'Glue for labia'

[ooohsopink]

A US chiropractor has 'developed' a 'glue' that makes your labia stick together when you are having a period, to hold back the menstrual blood until you next pee.

Apparently, this is hygienic and will help women from becoming distracted by their monthly menstrual cycle.

Discuss.

Sorry, puzzled by all the people getting annoyed because someone said "Discussed." People, it is just a humorous/jokey way of starting a discussion by teasingly invoking the language we used to get in exam papers. Lighten up--you sound ridiculous!

DISCUSS not discussed. Need more coffee.

I'm a bit of a patent geek, so I had a look at the image file wrapper for the patent - that is to say, the full prosecution proceedings.

What's frankly more disturbing is that there is a significant volume of prior art cited against it.

Which is to say, in English, he ain't the first to have this idea. The others mainly had the idea of using sticky pads rather than just glue, or the idea of sealing up other orifices. But he's not as inventive as he'd like to think he is.

Put the application number 13/311030 into the US patent office's search engine for the full transcript of all the to-ing and fro-ing.

It's also clear from that file wrapper that he's spent an awful lot of money prosecuting the application. He's had eight office actions, which is a lot, and he's argued them all with a proper patent attorney, the senior partner at a law firm. I've seen a bill from that kind of attorney where he recorded two hours at several hundred dollars an hour for "lying awake thinking about the case" so the overall cost will have been easily in the tens of thousands.

The good news is that he hasn't tried to patent it anywhere else. This is possibly because the USPTO is batshit grants patents for inventions every rational organisation would eyeroll at that wouldn't be patentable in other jurisdictions.

So it's unlikely that we'll be treated to it in Boots any time soon.

People, it is just a humorous/jokey way of starting a discussion by teasingly invoking the language we used to get in exam papers. Lighten up--you sound ridiculous!

This. I can't believe that you are reading a thread on a man who wants women to glue their labia together and you think that a well known figure of speech is really the main thing which is worthy of comment. Precious much!

Way more practical drawbacks than benefits. Silly man. I'm going to invent a glue for sticking penises to men's legs so they don't suffer inconveniently timed erections.
Discuss I think is like an exam question and therefore, amusing and tongue in cheek. Not offensive. Everything HAS to be offensive. Yawn.

Sorry haven't yet read the full thread but a product for women called

MENSEZ!!

Men sez what? That he knows how to fix the problems of women's periods

If I want my period collected it'll be in menstrual cup.

Going to design a product called
WOMENSEZ (patent pending)
It'll involve something to prevent wankers like this talking out of their arse.
Not fully planned it out yet.

I've invented rubber pads - simply bounce the flow back up your vag and store till a convenient time when your brain is functioning again.

This guy and the one who tweeted about how women should just hold in their periods until they go to the toilet are soulmates!

What happens if you suffer with stress incontinence. One cough, sneeze etc. and the floodgates are opened! I will stick to pads until my fertile time is over I think

Yeah well, those days are way behind me (thank gawd). But if I still needed santary products, I think I'd be telling this guy, to go glue his own bits!

....and, come to think of it, do men in general, actually understand that blood flow during a menstrual period, cannot be controlled any more than you could control the blood flow of a deep cut? Maybe he's thinking in terms of applying a tourniquet?....

I think men in general do.

Fuckwits may not.

I'm going to invent a glue for sticking penises to men's legs so they don't suffer inconveniently timed erections.

Perhaps this glue of his, which is clearly suitable for glueing the most sensitive parts of the genitals, could be used as contraceptive? Men could glue their foreskins shut for sex. Totally perfect solution!
(I mean, who cares about male anatomy and shit? That guy clearly has no idea of female anatomy, so ...)

Good gravy! Sadly I think Freud may have agreed with him though. He was of the opinion that hysterectomy cured "hysterical" women, because he thought the uterus caused hysteria in women. No advocating of the cheerful lopping off of penises in hysterical men though...

I bet people were sceptical when tampons and mooncups were first invented. Doesn't sound like a terrible idea to me.

What about it doesn't sound like a terrible idea? Which parts of his idea sound like they might work?

@Gwenhwyfar that's a joke, right? As PPs have said, this is basically temporary FGM. We already know the effects of having menstrual blood collecting inside your vagina for long periods of time: infection (not "just" UTIs but ascending pelvic infections that can affect your entire reproductive system and fertility), vulval abscesses due to those infections, increased period pain from the pressure of the backed up blood, vaginal calculi (bit like kidney stones but in your vagina)... need any other reasons it's a terrible idea...?
Not to mention that the guy clearly isn't motivated by a desire to help women; he's motivated by his ill-informed disgust about the "leaky" female body.

We already know the effects of having menstrual blood collecting inside your vagina for long periods of time

I wasn't even thinking that far, but ... how the hell is that "temporary" aspect even supposed to work?
The inside of the vagina is always moist, a glue that would adhere on that would wreak serious harm on the sensitive skin there. And certainly not be so easy to remove that you can do it in a public loo.

I'm wondering if this would increase the risk of TSS or is that only something associated with tampon use?

(Forgive me if that's a stupid question - it is a sunday!)

I would love to see him try to sell this on Dragons Den. That would make great TV

Oooh yes, MrsDoylesTeabags, that would make brilliant viewing!
Fortunately I am past the age of periods, but having suffered from fibroids it would have taken the Hoover Dam to hold back the flow! What a Dipstick the man is.

"We already know the effects of having menstrual blood collecting inside your vagina for long periods of time"

That's exactly what the mooncup does isn't it?
I'm sure this particular invention isn't well thought out, but it doesn't mean it can't lead to something one day and, as I mentioned, I'm sure people were disgusted by the idea of tampons at the beginning.

What could it lead to that could possibly work and be comfortable?

Different kinds of tampons have apparently been in use for centuries, so I don't know what the levels of disgust would have been in those days. And anyway, this stupid idea doesn't disgust me, it's not about recoiling with disgust. It's a stupid impractical, probably unworkable, idea that would be painful and uncomfortable. Plus the guy who is peddling this idea clearly is disgusted by women and holds them in total contempt. He wants to persuade women to temporarily glue their labia shut in mimicry of what happens permanently to girls and women who have had FGM done to them. No thanks.

I don't even know how this would work, anyone with even the slightest understanding on gynecology and menstruation can see that.

Not to mention that the guy clearly isn't motivated by a desire to help women; he's motivated by his ill-informed disgust about the "leaky" female body.

Clearly women shouldn't actually be going out with their disgusting bodies. After all, we can't think while our brains are addled by blood loss, so we're not any use to anyone then, so we may as well be locked up for the duration.