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If 50% (thereabouts) of the population of the world is affected by this for what is usually decades on end, we can all talk about it, right?

Are the squeamish gone yet?

I started at age 9 and I'm still going strong. Fertile, we are, the women in my family. I use the standard complement of tampons (unscented), pads and mini-pads or "panty-liners" as they young kids call them.

Many, many years ago (I'm thinking back in my Young Miss reading days), I heard about this cup thing you could insert and um, rinse out now and then. It brought an end to the need to purchase yer monthlies, which appealed to me. -hey, when I started? I had to use the thing that you could attached to your pants front and back with safety pins and city-girls wore a belt with...WHAT THE FUCK?  I liked the idea of not having that surfboard (1" thick and 10" plus length-wise) sliding around -pins worked only minutely better than the belts, from what I've heard  with subsequent "accidents." The article said they had to be mail-ordered. I couldn't afford it at the time and forgot about it.

I stumbled upon The Keeper -damn, just restocked the monthlies and it's apparently the same thing or at least basically the same. They're available in latex and silicone and pre-birth or post-birth sizes. It's interesting. I don't know if I want to use it and my fear would be it leaks. -thereby rendering it useless  It offers a 3 month return policy (ew) but I saw one review where some woman found hers uncomfortable and has waited 5 months so far with no refund.

There are some other brands, too, but they seem to all come from something originally designed in the early 1900's.

Hasn't caught on much, eh? Consider, you can buy reusable, washable "glad rags" but the women in my family just called them "rags" -hence "on the rag" and literally used old fabric that was soaked in a bucket and washed for reuse. If you're going to be washing your own, it sounds to me like one of these "cups" -if they really don't leak could be a good buy.