingthruhoops pretty grim to bleed on your towels rather than just have a tampon in

@Jumpingthruhoops I know how painful periods can be - I'm just not convinced that people don't have a few minutes - sans period - to wash properly, dry and put a tampon in/towel on. That's all.

Do you think women can time the bleeding. And hold it back for the drying off time.
Yeah. You are clearly a man

I'd say it's a lot less grim than having a shower with a waste product still inside you. Obviously.

What a waste of a towel. I mean, most people don't wash their towels after, like, one day, but they would have to that day if they bled on it. Unless it was black and anyone they lived with didn't mind.