Ewwwww, girl blood, gross, get it offa me!!!

[serene]

Seriously? Grown men still think it's hilariously, cringeingly embarrassing to buy tampons??

(My comment, which may be removed -- I don't see much but "Har, har, you're totally right, it's embarrassing!" responses there:

It’s a health product, like band-aids. Only people who think menstruation is some kind of icky gross thing (aren’t those only fourteen-year-old boys?) should make a big deal about buying them for someone they love. I don’t fuss if I have to buy band-aids or jock-itch cream or an enema for my partner — their health is more important to me than some prurient “ewww” reaction that I outgrew in the fourth grade.

(As to why there are so many absorbencies, it’s to prevent toxic shock syndrome (TSS), which, though relatively rare, is fatal. Fatal is bad. Much worse than someone thinking you might be partnered with someone who — EWW! — menstruates.)

My partner says this when we occasionally have to deal with menstrual issues (say, blood on the sheets because of a surprise onset): “Well, I could solve that by not sleeping with women. I like sleeping with women, so I guess I just accept that a little blood is part of the package.”

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[maize]

Yeah, I don't see the hilarity either.

I've bought tampons before. Not often, because I haven't been asked to buy them often, but when I've been asked I have. The experience was pretty much exactly like buying any other product, with surprisingly little added hilarity.

I *will* say that the number of varieties are daunting, but provided with the name and/or description of the exact one I'm to buy, there's no particular issue. I'm also at a loss as to why having a cell conversation about it while standing in the aisle would be so awful. Is it that different from calling up to ask if the other person needed crunchy or smooth peanut butter?

[serene]

Okay, I did not need the image of crunchy or smooth tampons. ;-)

[maize]

I used the same analogy on his blog, so hopefully he'll be terrorized by the mental image also. ;)