Tampons are just like the “flushable” asswipes they have out now. They may be “tested” to flush under situations they put it through in the lab, but those simulations don’t actually represent the conditions of a vast majority of sewage systems today and they can wreak havoc over time. Are you going to clog the toilet…

Like it’s easy to kinda assume a tampon would break down or fall apart in toilet/pipe/sewer conditions — it’s just a wad of white fluffy stuff. But pads are all HEY HERE’S SOME LEAKPROOF PLASTIC LINING AND THEN SOME MORE PLASTIC and ....? That’d be like flushing half a diaper. :|

WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE FLUSHING PADS?

My dog is way too smart for his own good, and I have not yet found a latch for my bathroom trash can that he can’t figure out. He also (and I apologize for the extreme grossness) likes to eat sodden tampons. This means I have to put the trash can somewhere out of his reach whenever it’s shark week.

You will not believe how many plumbers I’ve had to call because of stopped up toilets, only to discover someone flushed an overnight pad down the toilet. Pad-flushers, stop. You are embarrassing me.

No one told me not to flush tampons, so I did for years and years.

getting one of those smiling tampons tattooed on me asap.

Preach it. It’s the kids who end up having to take on the emotional burden of ambivalent parenting, and they’re the only ones in the scenario who didn’t deliberately put themselves in the path of problems.

I agree this is something worth looking at, although the implications are on the whole family (parents, child and potential siblings) who are an “oops” is extreamly serrious.

How many times have you heard “we weren’t trying but we decided to stop using birth control”?

That is so fucking gross. “Hey, you’ll just go through a serious medical procedure that costs a lot of money so I don’t have to wrap my dick, right?”

what do you do for contraception if you don’t know what you want?

I had a guy I was dating not want to use any form of protection (which was never going to happen) because he just assumed I would have an abortion in the case of accidental pregnancy. I told him I would not, which is why I always use at least one form of contraception. He was completely shocked that someone would not…

Ambivalence towards birth control seems like a recipe for disaster. Unless both parties are on board for a baby should fun times result in pregnancy, it seems pretty dangerous to just assume that all will be just fine should it happen. I’m much more in favor of planned pregnancy and taking proper precautions to…

No. The answer to your question is No. Why should we be mourning less reliable forms of contraception that let women leave pregnancy to chance or to accidentally-on purpose “forget” to take the pill (even if it’s subconscious), rather than a foolproof method that forces you to make up your mind and decide what you…

These discussions are always so focused on ourselves. Pregnancy by definition involves multiple people (a partner in reproduction who also consents to becoming a parent, a future child). Creating a whole new human being shouldn’t be a matter of “whoops”, and there’s no reason to be nostalgic about a time when it more…

I seriously do not understand people that use the “pull out method”. That’s not a method. That’s having unprotected sex and hoping for the best.

Also why PUAs have a thing called “peacocking” in which they believe that women have basically the same sexual preferences as birds.

Well, I certainly don’t approve of what they did but you know, Republicans are always saying they want immigrants to really embrace the American way of life.

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