what did women do about their period BEFORE pads and tampons were invented? (I don't THINK it's pervy...)
2006-07-24 13:17:32 · 12 answers · asked by May 3 in Health ➔ Women's Health
Your question is not gross.
Before the invention of menstrual products (which have been around for ages, in varying forms!) women did something that is called free-bleeding. Free-bleeding is just letting the menstrual flow go where it wants to go.
2006-07-24 13:25:37 · answer #1 · answered by bone and liquid fishegg 2 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I guess it depends on how far back in history you go. I know that through most of early European history it was old rags and cut bits of cloth that had to be washed. Also, I remember from my cultural anthropology class that, at least, one of the aboriginal tribes in the Amazon, just squat (they don't wear clothes).
2006-07-24 20:24:35 · answer #2 · answered by Sandra G 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They just let it flow. They might have put cloth down there. But way back there women didn't wear underwear. They probably didn't do anything, and just thought it was normal to have a red stain on their butt.
2006-07-24 21:06:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My mom told me about how her pads were cardboard. WEIRD!
In bible times the woman had to leave the camp until they were finished.
I think they just used rolled up fabric.
2006-07-24 20:24:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Shreaded cloth for city women, moss for Native American women
2006-07-24 20:23:10 · answer #5 · answered by waabzhkii 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They used rags folded up. They washed them out and reused them (yuk). I've heard in very ancient days they used moss. I don't think moss would be very helpful.
2006-07-24 20:23:11 · answer #6 · answered by chante 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
add on to one of the answers.. in bible days, anything a women sat on had to be discarded/burned/burried. which suggests that they just let it flow.
my grandma tells me of when she was young they used old rags... washed them out.. reused em.. EWW!
and my greatgramma tells me of how her mother used moss...
so there have been things people have used.
but yea..
-Lyn
2006-07-25 02:31:44 · answer #7 · answered by LanaLyn15 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ewwwwwwwwwww I know Ihave wondered the same thing makes you wonder dont it.lol And what about the cleaning part of it?....hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
2006-07-24 20:31:32 · answer #8 · answered by mcmillin_kathy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cool question. I think they banana leaves
2006-07-24 20:24:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question-I always wondered that.
2006-07-24 20:27:29 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋