Do you think that girls under the age of 17 should have to have their parents permission to use tampons? There is a church from Nebraska that held a function at my school and they were asking people to sign petitions for a new proposition that they want to push next year. They said that allowing girls to use tampons was allowing them to violate their bodies, like having sex. They consider tampon use the same as losing one's virginity. I guess my real question is do you consider virginity to be more of a physical state or a psychological one?
It sounds like the morons who run this church slept through their sex education class-or probably attended "Christian" schools that don't teach sex ed. They are confusing a hymen with virginity, and they're not equivalent.
Virginity is the state of not yet having had intercourse. There's a substantial minority of teenage girls these days (hard to get the figures but I'd estimate at least 5%) who have only engaged in oral sex, and I'm sure many of them even had orgasms and/or participated in simultaneous oral sex. Do they get to call themselves "virgins" just because they still have hymens?
At the other extreme, there is a small percentage of women who were born without hymens. And plenty more whose hymens are unusually shaped and break easily from strenuous but unremarkable exercise. If they've never had any kind of sexual activity, what kind of religious retard is going to say they're not virgins?
Furthermore, it's a myth that tampon usage destroys the hymen. It does in some girls, usually the ones with the precariously shaped hymens, who could just as easily lose them some other way. And of course using it wrong could increase that possibility, and of course that is what girls are likely to do if they don't get any training in their use from their demented elders.
Nebraska is just about in the precise geometric center of the Bible Belt. Their neighbors in Kansas briefly allowed schoolteachers to teach that evolution is false. So what can you expect from those people and their schools?
I'm just operating under the belief that tampons are disgusting ways of stopping a disgusting process. . . . Bleed with dignity.
Ka-Dork, I'm a MAN and I find these things you say about women unbearably offensive. I know a couple of women who grew up with serious psychological problems stemming from the reaction of some caveman in their family to their first menstrual period.
If I weren't a moderator I'd put you on my Ignore List. But unfortunately moderators don't get to ignore people.