The diva cup

[cezza30]

You got me thinking...Sooooo..I looked it up cuz I was wonderin who did invent our " Cotton Ponies".lol

Egyptians! They used softened papyrus.

Then..The Greeks invented tampons made of lint wrapped around small pieces of wood in the 5th Century BC. I 'll keep my plastic applicator, thank you very much. Wonder how many got splinters?

Earl Haas invented our modern day tampon in 1929.

We've actually got a lot to thank the Egyptians for . . . contraception (of sorts...) dates back to them!

They used various methods to stop unwanted pregnancies, from crocodile dung (one can only imagine how this was quite umm used ) to spreading honey down there. Whilst I'm not sure crocodile dung has ever been proved to be effective at all for this purpose, the latter apparently does have some grounding to it! According to my research (haha I sound so sad...) as the sugar in the honey fermented, a semi-effective spercimide was produced!

Ahh the strange things you can find out when you start looking up Egyptian tampons that's my history lesson for the day done!

 

[vixensghost]

We've actually got a lot to thank the Egyptians for . . . contraception (of sorts...) dates back to them!

They used various methods to stop unwanted pregnancies, from crocodile dung (one can only imagine how this was quite umm used ) to spreading honey down there. Whilst I'm not sure crocodile dung has ever been proved to be effective at all for this purpose, the latter apparently does have some grounding to it! According to my research (haha I sound so sad...) as the sugar in the honey fermented, a semi-effective spercimide was produced

Ahh the strange things you can find out when you start looking up Egyptian tampons that's my history lesson for the day done!

LOL....Croc dung, huh? I can only imagine it would be a great birth control method! The smell alone would put a damper on "gettin it on".

Interesting reading at any rate.

 

[cezza30]

LOL....Croc dung, huh? I can only imagine it would be a great birth control method! The smell alone would put a damper on "gettin it on".

Interesting reading at any rate.

I suppose it would limit your potential men to those without a sense of smell, or the really desperate, or the really weird

Fingers crossed nobody sees my google search history for tonight, or they might include me in with those weirdos!

 

[vixensghost]

Cezza30..LOL @ potential men comment. SOOOOO TRUE!

 

[darcykrista]

Earl Haas invented our modern day tampon in 1929

Interesting that tampons were invented by a man...

 

[SoKlueles]

Interesting that tampons were invented by a man...

lol, well we should thank him

 

[darcykrista]

yea that's messed to have a cup inside you holding some free liquid..?? I don't understand how it couldn't spill or something, it's not like with a tampon it's absorbed. Plus having to clean it? That's disgusting. I'd rather not see a pool of my ENTIRE period.

Besides, and I know this may be an ignorant or negative thing to say, even if all the women in the world stopped using tampons/pads, it's not like there still wouldn't be landfills everywhere

 

[musclemom]

Ladies, how are we ever going to get the MEN to stop thinking menstruation is disgusting if we ourselves are offended by our own bodies and the process?

If you read the testimonials entirely through you don't leave it in for your entire period, you obviously wash it out every so many hours, just like changing anything else, but it's not necessary to do it as frequently. It works on the same basis as a diaphram, it's held in place by the same internal muscles that keep a tampon in place.

 

[vixensghost]

MM....Yikes, we hit a nerve? Sorry.

My "man" is not disgusted by it in the least. Typically only "boys" are grossed out.

However, I'd sure love to have him put up with the monthly process just once.

 

[SoKlueles]

well its not the period that grosses me out, its the cup that kind of reminds me of a dixie cup that people keep in their bathrooms to drink out of
ok mm, if u do it, let me know how u like it, and if its a good report, i will try it just because i trust what you say. I suppose we are all used to pads and tampons and the idea of a cup in the vagina(especially those like me who dont use diaphrams(sp))