Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihuxf!features 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 Article-I.D.: ihuxf.2493 Posted: Sun Dec 2 04:26:42 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 05:26:38 EST References: <10083@watmath.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 27 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? -- aMAZon @ AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL; ihnp4!ihuxf!features "Don't let the name fool you. What else can you come up with out of initials MAZ?"