What did the old age women used?!?!?

Question

ok, i kno ur gonna find this question weird. but what did the women in the old age used as sanatary towels when they had their periods?

this is sick so far. lol

Answer 1

Have you ever heard the expression "being on the rag"? That saying came about because that's what women used to use to catch the blood from their periods - rags. My grandmother told me that they used to fasten folded up rags to their underwear with safety pins. Thank goodness for modern conveniences!

Answer 2

They used old rags that were left over from towels, sheets or clothes.
They would either hold them between their legs. I can't imagine doing that all day.
Then someone invented slings around the waste and through the legs that held these things in place.
Then came the ones you pinned to the slings around just your waste.

I actually find it an interesting subject and now of a website that is dedicated to just this subject. And the history. Fascinating.

I have this site in a book. E-mail me if you want to know the site address.

Answer 3

In the olden days they wouldnt have had knickers so i guess they just bled and bled some more and used rags as nappies! Probably washed a lot. Some women in developing countries have to go and sit in a hut until it's over cos it's a sign of the devils work or something!

Answer 4

not sure about what the used to catch the blood, but heres an idea for what they did for the pain, and possible where green witches on brooms sprung from!!

This was on a programme about truths behind myths and legends, not sure what it was called, that was the whole reason i joined yahoo answers to find out the name of that programme earlier this year.

Anyway, menstruating women who live together, their periods for some strange reason come around the same time. when they got pain they'd mush up a highly toxic, hallucinogenic green plant and smear it over there faces and put it onto the end of a broom and place the brooms.......
... then they'd be tripping out of their minds in groups on the the end of brooms with green faces, but they couldn't feel the period pain for a while.

I wish i knew what this programme was!! anyone know?

Answer 5

Ancient women used cloths-that they washed, moss, wool, any thing absorbent as sanitary pad/towels. In some cultures, this was a period, (no pun intended), of confinement. Men felt that women were unclean or poisonous, dangerous, etc. (Gee, do you think that was an early reaction to PMS?)

Answer 6

You don,t know you,re born, yes sanitary towels have been around a long time as were toilet rolls, but when millions of people could not afford food to eat, toilet things were a unecessary luxury,so the masses went without,used old newspaper for one use & reusable rag for the other, I grew up in the poverty of the late 20,s &30,s and until I was called upon to serve my country in wwII, I had never worn underwear & in return for being shot at &shat upon I had my first pair of NEW boots

Answer 7

I don't know how far you back you are thinking of but way back when it was considered dirty and I believe a woman layed in bed for the week or however long with towels and linens to soak up the bleeding.....

Answer 8

Yes rags, old terry towels etc. They had to be boiled up in a pan, dried and re-used. The good old days? I think not.

Answer 9

Menstrual pads have been mentioned as early as the 10th century, in the Suda, where Hypatia was said to have thrown her "feminine rags" at an admirer in an attempt to turn him off.

Answer 10

In a book I read theyused like old sheets cut up and wrapped around them like a bandage.