washable menstrual pads

[kokosbolla.livejournal.com]

can women complain about anything today?

Comments

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

I was gonna say it looks like an emery board or some kind of file. Ouch.

[misstia]

why do they look like they're made of sandpaper?

[saikaro-x.livejournal.com]

or a nail file!

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

Teufel is German for “Devil.” These are, literally, the Devil's work.

Make of that what you will.

[bolddeciever.livejournal.com]

And "einfache damen-binden" seems loosely to be "simple lady-bindings :P

[anitakay.livejournal.com]

They still make washable menstrual pads. However, they do not look nearly as painful, or stiff, as those ones.

hippie overshare

[inkdot.livejournal.com]

I find them more comfortable than the disposable kind, personally. The ones above look mad itchy!

Re: hippie overshare

[garden_hoe21]

And I somehow doubt you need a belt to fasten them!

Re: hippie overshare

[silera.livejournal.com]

yeah -- I was looking at that. How the hell do you fasten the ones above?

Re: hippie overshare

[garden_hoe21]

No idea!

Re: hippie overshare

[janenx01.livejournal.com]

They must have buttoned onto a belt or something. Those look like buttonholes at the ends.

Re: hippie overshare

[chvickers.livejournal.com]

When Kotex first came out, they attached via a belt (http://www.mum.org/kotbel53.htm) because the adhesives on modern pads hadn't been invented yet.

Adhesives were developed in the 70s but weren't perfected until the early 80s. When I went through puberty in the mid 70s you had a choice between bulky pads that attached via a belt, the new sticky pads that didn't always stick very well (especially if they had sat on the shelf for a few months), and tampons that were uncomfortable and leaky. Plus women didn't shave completely (only girls with intractable crabs that couldn't be killed with lindane did so, which gave shaving a very, very bad reputation), so the adhesive would sometimes get stuck to your hairs.

The high rate of hysterectomies among women of my generation might be tied to the fact that we all hated having periods.

Re: hippie overshare

[inkdot.livejournal.com]

You sure don't! Most fasten with velcro or plastic snaps. Very easy and comfy.

[lady--delirium.livejournal.com]

I use washable mesntrual pads but mine are much much prettier.

[countessof-roth.livejournal.com]

THe one 2nd from the bottom looks like a carpet sample.

[kokosbolla.livejournal.com]

what did they use before this??

[garden_hoe21]

Regular cloth, I guess?

[countessof-roth.livejournal.com]

Old cloths/Rags hence the phrase "on the rag".

They'd uh kinda pin them to a belt round the waist. Leakage was not as much of an issue due to the insane amount of layers (I reenact, and wear up to 7 layers of underthings in the summer and have had "suprises" that didn't get through to the outer layer of the dress, however I use tampons not rags because i'm just not that psycho)

[anterrabre.livejournal.com]

These look...used. :/

YOU LOOK BEAUTIFUL IN A TUBE TOP!!!!

[gangwaygirls.livejournal.com]

I always feel it necessary to read German as if it were some sort of shouting exclamation (probably because of Steve Carell and Dana Carvey (http://www.videosift.com/video/Dana-Carvey-Stephen-Colbert-German-say-the-nicest-things)).

[tudor-diva.livejournal.com]

As if there weren't enough weirdness on the web, there is actually a museum dedicated to menstruation. http://www.mum.org/