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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Re: Your vagina isn't sterile.

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Cry me a crested raging river, Iowa.

::snorfle:: heh, good points, as is commodorified's below

Re: Your vagina isn't sterile.

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If I came off as kind of snotty, I'd like to apologize. For some reason I thought this was a community journal (tmi_chix), and I would normally phrase comments to people I feel personally friendly towards in a much nicer way...

Re: Your vagina isn't sterile.

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::shrugs:: I kinda got that sense, 'cause like, I'm laissez faire about stray bio-matter otherwise and am asian so I eat random stuff that most people turn their noses up at. I cramp badly, and am thus paranoid.

Re: Your vagina isn't sterile.

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Iowa?

:looks around:

You called?