#tampons

[chubbsgory]

#b000ty #indifferent #cglb #tampons #greta van fic #selfie love #huesos.txt #lui

[mysharona1987]

#News #gop #indiana #democrats #republicans #politics #health #tampons #periods

[tanuki-kimono]

Cw: We are going to talk here about periods, and sex education in the past. Read this note according to your own sensibilities :)

How women dealt with periods during Edo period, article by shunga enthousiast Shungirl who made a paper pad following instructions found in makura bunko 枕文庫 - ie ancient sex books illustrated with erotic ukiyoe.

One of such makura bunko is 渓斎英泉 Keisai Eisen's 閨中紀聞-枕文庫, first published in 1822. It details Chinese remedies recipes for menstrual pains and irregularities, give tips about sex, and information about menstruations and pregnancy. From a modern point of view, some beliefs are outdated, but it was then such a bestseller it went through several reeditions.

Several words were apparently in use during Edo era to designates menstrual period: keisui 経水, gekkei 月経, tsukiyaku 月水, etc.

When girls went throught their first period, their females relatives or nannies would taught them how to deal with them. One method was to use paper as sanitary products (please note people without easy access to paper probably dealt with periods differently).

__________ 御馬 paper pads

Sanitary pads, such as the one recreated above by Shungirl, were then called mima 御馬 (probably as a pun on true "mima" which were then fine horses own by noblemen, or attached to sanctuaries as mounts for gods etc) or simply ouma お馬 ("honorable" horse).

Ouma were made from inexpensive recycled paper called Asakusagami 浅草紙. Sheets were folded 8 times, tied with twisted paper strings (koyori 紙縒), and then wrapped with another layer of folded paper. It was secured once again with paper strings.

Part of the strings could be left long so to tie around the waist, or/and pad was hold into place by wearing fundoshi 褌 loincloth (which would also help prevent leaking on inner tights).

Asakusagami quality was low (it was also used as toilet paper) so paper pads had to be changed often, meaning you had to fold quite a lot of them to go through your period!

Shungirl folded the pad above following instructions found in the book 実娯教絵抄, which provided several other "models":

__________ 詰め紙 paper tampons

Another method for dealing with periods were tampon-like paper bundles which were inserted into the vagina, the 詰め紙 (tsumeshi? I am not sure of the reading).

This method may have first appeared in red-light districts (?). Beside its use for periods, prostitutes also used those tampons as method of contraception (OP has an interesting article on this subject).

By the end of Edo period and into Meiji, paper tampons were widely used even by women who were not prostitutes - despite voices branding this method as unsanitary.

__________ About girls' coming of age rites

Menarche (first period) was an important milestone for girls, and was celebrated as such via specific rites (shochō o iwau 初潮を祝). Those differed a lot from places to places, and also depended on social status.

Celebrations would concern close family, but often spread to wider community who could received for example a festive meal (sekihan 赤飯) for the occasion (some Edo era senryû poems stress how mortifying this publicity could be!).

Interestingly, some traditions were also pretty sweet: in some places, mothers would sew 3 stiches into their daughter's underskirt (koshimaki 腰巻き) as a good luck charm, hoping their periods would last only 3 days <3

Those rites were part of coming of age traditions (seijoshiki 成女式) which marked the start of a young woman adulthood. Another example is the blackening of teeth (ohaguro お歯黒) which usually started around 16-17 years old.

Celebrating menarche publicly was a way of advertising that the girl was no longer a child and would "soon" be a bride. Yet, if menarche often took place around 13-14 years old, in reality it was somehow unusual to have girls married so soon!

Before marriage, especially in non-noble/samurai families, young women often started their sexual life via flings or yobai 夜這い ("night crawling" ie pseudo-secret nighttime encounters) before any wedding actually took place.

#cw: periods #cw: sex mention #japan #japanese history #edo period #edo era #periods #sex education #sex history #sanitary pads #tampons #paper pads #ouma #mima #paper tampons #tsumeshi #coming of age rites #ressources #references

[sissydavida]

How many of you have ever worn a tampon or a panty liner?

#tampons #pantyliner

[a-sip-of-milo]

“Ew pads are so gross, it’s like wearing a diaper” you know tampons can kill you, right.

#tampons #period cramps #menstruation #menstrual health

[leftistgamedev]

So, turns out this finnish company made tampons for trans men. Like they’re the only people who have done it, they’re saying periods aren’t a gender issue, and it’s pretty cool. TERFs are losing it though saying it’s sexist to separate periods from gender, when they are quite literally separate because trans men exist. One fucking finnish trans guy did a thing and they’re losing it holy shit.

#tampons #periods #transgender #trans man #transmasc #terfism #gender #menstruation

[correctopinionhaver]

got these for all my female followers under 5'3"

#tampax #tampons #weird

[bitchesgetriches]

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#menstruation #tampons #menstrual cycle #saving money

[tattoorue]

#funny #funny post #lol #life #funny meme #funny memes #lmao #couples #too funny #periods #tampons #go fuck yourself #texting #motivational quotes #epic #best comebacks #married life #marriage

[mysharona1987]

#Israel #menstruation #news #period poverty #democrats #republicans #politics #tampons #women #free palestine

[xxalphaclownxx]

i drew this for a crack fic @creative-creatures wrote, uhm, its my silly goofy boy tyler, whom i love with all my heart ❤️

(you can find the fic on ao3 here)

#woof gin’s art meow #total drama #tyler td #tampons #tdwt #team chris is really really really really hot #td tyler #oh how i love this silly little man

[starlightshadowsworld]

It's 2023.

... Its 2023 and it's the first time tampons and pads were tested with blood.

... You know the products period having people use when we have periods.

The things that are supposed to be designed to absorb blood.

Have for the first time been tested with actual blood!

Are you fucking kidding me?!

Yeah the reason there's blue liquid on the adverts isn't for censorship no no no it's because they've been using saline and water to test how absorbent these things are.

And I don't think I need to explain that blood is thicker than a water.

We have a whole fucking proverb about it.

The people doing the study reported that there isn't any study that exists prior to this.

And suprise they aren't as effective at absorbing blood like initially believed.

Women have been saying this shit for years, people with heavy periods have been saying this shit for years.

And no one gave a fuck.

And said we were just over exaggerating or it can't be that much blood.

And they weren't even designed to absorb blood, but water.

Tampons have been around since the 1930's.

Pads have been advertised commercially as period products since the 1880's.

And no one has ever thought to see if they could do the timing they were being marketed for?!

I'm so pissed.

#Periods #feminine hygiene #Tampons #sanitary pads

[joyishome]

Is this person okay in the head? You know what else hasn't been available forever? Cars, laptops, phones, does that mean we can suddenly survive without them? Fuck no. What even is this ideology????

#get educated #like get it the fuck together #free gaza #free palestine #free west bank #gaza #palastine #ceasefire #current events #palestine #palestinian children #palestinian woman #sanitary pads #tampons #woman of palastine #womans rights #womans voices #free palestinian children #Free Palestinian woman #help palastine #help gaza #help palestine #Get educated bitch

[spareplanets]

i think we should advertise menstrual products to trans men the way we advertise deodorant to cis men. i think that would be really funny.

#transgender #trans man #transmasc #trans pride #pads #tampons #menstruation #menstrual products #gender dysphoria #transisbeautiful

[high-quality-tiktoks]

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#video #tiktok #tiktoks #wtf #usa #united states #united states of america #politics #idaho #period #periods #tampon #tampons #republican #republicans #conservative #conservatives #chris.mowrey

[heterorealism]

#heterorealism #heteropessimism #feminism #misandry #men aint shit #feminist #feminist memes #menstruation #dark feminine energy #gender inequality #period poverty #tampons #healthcare