Would you Glue your foof?

Neyite

A Kansas Chiropractor has came up with a lipstick-shaped glue for your period. You basically glue your labia minora shut, let your period collect inside, and when you pee, the glue is dissolved by your urine. It will stop us being gross and distracted and the inventor cannot figure out why us women have not came up with something like this before. I mean, it's so obvious innit? :rolleyes: The screenshots on the FB link mansplain explain the perceived problem and the solution better than I could ever hope to paraphrase.

http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/21/someones-making-a-feminine-lipstick-that-glues-your-labia-shut-to-seal-in-your-period-6462253/

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208593042680351&set=pcb.10208593043160363&type=3&theater

robyntmorton

Simple answer to the question in the title - No. Just... No.

njs030

No.

Edit- His own brother thinks he's crazy, there's a screenshot in the facebook comments!!

Neyite

A good cough and you'd be in trouble!

njs030

I'm curious how would one liquid dissolve it but the other wouldn't?
Is that too scientific a question? He doesn't seem to have explained this...

robyntmorton

I can see the posts in Women's Health Issues now:

HELP!! I used Mensez, and no matter how much I pee it won't come unstuck!

Neyite

notjustsweet wrote: »

I'm curious how would one liquid dissolve it but the other wouldn't?
Is that too scientific a question? He doesn't seem to have explained this...

Something about specific amino acids in urine that would dissolve the glue, but sweat, mucus, and blood wouldn't. Not very scientific, but he did take out a patent in January for the product, so I'm sure he has a plan.

Probably useless for women who haven't enough labia to glue together, or ones with menopausal flooding, or mild incontinence. Wonder how it copes with clots? Or would pubic hair reduce the effectiveness of the glue?

Then you've got the whole hygiene side of it - he claims its more hygienic to have the period collect inside, it comes out in one go etc. But it's a lipstick shaped pritt-stick type of a thing. Wouldn't re-using the glue stick for months be even more 'gross' than a period??

Methinks he's done little or no research of menstrual products currently on the market as he thinks we only use 'diapers' or 'plugs' and likely not actually had much product testing or feedback from women.

bee06

I like how he made it look like a lipstick to appeal to us girls.

I actually don't have enough words to say how disgusting I find this idea!

sullivlo

My initial reading was "omg gross no way."

Then I read it again and thought "omg gross nfw".

But I met a friend for drinks last night and was showing her the articles, assuming that she would also say gross, but she said that she would use it because she hates tampons and this would solve lots of problems for her.

But still. Gross.

miamee

Do you have to direct your pee at your labia for it to work? Or does mere proximity to pee dissolve it? I'm a bit confused.

And also never likely to use it.

rainbow kirby

Hell to the no.

"Glue" and "labia" are two words I don't want to hear in the same sentence.

mahamageehad

I also saw this. I don't believe he ever talked to a women before developing this. Seriously. Between pads, tampons, liners, cups and those padded knickers things, is there really even a market for this *if* it worked?? My favourite part was the part where he said women were too distracted once a month to be productive and able to think of ideas like this. :rolleyes: it feels like a solution designed by a man who thinks "ew period bloody is icky and unclean, I don't want to have to deal with it or see it so girls mustn't either"

One eyed Jack

mahamageehad wrote: »

Between pads, tampons, liners, cups and those padded knickers things, is there really even a market for this *if* it worked??

Absolutely!

(even if that is an unfortunate reality)


I wouldn't even have seen this had it not been for a friend of mine who knows how I'm squeamish about all this sort of stuff and consider any talk about it completely inappropriate, sending me the link, but even I had to laugh at this review -

A man has invented a period product and we're FREAKING OUT - https://www.her.ie/health/man-invented-product-glue-vulva-shut-period-freaking/334166?utm_source=whatsapp&utm_campaign=onsite_share

You can just sense the utter despair of the writer :pac:

jimgoose

mahamageehad wrote: »

...it feels like a solution designed by a man who thinks "ew period bloody is icky and unclean, I don't want to have to deal with it or see it so girls mustn't either"

It seems to me like a "solution" designed by a man who has never, in fact, met an actual woman, or if he did he didn't like her very much. I mean seriously, glue your hoo-hah shut? WTF?!? :pac:

Neyite

One online comment suggested this might have more use as a male product to glue the foreskin shut as a kind of condom. I think it was obvious which penis should be first to try it.

Bambi985

I would've thought gluing your genitals shut with all the menstrual blood congealing around your vagina for hours would be a lot more "gross, nasty and unhealthy" than totally normal and healthy period blood flowing out of you.

Seriously the underlying "ewww periods are gross" message at the root of this is just unnecessary and offensive.

midlandsmissus

I would use it!

goose2005

Worth noting that chiropractors are not real doctors

sullivlo

midlandsmissus wrote: »

I would use it!

But why? Would you not be concerned of leakage, and how even does it work??

mahamageehad

There was a really great scathing review from a gyna, I'll find the link later, where she basically said for this to work the glue would have to be so strong that micro abrasions and potentially even actual fusing of the skin could be a side effect. Don't forget how much movement there is in that area- standing, sitting, stretching....