Ordered to use tampon

To the ladies here: have you been ordered to use a tampon? (e.g. mother, sports teacher...)

Be more specific.

Do you mean in a scene, in puberty using a tampon instead of bleeding through your clothes and all over yourself, after an enema? ? ? ?

Susie: In puberty. My sister was ordered to use tampons by her PE teacher so as not to skip any of the compulsory swimming lessons.

You know, using a tampon or any other similar appliance is a personal decision. If a PE teacher (an excuse for a jock to get a teaching license) ordered me to wear a tampon and I didn't want to (and some religious groups would refuse for religious reasons), I would wear a too small one, so I would have proof I wore one and I would wear it incorrectly so I would bleed through. OR, I would not wear one and say my period came early. FUCK THEM, This sort of thing is a personal decision.

A period is only a few days a month, so it someone doesn't go for a swimming lesson, it would be no great loss.

I actually do not see this ever happening in real life in any school district I attended, but since you posed a hypothetical question, I gave a hypothetical answer.

Lets just say, that would be a cold day in hell.

It wouldn’t fly for me nor would I let anyone tell any of my 5 daughters what to do with their bodies.

That would never happen in this day and age in the United States. Can you imagine parents bitching? They already bitch about the smallest things. I am a school nurse and I have never heard of it happening. I can remember the first tampon I tried and it was a disaster. I even wrote about it. I was still a virgin and maybe I did have it in wrong because it was uncomfortable. But when I tried to take it out was really bad and really hurt. I didn't start using them until I was 17 and had lost my virginity.

For my sister this happened long ago, in days where parents were more respectful of teacher's decisions. I however ran a quick Web search and it seems such things still happen today in French highschools (came across messages posted by female teenagers threatened of bad grades in PE and/or detention, wondering whether this was abuse of power). I guess that the teacher back on their threats if parents protest, but not every girl dares talks to parents about such issues, and not every parents wants to spend the time to go see the principal.

Furthermore, the issue was that she was generally annoying, trying to find excuses to get out of chores, so mom seized the opportunity to teach her a lesson.

I'm glad it does not seem like a frequent occurrence. My feeling is that French teachers get less official guidance about what is appropriate or inappropriate to ask from students than in other countries, thus some abusive requests such as these. Also I suspect some female teachers want to force girl into behaving like "modern girls".

Nope. Never ordered to i just wanted to use them.

No, in fact I had the exact opposite problem where I had to convince my mother to let me use them.

I didn't like bulky pads and my mom used tampons but initially she felt I was to young and girls shouldn't be using them.

Much moaning later she came round and gave me permission which saying out loud sounds ridiculous now but I think many shared her view back when I grew up.

For all of our mother’s flaws when it came to raising us, when it came to my period the product that I used was very much up to me. While our mother refused to talk about safe sex, or masturbation, she made sure we were prepared for the day our first period came. My sister was 14 before she got her period, so mum had plenty of time to help her prepare. Mum would always say “Sammy you have plenty of time you don’t have to listen to this.” I’m glad I did, as I started my period less than 6 months after my sister.

My sister and I were encouraged to take pads to school “just in case you need them”, and my mum would say that if it caught us off guard, we’d panic less trying to use a pad for the first time rather than a tampon.

My sister liked pads, but they made me feel uncomfortable so I asked mum if I could try a tampon… Part of me expected her to say no, but she took a deep breath and then said “sure.” Next time we went to the shops she took me to the feminine hygiene aisle and let me choose what I wanted.

I don’t think anyone has any right telling someone what is best for them. As I tell my daughter, if one option makes her more comfortable than another, that’s the right option for her.