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    Hmmm. I guess I take it back....the commercial just didn't seem to provide lots of info, but it's been interesting to look it up.
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    Default Re: That Kotex commercial about girls in Africa

    I often wondered what girls without access to feminine products do. I don't think they're playing it up at all, b/c think about it. How many times would you have to run and change a sock or something if you weren't using something super absorbant, like a pad. I know girls that have to change their tampons more than 10 times a day when they are at their heaviest...I know a lot of them.

    I personally was impressed with Kotex when I saw that commercial, way to think of an important but completely ignored thing.

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    Oh, when I saw that commerical. I felt so bad for those girls. So I went out an bought some kotex pads.
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    I gotta give it to socks, they've been there for me when times were rough, and I saw no difference from a pad---actually think they're better.


    People in 3rd world countries....what DO they do? Probably make and use washable reusable ones. Shouldn't we being supporting that eco-friendliness and not send paper and garbage over there?



    Ah here it is:



    Maybe I was totally ignorant, as clean water comes into play obviously.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alaska View Post

    People in 3rd world countries....what DO they do? Probably make and use washable reusable ones. Shouldn't we being supporting that eco-friendliness and not send paper and garbage over there?
    Ive read a few different things ranging from - nothing at all, just bleeding freely, to sittng over a hole dug in the ground for the periods duration.

    In a book I read a couple of years ago it mentions women in a remote part of China and how they use a prticular type of leaf. I forget now but somehow the leaf was absorbant and was used like a pad. - It wasnt a common leaf unfortunately so they have to wash and reuse them and even share them.

    My mum told me that when she was a girl she remembers being shown how to use a cloth for when she got her period. It had to be folded in such a way and worn pinned into clothig. Thankfully pads became available before my mum got her periods!

    In ancient Egypt Ive read that they made tampons out of dried leaves. I imagine the sea sponge must have been used in some cultures too.

    Edited to add - there are some intresting points on that site too (mum.org):
    >> * started menstruating later, frequently in the mid to late teens, and stopped earlier, if they lived long enough to experience menopause, thus creating a shorter time for menstruation

    * married earlier, legitimizing the production of children, which reduced menstruation

    * had more children, and used less contraception, stopping menstruation for long periods

    * breast fed their children longer (and more often), which usually stopped menstruation

    * were more likely to be under- and malnourished or sick, or any combination thereof, which can stop menstruation

    It's possible that women attained adulthood and gave birth to children, but never menstruated

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    ^^^ Menstruation was nowhere near as common for the average woman back then, you're right. My stepfather's Granny grew up in a bumblefuck no-stoplight town in the Missouri bootheel, never went to school, never learned to read, but raised several kids and was a hell of a homemaker. She was talking to my mom once about a relative who was suffering heavy periods, and with amazement she exclaimed, "She was just bleeding and bleeding like a young girl!" Took my mom a minute to figure out what the hell that meant - but in Granny's day, only a young girl would have a regular period at all!

    I know back in biblical times the women would spend the week sealed up away from the men, sitting on straw with a rag between their legs. They didn't work or do anything strenuous so they didn't have to make it very portable. In impoverished African towns that's a great question, and now I want to see the commercial! What do they say?

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