Of Pads and Tampons

What type of girl are you? Pads or tampons?

 I have friends who swear by tampons. Small, fits easily in your purse and some come in pretty little packets (Kortex). And you don’t get that feeling of a sudden rush of blood when you stand up, that makes you wanna check yourself ( I check, I check!) Easy disposal and the only extra thing you might need is a pantyliner.

And there’s the second group, the ones who give the tampon a wide berth and are stuck to their old pad ways. (By now you know which team I route for) Apparently they fear they’ll hurt themselves and their cervical walls or worse, break their hymen!

<That’s a load of bollocks because a tampon is too thin and small to do that task, besides it doesn’t go that far. As for pain, your walls are already being lubricated by blood so it slides in easily, painlessly. And it goes about its business without you feeling it. If you feel it, you put it wrongly.>

I think they also like it coz better the devil you know than the angel you don’t. That’s what mummy gave you on the day of your menarche and you’re sticking to it. This is fine by me, to each his own. Though how they stand that whoosh feeling in between their legs is beyond me. 

Earlier this week, my pal had an emergency and needed protection asap. I offered her what I had, tampons. She said no. Infact she gave me the ‘Are you serious?’ look and laughed thinking I was pranking her. She only stopped when she saw I was seriously giving her one and telling her how to insert it. That speedy ‘ no’  and how she went on with her search had me in stitches. Yaani you would rather go on for a few more minutes needing a pad while a tampon sits waiting patiently for you to use it? She almost buckled, to take my offer but then she ran off again and doubled her efforts, eventually succeeding.

And it dawned on me, are some women seriously scared of using tampons? Like if they stopped pad production and want the tampon route, even (dare I say it) Always, they’d be up in arms? Or they’d use pieces of cloth? And don’t tell me TSS (Toxic Shock Syndrome, in case you’re wondering.) Its a possibility not an inevitability, besides you just have to be hygienic with its usage. So are there tampon- phobic women out there? Or are you truly pad-philic?