I just started my period, and I hate wearing pads. My mom says I can’t wear a tampon because I’m a virgin. Is it ungodly to wear a tampon?
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Of course it's not ungodly to use a tampon. It's ungodly to menstruate though. It even says so in your Wholly Babble. You'll be "unclean" for seven days and on the eighth day you'll have to take two turtles to your priest where he'll sacrifice one as a "sin offering" and the second as a burnt offering.
Take this advice to heart. I wouldn't want you to end up in Hell because of a natural biological process that your deity apparently came up with in the first place, despite it making you "unclean" and sinful.
Don't forget: everything you touch or sit on during the seven days you're unclean is also unclean. And anyone who touches your bed or anything you sit on has to bathe and wash their clothes and be unclean until evening. People who are unclean may not enter the church. See Leviticus 15 for the full rules.
@horsefeathers - the doves or pigeons are only needed if she has a discharge between periods. Let's not scare her ;-)
If you open up a tampon, you'll notice that it is a just a sanitary pad rolled up very tightly. Since it is inserted into the vaginal entrance, it prevents leakage of the menstrual blood and is more comfortable to wear (according to all the research the ad agency I worked for used to conduct among tampon users).
Also, correctly inserted, the tampon does not penetrate deeply enough to affect the hymen. There's literature on this if you wish to learn more.
marching boldly ahead into the 50's!
My mom told me the same thing, first thing I did was march in her bathroom, grab the biggest tampon I could find, and stick it in there,didn't hurt me or affect my virginity a bit.:)
@solomongrundy Yes, they did but some fundies in real life believe that. My mom, a fundie, is the same way as Puzzled's.
What, you HAVE to have a sex with a guy before using tampons?
Like, "Hey, I need to use this, but I'm a virgin, so..."
"No, it's cool, I understand. Let's just go over here...."
*****
"Thanks!"
THEY'RE ALL GONNA LAUGH AT YOU!
My mom started out the same way.
Having used tampons myself, I can safely say that they are indeed safe, and do not affect your hymen.
On the other hand, you do have to be a contortionist or a yogi to actually insert the damn things. ...Okay, I put this leg behind my head, the other one up on the wall, reach around behind the leg on the wall, and insert thi-- OW! Call the chiropractor!
After that, I stuck to pads. Besides, having your pad wedged sideways in your asscrack is a damn good excuse for a bad mood.
@ Michael
Correction, it is contained in unspeakable evil. :P
Ungodly, no. Uncomfortable as hell if you're not used to wearing them, yes.
I want to call Poe on this, but this is from Brio.
Dear Puzzled,
Welcome to the 20th century! (Well, actually it's the 21st, but let's take baby steps, eh?)
You've got four options with the ol'period: pads, tampons, a moon cup, or bleeding through your clothes and any fabric you may choose to sit on. Remember the old "cleanliness is godliness" thing? The tampon is the most sanitary option, and therefore the godliest.
Don't listen to your mother, she's clearly a moron. :D
1. brio is terrible. i read it when i was little.
2. they shouldve added that sure she can use tampons, but using reusable menstrual products like the diva cup or luna pads will make her an insane militant feminist, which is obviously unacceptable.
choose wisely in the feminine products aisle my dear, choose wisely...
In fairness, this is sort of a hearsay piece of fundiness -- it's actually her mother who deserves a 5 rating here (if we could be quoting her directly), but Puzzled deserves only about a 3, and that's only for not immediately realizing that her mother is an idiot for holding such a notion as this.
You don't wear a tampon, you jam it up your jaxie when you bleed. And not it's not ungodly, how fucking retarded is your mum? Very, I'm assuming.
Virgins can use tampons and it might not affect the hymen, or it might but then some girls might get a torn hymen from exercise (so I'm told, can't imagine what sort of exercise would do that), it doesn't mean she's not a virgin any more if she hasn't had sex. Thought that was common knowledge. However, if the tampon does break the hymen, why, don't worry, you can have it surgically reinstated, if your future hubby worries about these things. There, that's better isn't it?
Oh, and don't throw them in the toilet.
Hell no, it's not! Wearing a tampon in no way compromises your virginity. This has been medically proven, and I have to wonder who in this day and age still hold to such old and damaging superstitions. By all means, get some tampax,and start enjoying going out of the house without worrying whether there's a bulge in your jeans.
everything is ungodly, due in large part to there being no god to begin with. do whatever you want about tampons & pads, but start saving money and get as far away from people that start telling you what to do with your body in the name of god. that will go a long way toward helping you live a rape-free and domination-free life.
if god had wanted you to use a tampon, you would have been born with them... cmon, just like the bible, ... if god wanted you to believe all your mom's BS he would have written it himself. but I personally don't have any books whatsoever for which the author is credited as "god" even the bible, with words of christ in red, is simply paraphrased words of a "HALF" God. .. . learn to think for yourself, the answers are out there you just have to actually be intelligent. and no I'm not slamming your intelligence just your lack of drive to use it.
The ungodliness issue is, as far as I am concerned, entirely irrelevent. Tampons cause TSS and uterine cancers. The cotton is usually genetically modified and riddled with pesticides. Then it is soaked in bleach to make it white and pretty! Not anything I'd like to have inside of my body for the better part of a week, every month, for most of my life...
Unless you insert them improperly, tampons don't mess with your virginity at all (they don't break the hymen), so whatever moral code you're on (sans judgment), the regular ole tampon should not be a problem. I find it surprising that your mother doesn't know this.
Yes my child, for LORD said: Le thy menstrations flow freely and onto the land, for if thou plug thine whoo-ha with unnatural fibers, I shall smite thee in righteous vengeance.
So speaketh the LORD (Fallatians 4:19)
Absolutely not!!! Just stick one up there. My mom didn't want me using one either when I was in Junior High, and I sneaked one. Never gone back since. (By the way, read instructions carefully and do wash your hands before and after handling them)
Yes it is, for did god not say what is on the inside was put there by my will and it is complete and as i intended? no, of course he didnt say that, just bung up a jam rag and have done with it unless you want blood running down your damn legs.
Is that a serious question?
If yes, it is not ungodly to wear a tampon, but that is a popular misconception with the religious.
Go with what feels right for you since you'll be dealing with this for the majority of your life.
It's important to remember that according to Leviticus 15, when you have your period, you will be unclean for seven days afterwards. Likewise, anything you sit upon or touch will become unclean, and anyone who touches you or the things you touched will become unclean. This uncleanliness will require the aforementioned two doves to be taken to your priest for ritual sacrifice.
In short, while having your period, try not to touch anything or anyone, so that you don't contaminate them.
Hope this helps.
No, it is not ungodly to wear a tampon. What your mother is concerned about is the breakage of your Hymen. However, if your mother is not going to let you use a tampon [Which is easier and less...Eucky] in fear of the breakage of the hymen, then she shouldn't let you use a bike, or ride a horse, or go into any team sports, because just about anything [Without having to enter your body] will break the Hymen.
ALL AND ALL- TAMPON=/=UNGODLY
Oh, sweetie, you don't need to worry about a thing. Tampons will not do anything that will make you pregnant. Your mother seriously needs to check her resources, and just find out why the hell she would say that. An insane asylum should be contacted, and she should have to go through days of just putting tampons in, and out. See if she gets pregnant. If she does, find out if a penis was stuck up there one of those times, if she wasn't, you're good to go!
Jesus Klingon: Yes, Brio is real. I have a few copies of it around. It's a Focus On The Family thing, I believe.
Also, her advice to 'Confused' made me angry. Stop discussing it? Come on. Family isn't always enough.
Does God use tampons? I would say no, young girl, he does not. Thus, using a tampon is unGodly.
Of course, so is bleeding all over the place.
Wow, a perfect split. 50% fundie, 50% idiot. Is it ungodly to wear a tampon contains one thing about religion, and one thats idiotic.
ok honey dont worry bout it being ungodly, if YOU want to use a tampon then you go right ahead, even your mother she has no right to tell you what to do with your body, unless youre doing something that could cause you harm,
Whats sad is that I bet that that Leviticus line was really about the sanitary dangers of the blood. (DUH!) but then priests added the whole Unclean=Evil so give us crap.
It's funny how some of those laws were simply common sense rulings and not "Religious reasons".
@ Ansem the wise
@All of us
In answering your question about whether or not it's ungodly, just ask yourself "Does this stop you loving God?" "Does this stop you loving your neighbour?" "Does this break the ten commandments?" If the answer is no, then you can shove a tampon up there all you want. (Same is true for a cucumber, dildo or vibrator.)
It's funny because my Turkish stepmom told me the same thing. I was like "I don't give a fucking shit about the integrity of my hymen."
And she was all like, "YOUR HUSBAND WILL NOT LIKE IT."
And I was all like, "YOU MEAN MY WIFE."
I advise you to follow my example.
Re lollike having their new wife hurting and bleeding on the wedding night?
To poor Puzzled; virginity is about not having had sex yet. You don't have sex with the tampon, right? Then you are still a virgin after using one, whether that little fold breaks or not.
@Swede :
> Do men really like having their new wife hurting and bleeding on the wedding night?
No, categorically not. Not then or at any time beforehand.
be careful, if you break your hymen the you must be dragged into the town square and stoned to death.
seriously no its not ungodly. Just dont get cught masturbating with one, yer mom would never understand.
Freedom of personal choice. It's something we people - especially women - in all liberal, democratic, civilised countries enjoy, and not by the women in Saudi Arabia. Ever hear of it? Oh, but of course. You're too 'Puzzled' to even think for yourself. Period.
Here is a prime example of why right-wing fundies should never be allowed political power. Ever.
@Dharmabum
"Poor dumb stupid fundie girl, just go fuck somebody, then you won't be a virgin anymore and you can use a tampon to keep your panties clean."
Seconded. She is in need of a good hard shag, to clear her humours, and cure her of ye olde melancholie.
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