A bridge too far ...?

I remember as a teenager being mortified walking across the camp site between tent and toilet block with a loo roll in my hand...

I remember when I was hugely pregnant with DD having to buy maternity pads. They were quite large and didn't fit into my shopping bag. It was also hammering down with rain and the paper bag they were in got very wet. As I got on the bus they burst out of the bag to the floor. There was no way I could bend down and retrieve them . An oldish lady '!' Picked them up for me. "There we are pet" she said. "You'll be needing those sooner rather than later". I was mortified

LadyinSpain I don't mind pregnant tums. I think everything about pregnant mums is lovely . I was brought up to hide pads etc. Not sure I would need to now. Less keen on have Tena in view I htink as it is a sign of age normally. But I suppose it isn't really, just as well might be from pregnancy.

How times have changed. When I started my periods in the sixties you could only buy sanitary pads in our local Wool shop. Mum would whisper her request and the lady reached under the counter and placed the packet of towels into a thick brown paper bag. Only then were they put on the counter. I only got a dozen towels to last throughout my period and that was never enough, yet i couldn't ask my mum for more.

I don’t like the idea of doing things for show but if I was carrying a full bag of shopping I wouldn’t bother hiding them if tampons were on top they were on top I wouldn’t have any worries about that at all

Ladyinspain, won’t your pharmacy deliver your, er, items if they’re on prescription?

I was brought up in the 60s and 70s and things like periods were definitely private to the point of being taboo!!! I think men need to understand this part of being female and that it is natural.

As for Tena pads, I don't think it's too late to get those pelvic floor muscles working and help with the problem. I sympathise tho with Ladyinspain as that is a problem that pelvice floor exercises might not help with

I once met a policeman I knew well in the supermarket, all I had in my basket was a bunch of flowers, a box of cat food and a pack of Always pads I often wondered what he made of it

My Mum used to send me aged 7 upwardsto the chemist with a ‘note for the lady’ and a half a crown
I was given a brown paper bag & a bit of change to take home
I’ve just realised what must have been in the bag !!!

TMI.
Nowadays there is very little, in fact, nothing off limits. No modesty, (not to be mistaken for prudishness) no curbs on uncouth language, few manners, little respect.
The bar has been lowered to ground level.

Lol at 'old batty' - you obviously know me only too well !

The one that REALLY gets to me is the advert full of 'a bright, young thing' cycling through a city centre wearing tight fitting white shorts to advertise Tampax. Hahahaha - as if 'dealing with the bleeding' is all there is to 'having a period' .................. what about the stomach cramps/pains/unable to move for two/three days. If that had been me, I'd have needed a towel as well as a tampon at the same time - besides which, I never learned to ride a bike .

Wonder if that same young woman will be advertising Tena/Always in 30yrs time .

On a similar topic - is this acceptable? I was going UP and escalator and coming down in other direction were 2 young pregnant ladies---both were wearing cropped t shirts, and their VERY pregnant tums were completely exposed!I know the days of maternity smocks are long gone , but really,? Do we need to see your bulging tummies? (Im a facepainter in my spare time, and have constantly refused to paint pregnant tummies- I just think some things are private-am I wrong?)

Due to herniated discs in my back- there is pressure on my bladder and I JUST make it to loo in time! BUT I now have a dilemma, my Dr has prescribed LADY NAPPIES!!! Noooo! I am too embarassed to actually go into the chemist to claim them-and I need my other meds that are on the prescription! I'm tempted to feign "Mistake! they aren't for me"! I don't actually need them that much!

Mentioning the adverts, do we all have to be blue-blooded aristocrats to use the product?

When I went shopping for my mother to the local shop, if she needed STs, I asked her to write a note I could pass over the counter. Not only did it say what was required but, asked for the packet to be put discreetly in a brown paper bag before handing it over.

I had a lifetime of IBS and had no problem with popping into shops to ask to use the toilet - it was preferable to the alternative!

I live on a boat and have to empty the toilet cassette (errrr...it contains what goes into the toilet). Anyway I often have a chat with someone on the way. We know what we are carrying...hahaha...and think nothing of it. Tenna ladies though...I would be embarrassed having those in my hand while having a conversation....

oldbatty have you been spying on me?

oldbatty amd maggie

I haven’t seen the Tena for men advert? The other one is ‘In your face’ all the time ....

we don't all walk around farting away, do we? That's part of life too.

Sssh, Grannyknot, you’ll be giving people ideas!

Though I think some folk I know are already on board with this one.

oldbatty

Why can't Tena adverts show an overweight ,huffing ,puffing woman dressed in ill fitting sweaty clothes running to visit relatives in a care home, before going home to take off her bra and crash out in front of the telly with a bottle of wine and a giant packet of Doritos?

Tena for men is advertised

Isn't it just a matter of self respect to keep some things private? Everyone knows women have periods before the menopause. Thanks to TV advertising, pads have improved to the point that women are far more liberated and confident when menstruating. Not like the old days!

Same goes for bladder weakness pads. If somebody has a problem with occasional incontinence that's their affair. I don't want to know if they have haemorrhoids or IBS either.

I suppose it's yet another case of, 'If you've got it, flaunt it!'