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Women's underwear gets an upgrade

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Re: Women's underwear gets an upgrade

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Post by teamhappy »

cheshire137 wrote: post #43
teamhappy wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Realised that the second I pasted the text. It's midnight in Germany ... That's the original link I found: http://askville.amazon.com/AMERICAN-WOMEN-TAMPONS-PADS-PERIO...

And here is another statistic: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22980411

They're both not clear though I do think it's fair to say tampons are preferred. Just google for "tampons vs. pads".

Re: Women's underwear gets an upgrade

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Post by Mz »

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…

FYI: Menstrual blood is not like, say, blood from a cut on your arm. It is clotty, nasty, disgusting stuff. Menstrual blood has been collecting in the uterus for some weeks, creating a lining on the walls intended to become a placenta should one get pregnant. And when a woman fails to get pregnant, the body decides to shed that lining.

It's really not pleasant stuff to deal with. Plus, it is contaminated by mucus of varying amounts and thicknesses.

Re: Women's underwear gets an upgrade

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Post by teamhappy »

Mz wrote: post #52
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…

FYI: Menstrual blood is not like, say, blood from a cut on your arm. It is clotty, nasty, disgusting stuff. Menstrual blood has been collecting in the uterus for some weeks, creating a lining on the walls intended to become a placenta should one get pregnant. And when a woman fails to get pregnant, the body decides to shed that lining. It's really not pleasant stuff to deal with. Plus, it is contaminated by mucus of…

"Not pleasant to deal with" is a lot better than "gross" :)

Re: Women's underwear gets an upgrade

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Post by larve »

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."

how do you use 16800 tampons over a lifetime? that's one a day for 46 years.

Re: Women's underwear gets an upgrade

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Post by jlees »

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…

Odour would be one of the main concerns, but I love the idea of this as an incredibly transformative hack.

Re: Women's underwear gets an upgrade

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Post by ghshephard »

larve wrote: post #56
teamhappy wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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."

how do you use 16800 tampons over a lifetime? that's one a day for 46 years.

Well, if you change your tampon ever 2-3 hours, then you end up using 4-5 a day, which can run up to 30-35 tampons a month, which averages out to a little more than one a day.

Re: Women's underwear gets an upgrade

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Post by astrieanna »

ankey1 wrote: post #35

This doesn't seem like an upgrade from Dear Kate's (dearkates.com) products except for the partnership to give back. Love the few pairs I have from Dear Kate, they work really well.

Looking at there websites, this one claims to absorb 6 teaspoons; Dear Kate's claims to absorb 3 teaspoons. That's the only difference I can see, beyond the partnership.
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