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Re: Women's underwear gets an upgrade

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Post by teamhappy »

fulafel wrote: post #40
teamhappy wrote: post #38

I googled for stats on tampons vs. pads and according to a paper some 3/4 of all women prefer tampons anyway, so I'm not sure they actually need a replacement for pads? I'm amazed that almost everybody using the word "gross" in this thread seems to be a women. I thought if anything men would be the problem. While searching for the paper I actually found a lot of women calling pads disgusting which I though is a littl…

Where did you read tampons are more common? I found this which sounds like pads are used more: http://lipglossandabackpack.com/feminine-hygiene-around-the-...

Here's the paper: http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/8852185/Kohen.pdf...

The first sentence is: "Tampons are used by up to 70 percent of menstruating women in the United States today, and the average woman may use as many as 16,800 tampons in her lifetime."

Re: Women's underwear gets an upgrade

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Post by [deleted] »

istorical wrote: post #31
zasz wrote: post #30

This is actually a really good replacement for pads. They say their underwear can hold one to six teaspoons. There are five milliliters to a teaspoon, and according to Wikipedia, the average period produces one to six tablespoons total. There are three teaspoons to a tablespoon. So their underwear should be able to easily cope with one day's worth of flow, since it should be able to cope with half a period to an enti…

I think you neglected the factor that flow varies over the course of a period with a shape like sin(x) from x=0 to x=3.14. Or in other words it starts off slow, peaks, then peters out.

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Re: Women's underwear gets an upgrade

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Post by cheshire137 »

teamhappy wrote: post #41
fulafel wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where did you read tampons are more common? I found this which sounds like pads are used more: http://lipglossandabackpack.com/feminine-hygiene-around-the-...

Here's the paper: http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/8852185/Kohen.pdf... The first sentence is: "Tampons are used by up to 70 percent of menstruating women in the United States today, and the average woman may use as many as 16,800 tampons in her lifetime."

Using tampons doesn't rule out using pads, too. If I use a tampon one day, I'm one of that 70% of menstruating women that uses tampons. If I use a pad when I swap out that tampon, I'm now also one of the x% of menstruating women that uses pads.

Re: Women's underwear gets an upgrade

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Post by peterwwillis »

istorical wrote: post #31
zasz wrote: post #30

This is actually a really good replacement for pads. They say their underwear can hold one to six teaspoons. There are five milliliters to a teaspoon, and according to Wikipedia, the average period produces one to six tablespoons total. There are three teaspoons to a tablespoon. So their underwear should be able to easily cope with one day's worth of flow, since it should be able to cope with half a period to an enti…

I think you neglected the factor that flow varies over the course of a period with a shape like sin(x) from x=0 to x=3.14. Or in other words it starts off slow, peaks, then peters out.

The average tampon will hold 5mL. Sanitary pads hold 5mL-15mL. These things hold 29mL.

Re: Women's underwear gets an upgrade

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Post by cheshire137 »

bignaj wrote: post #20
trhway wrote: post #6

would be interesting to hear a woman's opinion here. My understanding was that panties are usually bought on the merits of fit and, especially, quality of material. Is the built-in pad an improvement or gimmick?

I analyzed this pretty critically with my girlfriend who is sitting right next to me and had heard of them before. She agreed that there was definitely a demand for this product, but that 1) the cost was too high 2) she would rather just buy regular panties + some tampons or pads to put in her purse 3) it may be more applicable for women who have had children and have more issues with incontinence/etc (we're both 23)…

And if we're talking period panties, I'd rather spend $8 on a pack of 8 cheapy Walmart panties than 6/$24 at Vicky's Secret.

Re: Women's underwear gets an upgrade

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Post by bignaj »

cheshire137 wrote: post #46
bignaj wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I analyzed this pretty critically with my girlfriend who is sitting right next to me and had heard of them before. She agreed that there was definitely a demand for this product, but that 1) the cost was too high 2) she would rather just buy regular panties + some tampons or pads to put in her purse 3) it may be more applicable for women who have had children and have more issues with incontinence/etc (we're both 23)…

And if we're talking period panties, I'd rather spend $8 on a pack of 8 cheapy Walmart panties than 6/$24 at Vicky's Secret.

Yeah, that too. I think women have already figured out cheaper/easier solutions than this.

Re: Women's underwear gets an upgrade

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Post by lauradhamilton »

drcube wrote: post #37
lauradhamilton wrote: post #26

DAMN that's some expensive underwear. $47 for one?

They give away like five pairs to women in need for every pair you buy.

I think that would be a nice bonus if the panties were priced in say the $13 range. I wouldn't pay these prices though.

I wonder how much margin there is at the current price point. If it costs them $15 to make one their product might be DOA...

Re: Women's underwear gets an upgrade

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Post by ksenzee »

teamhappy wrote: post #38

I googled for stats on tampons vs. pads and according to a paper some 3/4 of all women prefer tampons anyway, so I'm not sure they actually need a replacement for pads? I'm amazed that almost everybody using the word "gross" in this thread seems to be a women. I thought if anything men would be the problem. While searching for the paper I actually found a lot of women calling pads disgusting which I though is a littl…

Tampons vs. pads is like Ruby vs. Javascript. Not mutually exclusive; used in different circumstances.
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