Oh EW.

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"It is worth noting that although tampons (and increasingly sanitary napkins) may come individually wrapped, they are not sterilized; they are merely bleached white."

Is that true? It came from Wikipedia on an entry about menstrual cups, so it's possibly made by someone advertising for menstrual cups but...dude. Individually wrapped and unsterilized? o.0 my inner bio-geek is screaming for the hills. ::shudders and flails::

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[ponderosa121.livejournal.com]

What slashygood said.

It's like worrying if your food is sterile. Or, maybe more like the whole anti-biotic soap thing. Washing the germs away is better than killing them and leaving the hardy ones, but there is extensive freakout at the thought of soap not actually /killing/ the germs on your hands.

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::nods:: yes. It's just...I get this image of like, a fuzzy petri dish. I have no problem putting random shit in my mouth (cockroaches in chocolate and mealworms in bread and all that) but just...::crosses legs::

[guede-mazaka.livejournal.com]

Dude, we are fuzzy petri dishes. You don't wanna know what's naturally in your lungs and intestines, probably.

*is fascinated*

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Nah, I already know about those mostly. I can ignore pain in other parts of my body, but pelvic pain leaves me literally crying, and thus more wildly paranoid.