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    WantToTouchtheWahine: But are you still a virgin if you're getting an IUD shoved up your snatch in a few days? Eeeeek... I'm worried tampons, evil as I find them, may have... more »
    scarletwine: I truly wish manufacturers (and magazines) would focus less on the hymen/getting lost/masturbation myths and tell girls more clearly about the actual ... more »
    laureltreedaphne: It's not my fault that I have a heavy flow and wide-set vagina! more »
    Lady Skittlehattington: But what if it's a tampon shaped like a penis? more »
    Yahtzii: I can't believe this hasn't come up yet. My apologies if it has, and I tried very hard to stifle this urge but the Mean Girls exploded out of me in a ... more »
    JennaW: So the Taliban got its start writing ad copy back in the day? You know what makes you not a virgin, human race? Having had sex. more »
    Flackette Goes Retro: I remember this exact ad from either Teen or Seventeen, when I was in sixth or seventh grade. Even at the time, I was like "Really? Some people think ... more »
    Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!: I always wanted one of those advice columnists to just give up and reply: 'Yes. yes, a tampon took your virginity. Now marry it or live in shame.' more »
    Lizard in the Wires - Please, call it hamburger time.: Next time anyone asks me to do ANYTHING my response is going to be "I can't. I might break a membrane or something." Doubly if that someone is askin... more »
    SarahMC: Human progress is so strange. I look at a contraption like the iPhone... and then I think about the fact that some people believe tampon use = losing... more »
    hamburgerhotdog: I remember my girlfriends and I were at Pentacostal Bible Camp looking through a (contraband) issue of Seventeen one of us had snuck in when we saw th... more »
    hydrogen_jukebox: Before having sex for the first time, my then-boyfriend used the argument that I used tampons already to get me to give it up quicker.I tried to expla... more »
    dreamypisces: I wonder what the doctors (and nunnery's) thought about OB (which was the first tampon I tried). Having to insert it with your finger - may lead the y... more »
    Sputnik_Sweetheart: A friend of mine once said to me, "They say you can use tampons if you're a virgin, but I don't know [if I believe that]" This was a few years ago an... more »
    stoprobbers: I was terrified the first time I used a tampon. I got my period on the early side, just shy of 12 years old, and was freaked out enough that I was ble... more »
  • #superabsorbency

    "Are You Sure I'll Still Be A Virgin?"

    The challenging - and euphemism-filled - history of tampon advertising is one long, strange trip. More »