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It’s a good day when you learn a new term for something you felt but didn’t realise had a name. Today’s term is “Leakage Paranoia” and it comes via a Kotex survey that reveals 72% of girls wear their daggy undies when they have their period, and save their ‘good’ undies for non menstrual days.
Well, duh.
And then they made it into an ad for U by Kotex that surprised some more than others.
As one wag tweeted: Do girls wear different undies when they have their period? Is this information that was in the public interest? Why no research grant?
Apparently, The Kotex survey of 400 girls between 16 and 24 revealed that 75% experienced ‘leakage paranoia’ and that 75% of girls have left whatever they were doing at the time to check for leakage in case their sanitary products had failed them.
“It doesn’t really matter who a woman is – a politician, a model, a student or retail worker – we are all bound by the fact we get our periods and 7 in 10 of us keep daggy undies in the drawer for the occasion,” Marketing Manager Dominique Chandler said.
Check out this video of girls admitting what their daggy undies look like..
Do you have particular undies that you wear on certain occasions? Period undies, date undies, work undies?
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Really, did they have to do a survey to find this info out? It’s just common sense!
When you have a period you always wear your daggiest undies ready for the bin. Same goes for after having a baby, although – I made sure they weren’t too daggy and black in colour. Can’t have the nurses laughing in the staffroom in their breaks about my horrible undies.
I actually ran out of undies in hospital and had to send my gross ones home with my MIL to wash, lucky she still loves me.
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On a side note- I was hanging out with my gay guys on the weekend and the subject of pads and panty liners came up- they thought the adhesive bit was to stick it to our vaginas!!!! (direct quote) Hahahaha Bless….
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Oh My God! Do they realize that would rip out our hairs?! I have had that happen, the sticky part got stuck and it was so painful..
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That’s the reason I don’t like ones with wings.
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Absolutely!
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Lol, I once heard a gay bloke who never realised that women had two holes. He thought we peed out of our vaginas and didn’t realise we have a separate urethra.
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It’s not just gay guys. I know a hetro guy who had been married for years and still didn’t know.
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I guess there was no need for them to pay attention in health class that week.
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My hubby had no idea either ????
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My grandmother thought that you wore the sticky side onto your skin until about 1998. We asked her why she didnt use proper incontinence pads (always used folded old fabric ripped up- VERY old school!), she gave me a withering look and said “some of us, are more delicate than others down there!” . After a little more investigation we realised she had only ever worn them stuck to her, so had given up very quickly. OUCH!
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oh, i am the opposite… i need good elastic undies during those days, as to keep everything in place nice and firmily
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oh, i am a pad user, so what i really need is a good quality pad
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As a pad user- yes I wear pads opposed to tampons (which makes me feel quite marginalsed by the way compared with my friends) I find tampons uncomfortable and unreliable. Anyway as a pad user, I wear my full breif cotton undies on period days and lacy gstring type undies most of the other times- so I don’t really have a choice. Its hard to stick a pad to a piece of string- haha
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I hate to use tampons also, good to see I’m not the only one
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add a third into the mix!
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i’m the same … thought i was one of the only ones over 20 who was like that!!
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woohoo pad girls unite!
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I second that vote!
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Ditto!
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Before I was married I had a pair of undies called my lucky green’s. They were hideous, you can guarantee everytime I wore them a man would show interest in me. Lol I think they worked because if you don’t want someone to show interest they do and of course I never wanted anyone to see the lucky greens
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Haaa I had some lucky green ones too, they were called my Kermie’s after Kermit the Frog! I think I still have them somewhere…..
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This ad has been bothering me. I do wear my daggier ones when I have my period, but that’s more because no one’s going to see them. Not because of leakage concerns.
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Until my hysterectomy – it wasn’t just period undies, it was whole period outfits. Black skirts 1-2 sizes larger than I normally wore, black stockings, black undies….. oh my goodness, it was hideous…..
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far out- thats a heavy period! you poor thing…
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Between pregnancy, breastfeeding and the pill, I have had about 6 periods in the past 4 1/2 years. My once ‘good’ undies are now on ‘period undies’ duty, and I have some new ‘good’ ones.
You know, how your new ones get a bit old, they get rotated down to period undies, you throw away the REALLY old ones and go and buy nice new ones!
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I thought everyone wore ‘period’ knickers!
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Most of my undies are pretty daggy (think a 5 pack from Big W) but one pair takes the cake. The are a rainbow-leopard skin print which the moment I saw them in my latest 5-pack I knew they would forever be period undies, they are that hideous!
In balance though, I also have some nicer pairs I wear on special occasions or if I want to feel a bit less daggy for whatever reason
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hmm yes I fit into the two first categories too. And more to that, I have special undies for different outfits (heaven forbid the VPL!)
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Yes but they’re not old or daggy, just black to avoid stainage.
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This survey…. oh my. dosen’t everyone wear their crap undies when they have their period?!
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I have gone one lower then period undies- much worse I ran out of clean ones and had my husbands on and forgot until I went for my wax. Embarrassing. I usually save my best undies for waxing
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Regarding your survey, I want to say ‘yes’ to the first two options (after all, a period is a sort of ‘special occasion’). Can you fix it so both can apply? Then you can remove this post
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My sentiments exactly!
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Yes, as someone not trying to fall pregnant my period is always a time for celebration.
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Thanks everyone, fixed
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I would always send a “hi five for no babies” text to my bf when I got my period lol
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