Icky but interesting question: How did women take care of 'themselves' before tampons?

[Taverner]

I have always wondered this....

Call me strange.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. cloth pads

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. And rags, natural sponges, moss and I dunno what-all-else *ick*

[redqueen]

5. Yup.

Or just go sit in the special secluded hut meant only for the UNCLEAN!

[Book Lover]

8. You mean I have to sit the hut for a few days

and not cook your food or clean up after your sorry ass? Hmmmmmmm.....

[redqueen]

10. ...

:rofl:

Good point!

[matcom]

2. kitchen sponge

[Shine]

4. Probably moss in ancient times, then we moved on to cotton pads.

:D
Oh joy.

Is your wife on her moon right now? :shrug:

[Taverner]

15. OK - so before the moss

What did they use?

Say - Kalahari Desert. Humans are moving up the African Continent. Lucy is getting her visit.

What does she do?

[Elidor]

6. In before the Lysol ad

Which I'm too lazy to look up right now.

[Book Lover]

7. Icky? Get over it

http://www.mum.org/

[Mountainman]

9. Ever hear the term "on the rag"?

[bicentennial_baby]

11. Why is it icky?

It's natural. Deal with it. :)

[Taverner]

13. Lots of things are natural and ICKY

But not everything is ICKY-POO

Learn the difference :)

[redqueen]

14. Red Wings, baby!

:rofl:

[RadiationTherapy]

16. Oh, godDAMN. Bleh. nt

[redqueen]

18. ...

:7

[Taverner]

21. I swear there needs to be a female superheroine named "The Red WING"

[RadiationTherapy]

22. So that woman that Sniffa berated...lipstick?? Wings?? hmmmm. nt

[redqueen]

27. Lipstick is soooooo

not the same. Heh... if it was... ...

[Taverner]

29. Red Wing Brand Lip Gloss

Stays fresh, even when you aren't.

[RadiationTherapy]

17. You are now: RedWingQueen.nt

[redqueen]

26. ...

[RadiationTherapy]

38. Whoa. Your that actress from "Kingpin"! The one who plays the landlord!

"What is is about great sex that makes me have to crap? You really jarred one loose, tiger!"

[La Lioness Priyanka]

20. yeah but without a tampon/pad it would have been icky.

[RadiationTherapy]

12. You called it 'icky'... you are B-B-B-BUSTED!!!

I will be checking back on this one.

...icky, he says....hahahahaha.

[LeftyMom]

19. They tackled squeamish people who had annoyed them in the past month and bled on them.

At least, that's what I'd do, but I have an anger problem. :P

[Taverner]

23. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

That sound is beer going out of my nose

[Oeditpus Rex]

31. Ever been to the fetish site for that?

Okay, but I bet there is one. :P

[RadiationTherapy]

39. BFP: Best Fuckin Post. nt

[Missy Vixen]

42. Woo-hooo!

>At least, that's what I'd do, but I have an anger problem.<

"And next month, I'm bringing three of my sisters!" ;-)

Julie

[matcom]

24. Taco Shells?

:shrug:

[Taverner]

25. Beer just went out of my nose again

dammit!

[matcom]

28. that is bordering on alcohol abuse

you need intervention

[KamaAina]

30. Just out of curiosity, what's the feature at Tavernertavern tonight?

I'm going to guess something with an extremely high alcohol content, such as a barleywine. :eyes:

[Taverner]

33. Alesmith Yulesmith Imperial IPA - it's on 9%

:D

[KamaAina]

36. Yup, that oughta do it

:beer:

Sober people don't make posts like that! :P

[Taverner]

43. Well - you are reading this post

Which means it must hold some keen interest to you :)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

32. Diapers.

My grandmother said they made diapers. Sewed them themselves.

She was born in 1898.

[matcom]

34. Feather Dusters

it was all the rage

[RainDog]

35. women didn't have as many menstrual cycles, in most cases

women breast fed, which creates hormones that suppress the menstrual cycle. If the avg. female breast fed for 2 years, as she was weaning the child she start to have periods again. Then she may have been pregnant again within a few months and wouldn't have a menstrual cycle during that entire 9 mos, then give birth and breast feed... so out of 3 years, a female may have had only 6 periods or so.

women died in childbirth regularly, too, or lost their babies early.. which would restart the cycle above.

afaik, the thing now is this idea that women didn't naturally have as many periods in a lifetime as they do now.

which tells you nothing about how they handled it. I know from a friend of mine, whose grandmother was a doctor in Poland before wwII, that women who had "prolapsed uteri" - when the uterus collapses and falls into the vagina - were "treated" by using a potato to keep her insides inside... at least where she lived.

[redqueen]

37. I gotta tell ya Tav...

that "take care of themselves" in the subject line... it's not makin me think what you intended to convey there, I don't think.

[matcom]

40. oh they did that too

why do you thing fingernail clippers had to be invented?

:hide:

[Fleshdancer]

41. women fixed the issue a looooong time ago

http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/01/sarahk/hers/school/tampon.html

The ancient Egyptians fashioned disposable tampons from softened papyrus. The Greek physician Hippocrates, writing in the fifth century B.C., described another type of tampon, which was made of lint wrapped around lightweight wood. Elsewhere, women improvised from the materials at hand: in Rome, it was wool; in Japan, paper; in Indonesia, vegetable fibers; in Equatorial Africa, rolls of grass.

[emilyg]

44. Linen strips of cloth.