The really bizarre thing is that the diva cup people DO say it about childbirth -- they suggest the larger one for female-genitaled people who have either a) given birth (vaginally, one assumes) or b) are over 30.
I can see the childbirth thing, yeah. But I'm pretty sure that in five years I'm still going to be going oi at the SMALL one. It's not THAT large, it's just large-enough-and-AWKWARD. And I can only imagine that people who don't ignore the age thing get SUPER intimidated when they first look at it and go "you want me to fit that WHERE?" I looked at it and went, um... okay, well, this'll be fun, rather than being too intimidated but yeah.
The thing about it, though, is that the pelvic muscles DO squish it down a fair bit and i think that's why it can be 'not-there' in a way that tampons can't, aside from the fact that tampons also suck all your natural moisture out as well as the blood. Because, it still functions as a cup, obviously, but it's not at all the same shape on the inside as it is on the outside. Which makes sense, because the vagina is not ACTUALLY a spherical tube. *g*
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Date: 2010-11-26 10:17 pm (UTC)I can see the childbirth thing, yeah. But I'm pretty sure that in five years I'm still going to be going oi at the SMALL one. It's not THAT large, it's just large-enough-and-AWKWARD. And I can only imagine that people who don't ignore the age thing get SUPER intimidated when they first look at it and go "you want me to fit that WHERE?" I looked at it and went, um... okay, well, this'll be fun, rather than being too intimidated but yeah.
The thing about it, though, is that the pelvic muscles DO squish it down a fair bit and i think that's why it can be 'not-there' in a way that tampons can't, aside from the fact that tampons also suck all your natural moisture out as well as the blood. Because, it still functions as a cup, obviously, but it's not at all the same shape on the inside as it is on the outside. Which makes sense, because the vagina is not ACTUALLY a spherical tube. *g*