Girl's Behavior 
Guy's Behavior 
Flirting 
Dating 
Relationships 
Fashion & Beauty 
Health & Fitness 
Marriage & Weddings 
Shopping & Gifts 
Technology & Internet 
Break Up & Divorce 
Education & Career 
Entertainment & Arts 
Family & Friends 
Food & Beverage 
Hobbies & Leisure 
Other 
Religion & Spirituality 
Society & Politics 
Sports 
Travel 
Trending & News 
Do you think menstrual products should be free? (Page 2)
Ask to an AI Persona
Gamer Bella
With my passion and experience in hobbies and leisure activities, I'm here to offer personalized...
Love Doctor Brad
Welcome to the heart of understanding and transformation. I am your guide on this journey to...
Advisor Smith
With years of experience guiding individuals in their education and career paths, I'm here to...
Cinematic Lily
With my rich background and passion for the arts, I share insights on films, TV shows, and...
Laura
Have questions about GirlsAskGuys? I'm here to help!
Travel Buddy
I'm your go-to travel companion, passionate about exploring new destinations and experiencing...
Fashionista Amy
I'm here to inspire and guide you with a touch of latest trends or advice on personal style.💅👒
James The Foodie
From savoring Italian classics to discovering the bold flavors of Japanese cuisine, I explore...
Athletic Chloe
Whether you need tips on improving your game, insights on fitness and nutrition, or just want to...
Click "Show More" for your mentions
Most Helpful Opinion(mho) Rate.
Learn more
Learn more
We're glad to see you liked this post.
You can also add your opinion below!
What Girls & Guys Said
Opinion
76Opinion
I think they should be provided like toilet paper, soap and paper towels are.
Exactly
I guess I would go along with this. I would like to see some oversight so that some crook doesn't steal a truckload of the stuff and take it to Canada to sell on the black market.
sell tampons on the black market? tampons. on the black market. reread your statement and try see what's wrong with it <3
SOMEBODY has to make that stuff and they don't do it for shits & giggles. Toilet paper's not free, water's not free, soap's not free, food's not free.
Agreed, however I think companies capitalize too much on things people constantly need. There’s no reason for women’s products to be $10 a pack. You can find the same brands at the dollar store for literally a dollar and they are still making profit off those sold at the dollar store.
✨ government subsidies ✨ or we can just make Bezos and Musk pay for it 🙂
Lol if only they would pay for those things. They aren’t nice enough, but yeah I refuse to spend $10 on tampons. I’m not going to even lie, I use paper towels sometimes as pads to save more. Idc what people think lol
Yeah I added up how much I've saved over the past 8 years since I switched to reusables and it's honestly nearly 1.5k
How comfortable are the reusables? Do they feel the same?
The pads I have aren't the best but I'm sure you could get better quality ones. Cups take a while to get use to and get the hang out but once you do its just amazing not having to worry about it for 12 hours. And period underwear are perfect first first and last days for me, I find them really comfortable, kinda just feels like wearing a liner.
@kyleelyn199723 I agree with you, there! And the way Joe's driving inflation through the roof, one thing (among HUNDREDS of others) that he doesn't seem to understand is that, if you get people to pay more for something, now, the people making that stuff will KEEP IT at that price until the next inflation wave hits! But, still, if YOU were the one making tampons all day, every day would YOU want to do it for free?
Why Musk, I'd make Soros and Gates pay for it!!
@FunMonkee my point is even pricing them at a dollar at the dollar store, they aren’t doing it for free lol if they were not making profit off those stores, they wouldn’t have them in their store because your point of “why on earth would they want to do it for free” it’s simply billion dollar companies continuing to mooch and be greedy off of women that can barely afford their brands.
@kyleelyn199723 I don't blame you!! I wouldn't want to pay that much for tampons, either!! That IS an unreasonable price!! Last time I bought some (for my ex-fiance) about 20 years ago, they were just over $3.00 for a box of 40!!
How has a president solely caused inflation to go "through the roof"? They have very little impact on inflation...
@FunkyMonkee I refuse lol. I’ve been sitting on the same 3 tampon boxes for over 6 months because I’ll use paper towels 🤷🏻♀️ idc
Isn't there a sponge that can be washed out and re-used several times, too?
I wonder why no one's ever come up with some kind of vacuum that just sucks all the blood out in a few seconds and you never have to worry about the other 5 or 6 days?
@FunkyMonkee yes, you can use a sea sponge. It's not very popular though. Vacuum would be incredibly painful and is not how periods work.
@FunkyMonkee if only our bodies were that simple lol there are sponges, but I have paper towels at my convenience. People will say “ew gross” but I’m not the one spending thousands of dollars a year on stuff that should be available for a cheaper price at every store
@kyleelyn199723 I know but, you're asking for them to be free.
Right, they SHOULDN'T charge $10.00 a box but, they can't just make them for free.
@FunkyMonkee actually I never said they should be for free. I said they shouldn’t be marked up to over 200% of their profit mark. Companies will literally profit over 200% off of only one package. ONE package.
First off, he's having more money printed with nothing to back it up. It's already worth less than Monopoly money! secondly, this is, now, the worst economy we've ever had and he's not doing SHIT to fix it, but doing everything he cane to make it worse!! How you figure he has nothing to do with it, I don't know.
@kyleelyn199723 That's cool! I'm glad you found an alternative. i probably would, too, if I was a girl although, at my age, I wouldn't need them anymore unless I continued to take birth control pills.
What is it that you refuse?
Well, the vacuum was just a idea.
@FunkyMonkee I think you need to educate yourself on lots of things. I take birth control and still get a period.
Depends on the person and birth control whether you get a period or not. Or like me I can just choose when to have one or just never have one.
@Smashingdoozy I think most birth controls you can be choosy because I literally thought I lost my birth control pack only a week in for a few days and my period started. Tomorrow it will be gone because I took two of them tonight. But yeah birth control has sugar pills that you take for a week so you at least have a period because a long time ago they had birth control pills that would go for a month straight on and on and women were getting pregnancy scares since they weren’t getting their periods
They put the sugar pills in so the church would be happy with it. You don't have to take them, don't have to have a period. You can just start a new pack once you get to the sugar pills. I'll have one every like 2-3 months because that's when my body usually starts spotting anyway
@kyleelyn199723 I don't think it's gross. Besides, I'm more about function than fashion when it comes to such things. Whatever does the job is fine!
How about just putting one of those huge band-aids over it until the 5 days is done, then peel it off and let it ALL out at once!
Maybe a strip of duct tape with a pee hole.
A vampire bat?
Maybe a Dutch boy that can stick his finger in it for 5 days?
How about a mouse? Well, they ARE soft and kinda shaped like tampons. On heavier days you can use a rat.
I'll see if I can think of SOMETHING.
@Smashingdoozy my exes mom told me it’s because of pregnancy scares lol which I can agree because I get a pregnancy scare when I don’t see my period. I just skip the sugar pills but wait a week before I start the new pack.
@Funkeemonkee lol bandaids aren’t that absorbent.
@kyleelyn199723 Nobody said you stop getting periods by taking the pill! What I said was that, even if you're at the age of menopause, you'll still keep GETTING your periods as long as you keep taking the pill!
Smashingdoozy You mean, you can choose when to have a period?
^ that's not true. The pill doesn't make you have a period
Yes that's exactly what I said
It's not a real period when you're on the pill, you don't ovulate when on the pill.
@FunkyMonkee why would any lady experiencing menopause continue using a pill that gives her pregnancy symptoms? You literally feel pregnancy symptoms when on birth control.
@kyleelyn199723 I know, I was just joking. Sometimes I put a Band-Aid on something and it's soaked and running by the time I'm ready for bed!
My sister is supposed to be going through menoause right now but she's still getting her periods. She said she asked her Dr. why and he said that it's because she's still taking her pills and, if she'll stop taking them, her menopause will start up. The hormones in the pills are telling her body to keep having periods.
@FunkyMonkee why is she still taking the pill?
@kyleelyn199723 I suppose she figured that as long as she's still having periods, she had to keep taking them but, it's BECAUSE of the pills that she's still having periods. From what I know, she should've stopped having periods about 2 years ago.
In a civilised world, no woman should be unable to procure menstrual products. If she's poor, they should be free. If she's unemployed, they should be free.
I think menstrual cups should be free. They make less waste in the long run.
I think that if period products aren't free, condoms shouldn't be free either. 🤷♀️
Not the same thing, period products are more like toilet paper. Also condoms aren't free everywhere.
@jforn02 you're right, period products being free IS more important than free condoms, as sex is optional and periods are not.
I've never seen a free condom
@David_Bayer fr? where u located? I'm in Canada but like every town to city here has at least 1 health center that gives out free condoms, flavored or non.
It was like a block away from our elementary school so friends and I used to go over on our breaks grades 6-8 (usually making the older kids go in of course) and wed get a ton to blow up like balloons
That's pretty cool. I live in Czech Republic. Most people just buy one.
No of course not, it costs money to produce them. Should toilet paper be free? Should food be free?
Yes...
NO! If the business wants to provide them OK, but I will never support personal care products being free. Yes, I know things like TP are provided.
Mom and dads should buy for their girls. I will for my daughters.
at least not taxed. This is something women cannot control it’s a natural body function.
Resusable pads , cups are reasonable
Underwear is unrealistic
No really. You get a coucher so you can go buy your size
Not what i meant
Underwear is not necessary and thus luxurious
I'm talking about period underwear. Ones you bleed into
Yeah ik
yes. At least for people with a low income who can't afford it.
No because it costs money to make them and there's no other way to get the funding for that production than the profits made.
Bs...
... OK, how am I wrong?
There's ways to pay for it. The cost of disposable products (which add to our global waste issue majorly) is excessive.
I guess you can take that up with supply and demand issues as well as the inflation of the dollar.
No women should be starved and put under extreme physically duress for lengthy periods of time so they stop having periods instead.
@Exterminatore
You are an idiot because that could cause other health problems.
Dark humor is like food. Not everyone gets it.
You call me an idiot yet you think I’m serious? I guess you don’t know what sarcasm is do you?
It should be in country like India. But in States It should just be cheaper.
Girls asking for free menstrual products is like men asking for free shaving razors.
How? Women buy razors too... Infact we spend more on them.
Simple, we have facial hair that either has to be kept up or it will get ridiculous.
Being an adult means you gotta buy your own hygiene and grooming items. Women have to be adults and buy their own hygiene items like men.
You don't have to shave. That's a choice. Women don't have a choice about bleeding.
So you'd be cool with women under 18 getting free menstrual products then?
Parents should provide their kids with needed hygiene products, yes.
Sure if they can afford it. Or what if in my case they neglected to?
Then that's probably child neglect kinda like if a parent didn't buy their kid soap or toothbrushes.
Cool... But nothing gets done about that so how do we help kids who were in my situation? We give them access to free products.
Should toilet paper be free?
What the fuck?
Was unaware you were spending $10 on toilet paper a month. Maybe you should work on your gut health ☺️
What about soap, toothpaste, heat, water, food, etc?
Only issue is that it takes time and money to make them. Being handed everything is the path to a ruined lazy society.
why do women put used menstrual products down the toilet
women should start to think of the environment and use reusable sanitary products
Trust me a lot of us would if they weren't quite as expensive
Reusables are cheaper in the long run but a lot of people don't have the money to make the initial purchase let alone wasting money on finding what one is best for you.
then why put them down the toilet
along with face wipes
Not everyone puts them in the toilet dude. A lot of women know they're supposed to go in the rubbish.
why are beaches full of tampoon applicators used tamoons sanitary towels
Some women don't know/don't care... We also have a trash problem... Sewage water doesn't go straight to the ocean... It goes through treatments where things like that are picked out and disposed of, perhaps you should take that up with the people disposing of them.
Well it's not like I do it so how I am supposed to know. Some people just don't care about the consequences ig
sewage treatment works are designed to treat water so it can be drank
Nope.
Every man needs to shave and yet we have to spend a shit ton more on razors than you do tampons.
No you don't. You don't need to shave. Women typically go through more razors than men also.
Also razors are far less money than tampons... Can get 5 cartridges for $5 which would last you over a month.
@Smashingdoozy yes we do need to shave
No you choose to shave. You could trim, you could just grow it out. Perfectly acceptable. Shaving isn't a necessity.
Stop acting like you deserve more rights than us because you’re female. Just suck it up and pay for the stupid thing.
No you.
I don’t know what dollarstore shit razor you use but blades are between 30-40 dollars for 4
Even so, women also buy razors. We go through more razors. You using 4 razors a month?
Bah haha You are desperately hanging on to your victimhood aren’t you.
When women stop having endless female only protection, clubs, groups, housing, shelters, gyms, scholarships, funding, government programs, etc...
and women start paying equal amounts of tax (look it up), working the same hours, the same bullshit deadly jobs, and are equally “disposable” by society...
we will give you your tampons for free, but until then... your boyfriend or husband will have to pay for them for you.
Women would get taxed more if we got paid equally. Women would work more if we weren't expected to be the homemaker. Women wouldn't need women only shelters and other places if we started holding men accountable for their actions. Seems like you're trying to be the victim here.
they should
i mean look at the gov giving free money to anyone who is not working
Yes and No, if it is reusable like you said AND if they can't afford it then sure make it free for them but otherwise NO.
Free as in the government provides them?
No.
If a business wishes to provide them for free?
Sure.
Maybe not free, as people still have to work to produce and sell them.
But they should certainly be super cheap in price.
Yes I think so. They also should be available in all public bathrooms and schools. It happened to me so many times that I didn't have any with me.
It should be free for people who can't afford it. My sister's and nieces don't deserve free menstrual products.
No, not at all. We now live in a society where men and women are rivals, not partners. Women claim to want independence and freedom, so act like it and try to support yourself
No, because the oh so essential things called food, water & shelter are not free.
Should we pay for men's electricity and water use when they have wet dreams and have to wash their clothes, too?
That's not a month occurrence and if it is for you maybe go see a Dr.
So if it was a monthly occurrence you think it should be?
Sure if for some odd reason every man in the world had a wet dream 5-10 days a month then they should absolutely be supplied with a means to deal with that. And you know if that was the case they would have it without asking.
No, I don't know that. That's silly and you have some weird, delusional perception of our society. People don't bend over backwards for men, quote frankly, if anything, it's the opposite. Men are left to fend for themselves while women are catered to. If a woman is crying on the side of the street, how many people are going to stop to help her? And how many would stop to help a man crying on the side of the street?
And shouldn't we just be having the government pay for toilet paper or tooth paste? Both men and women use those, right? If it's something that we need then it should be provided to us, right?
Yes I'd it's a necessity it should be supplied.
Okay. So if someone is unresourceful and is careless with how much they use, others should have to pay for their increased and unnecessary toilet paper use? Or should people only get a ser amount of toilet paper?
Nope. They cost money to produce. When the government subsidies stuff one of two things happens. They get really expensive or they get really terrible; sometimes both.
I'm good with your suggestion
Yeah, but good luck finding manufacturers willing to give it for free.
In countries where major poverty exists sure but ultimately someone has to lag for this
Nope. Why don’t we give out free deodorant because our bodies sweat?
Yes it should be free
I think they absolutely should be
I do I mean every woman goes throw it.
Yes. Period poverty is a substantial problem
Yes , but then again it's for your natural cycle
I think they should be cheap not free.
They are quite expensive!
Yes. Simply yes. But don’t tell us about it.
why not? because at your big age, a natural process like menstruation grosses you out? DESTIGMATIZE PERIODS
@oowoowoowoo sure…destigmatize. But we still have to go down there to EAT YOU BITCHES OUT. You want this on our minds?
Yes. We want you aware that blood can come out of there so you don't freak out when it does and then embarrass us because you're insecure about it.
Sorry, it’s one or the other.
For you maybe.
Just a quick Q: do you take shits in front of your SO?
I definitely have 🙂 he's eaten me out on my period too, not everyone thinks like you 🐱
Well that works for you. I think most people are like me…though we all think that. So prob all wrong.
Yeah every guy I've ever talked to wants to fuck ass... If you want to fuck ass but you refuse to fuck a girl on her period then what's wrong with you? If you wanna eat a girls ass but you won't eat her out on her period (with a tampon/cup in) what's wrong with you? I don't know preferring shit over blood must be weird. 🤷🏻♀️ Never really experience anyone being grossed out by periods and if they were I'd probably drop em real quick.
That is contradictory. Shit gets everywhere.
They both get everywhere if you're not careful.
I’m never careful during sex.
Then you're a shitty partner...
You don’t have to be careful 15 years into a marriage.
You do if that's what she wants.
When you get to 15 years in a relationship get back to me.
When your relationships is fulfilling get back to me 🙂
Oh it is. But each our own…
Is toilet paper free?
How much is toilet paper vs tampons?
When you go to a restaurant, McDonalds etc and use the toilet, what’s the going rate per sheet of toilet paper?
The question shows that you never took an economics course. Everything that is given away as free was paid for by someone.
Obviously everything is paid for by someone, thanks for explaining the rather obvious.
However we have free sanitary products here in the UK, supermarkets are providing them for free, Scotland as a country provides them for free.
Free at the point of use / availability.
Bit like good medical services free at point of use.
@ChrisMaster69 So you live in a welfare State.
Yeah things like medical free at point of service.
Where having a baby the money goes on getting things for the baby and not paying insurance or medical bills
No, not unless men get the equivalent
For what? Their dick bleeding?
Condoms perhaps. You don't necessarily only get free stuff for bleeding, otherwise, we would all get free bandaids. I don't understand why women feel they are somehow entitled to free things in general.
We bleed literally every month. Bandaids are used rarely. Contraception should be free anyways and that benefits both genders.
Contraception can't be free in a Capitalist society like ours. All that can happen is that the cost is shifted to somebody else.
You know damn well what people mean when they say it should be free. Don't act stupid.
No, I really don't. What do you mean by "free"?
in the uk lots of contraceptive places literally give out free condoms. but we don't get free sanitary products.
@SnakeBoop So complain in the UK
Free at point of service. Obviously taxes pay for it
So here in the US, if taxes paid for stuff that only women use, that would be a very good reason for an equal protection lawsuit from men.
Eh it's come under health care 🐱
No, it is not health care, but even if it were, in the US nobody gets free health care.
Except it is healthcare.
US taxes still in part go to healthcare.
No, it certainly is not healthcare. Healthcare means thing that treat or prevent illness,
Nope it's the maintainance or improvement of health. Tampons and pads are classified as medical expenses.
Classified by whom?
They were listed in the CARES act some.. the government.
You have a link for this?
I gave you the name of the act you could google it...
I could, but I am really busy.
Not too busy to reply 🙂
"
SEC. 3702. INCLUSION OF CERTAIN OVER-THE-COUNTER MEDICAL PRODUCTS AS QUALIFIED MEDICAL EXPENSES. (a) HSAs.--Section 223(d)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is <> amended-- (1) by striking the last sentence of subparagraph (A) and inserting the following: ``For purposes of this subparagraph, amounts paid for menstrual care products shall be treated as paid for medical care.''; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: ``(D) <> Menstrual care product.--For purposes of this paragraph, the term `menstrual care product' means a tampon, pad, liner, cup, sponge, or similar product used by individuals with respect to menstruation or other genital-tract secretions.''."
www.govinfo.gov/.../PLAW-116publ136.htm
oh yeah - that is the IRS who can't afford to be even LESS popular.
Not free. But for sure very cheap.
No. Make them subsidized for low income people.
Maybe at hospitals and the like but publicly no.
Absolutely!
Yes.
FREE!!! 🙌🏼
The hell yeah. Let's put an end to period poverty
They should be at least tax free if not free
yeah, being a woman is punishment enough
Hell yes
Yeah definitely
Yes..
Yes 👍
Till 21 yes
I do feel like it’s especially hard for children and teens to have access to menstrual products that they very much need. Not all kids have parents who are willing or able to provide these supplies for them. Until 18 at least, that would be very helpful.
no I dont
For sure