Hello laides – very, very amusing comments. BTW: I work for a large U.S. manufacturer of sanitary napkins (would rather not say which). Here are some interesting facts, based on our recent Q3 2005 survery of 9,000+ women:

71% of women use some sort of pad with or without a tampon, at least 1 day during their period.

54% of women prefer thick pads vs. ultra thin (despite 6+ years of intense marketing of ultra thin).

Sales of sanitary belts and the pads that go with them (with the tabs) have tripled in the past 5 years among 19-34 age group, to be about 3% of pad sales now (up from 1% in 2000).

The last fact is the most interesting to our company and so we dug in deeper on a re-survey of those respondents using the belts and asked “why”? Here are the answers, in order:
- Hold in place/don’t move around
- Won’t stick to my body
- Hold closer/better protection
- Can wear without underwear if I choose.
- Cheaper
- Won’t stick to themselves
- Can re-position easily for better protection.

Karen

Tampons have made life much better. Yay Tampax!

http://www.mum.org/NorwPads.htm

I’m only 35 and I remember my mom using the thong version – the “sanitary belt” as it were. I still shudder.

Thank you, God for the woman who invented “Instead!”