For decades, most of the women have been presented with two options to deal with the bloody days – a cloth or a sanitary pad, in that order of our respective privileges. But there’s another alternative that the pad companies don’t want you to know – the menstrual cup.
Menstruation, we don’t talk about. We don’t educate. Not culturally. We only quietly pass on the pads in black polythene bags, hide ‘em under our skirts and hint a girlfriend in a hushed tone about her bloody stain. But it is 2019, and so we shall talk. About uterus, ovaries, vaginas, menstruation and how we deal with it.
Until a few months back, I’d have never imagined I’d fall in love with a pretty-big cup I was expected to insert (read: shove) inside my vagina, let it collect my period blood and keep it inside until I literally remove with my fingers. And yeah, wash and reuse it…
