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From: features@ihuxf.UUCP (M.A. Zeszutko)
Newsgroups: net.women.only
Subject: Re: feminine "protection"
Message-ID: <2493@ihuxf.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 04:26:42 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  2 04:26:42 1984
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I remember some advertising for napkins and/or tampons insinuating
that "no one will ever know".  Presumably, the protection is
against anyone finding out that you're menstruating.  It would be
horrible for anyone to find out, now, wouldn't it? :-)

The advertising "features" for the product "always" sounds, to me,
an awful lot like the same "features" found in babies' diapers.
You know, the "extra layer of protection which draws wetness
away from [baby, your body]".  And the "body-shaped" contours!
Just what is a "feminine shape"?

I've always found it interesting how the manufacturers make such
a big deal about this so-called protection.  Some of the tampon
people seem to think it would be best for a woman's reproductive
system to be divorced from the rest of her body; else, why would
they have those horrid plastic applicators?  I mean, the mere
presence of applicators implies an unwillingness to touch
oneself "down there"!  

In a similar vein, has anyone heard anything of those vaginal
deodorant sprays that were being marketed ~10 years ago?
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