Didn't want to derail a thread that's running about maxi pads. There's a few responses about using tampons rectally, and as usual there some serious mythology going.
I have used tampons anally almost every day since I was a teenager. If there isn't a penis, or toy in there, there's a tampon. Literally, thousands.
The real, and whole truth about tampons-
- The string will not break. Period. You can pull your boat out of the water with it.
- The tampon will not travel up your intestines and get lost. High school biology- Your involuntary muscles keep things moving outward, toward the toilet. Nothing gets 'sucked into' your butt.
- Your rectum is a mucous membrane. It will coat the tampon with butt slime, and prevent it from sticking to the walls of your rectum. Women DO complain about a dry tampon sticking A LITTLE BIT, that's a vagina. The vagina does not have magic powers. The tampon is not permanently stuck there.
- A tampon WILL NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES hold in an enema. It will also not absorb an enema leak. A super-plus hold less than a 1/2 an ounce. Your enema nurse putting in a tampon to hold in water is only the stuff of fantasy.
- If a tampon is uncomfortable, it's just not in far enough. The applicator was designed to get it where it should be in a vagina. In a rectum, it needs to go in as far as your finger will push it, after using the applicator.
- If you want to wet it, to expand it (it won't feel any different) squirt in a bulb of water AFTER inserting it. If you have water in the rectum, it will just swell up in halfway into your anus and be useless.
- Toxic shock syndrome. It's a bacteria that is all around us, and you may get it from eating unwashed fruit. There was a few cases of it from tampons back in the 80's. Only from a brand called Rely, which have been taken off the market. Don't leave a tampon in for more than8 hours. There's a whole pamphlet on it in the box. Everywhere it says vagina, replace with anus.
- I have never, ever had any kind of bad reaction, feeling, infection...nada. Sometimes one slips down to close to the sphincter, and irritates it a little bit. Either push it in with a finger, or start fresh.
- I honestly cannot not feel a tampon up my ass. So why do it? It's my little secret. I can be at the mall, or out to lunch, and only I know it's there.
- I sometimes push a tampon into my colon, just cause I can. It comes out with a BM.
- I only buy super plus, because why go smaller? I like playtex the best, they just work for me. Old fashioned Tampax is pretty good, with the cardboard applicator, but the Tampax pearl have a nylon string that cuts into the anus. Bad.
- It won't stimulate your prostate, and cause uncontollable orgasms. You'll probably not feel anything, and forget it's there. It's a subtle thing.
Guys, before inserting one, open it up, pop it out of the applicator. See what it is, and what it can, and can't do. A simple examination of it will tell you just about everything you need to know.
N.B. Getting caught stealing tampons is a whole lot more embarrassing than buying them. That kid behind the cash register is NOT thinking 'He's going to stick those up his ass'. Guys buy them all the time, usually at 2 a.m. If you want to keep it a secret from your S.O. Buy your own! Women usually keep a running tab of what supplies they have. Take one, she won't notice, take five, she will.
Enjoy.