The Mooncup – Invention or Party Popper?

I, like millions of us, travel to work on the Tube. I don’t know how most people feel about the Underground, but I personally usually enjoy it. Obviously there’s the rush hour madness that can be fairly distressing but for the most part I like the journeys, the stations, and the varied advertising campaigns. So often I find great pleasure in reading multiple times about how I could go to Falaraki with EasyJet for £35 one way, or that an IVF clinic are having an open day (which conjure up so many wrong images…)

Then one day, I believe while on my ascent of the escalator at Liverpool St Station, I noticed an advert written in very nicely styled big letters simply saying ‘VA JAY JAY’. Now I’m not easily shocked, and I wasn’t at this moment. However I did do a double take, which proves to be a difficult thing to do on an escalator as the second take tends to be too late. What I did next may surprise many of you, and to be honest I look back now and feel disappointed with myself. I went down the other escalator and then back up to look at it again. If nothing else, my actions prove the power of advertising, particularly when using a euphemism for vagina. At the second time of asking I confirmed that my double take had been truthful, and that there was also a website address – loveyourvagina.com.

Hopefully by now you’re aware that I’m a man. And therefore seeing an advert that contains a web address of that nature means inevitably I’m going to have to see what it’s about. I tried not to. I tried to think that it wouldn’t be worth looking at, that I’d only be disappointed. But in the end I crumbled, crumbled like the weak male I am.

When I did log in, I was confronted by a website for Mooncups. For the gents in particular, let me try to explain. A Mooncup is a bit like a used party popper. Imagine you’ve just fired off your party popper (no, that’s not a euphemism) and you’re left with the plastic cup with the thin bit at the bottom and a bit of string and nothing inside it. Welcome to the Mooncup. Now imagine that you’ve fired the party popper, and your lady friend suddenly whispers to you that she has no tampons on her. You hand her the party popper, wink, and walk off feeling rather clever. It sounds ridiculous, but I fail to see what other way the Mooncup was invented.

loveyourvagina.com

Having read the site, I have to say that it’s certainly an economical option. You only need one, FOREVER. That seems pretty economical to me, considering that according to loveyourvagina.com women use  on average 12,000 sanitary products in their lifetime. I believe the process of using one is simple. Pop it in, leave it, take it out, rinse it, pop it back in. Seems fairly standard, although I can see how the rinsing part of things could get both messy and fairly embarrassing. I’m thinking public toilets mostly. Now ladies as I have said I am a man, and therefore have no way of knowing how a Mooncup will really compare with the regular sanitary products on the market. So I asked some women for their feedback on the idea and what they’d heard about it.

The response wasn’t good. I will of course always take view points to the contrary, but mostly the responses were looks of disgust, disdain, confusion and several fits of hilarity. When asked if they would ever buy one, the answer seemed a resounding no. Still, I thought the site may offer something more to try to change these ladies minds. It didn’t. But it did provide me with a massive long list of names people have submitted which they use when referring to their vagina. So I thought I would provide a few of my favourites for you here:

  • Nuns pantry – I’m guessing very rarely used.
  • Amusement park – scream if you want to go faster.
  • The office – mostly used for business.
  • Jazz cafe – a place to relax.
  • Bermuda triangle – go in only to never be seen again.
  • Hairy potter – will cast a spell on you.

Sad to say, while the Mooncup seems like a fairly good idea, it may find that it will forever be called the vagina party popper. Come to think of it, that’s not a bad name for one!

Mooncups are available from all good pharmacists and online – RRP £17.95. Visit www.loveyourvagina.com for more information.

These ramblings were by The Gent – a new member of the TLLWTL team. You can follow him on Twitter: @MrMcBear


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  1. Lorns, 1 year ago

    The Mooncup? OMG. Jog on. I bet it was invented by a man!

    Great post btw.

    Lorns x

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  2. GrumpyTart, 1 year ago

    Great 1st post, thank you for making me almost cover my monitor with cherry squash! Just the vision of you having to go back down and re-do the escalator to see the ad again made me laugh, let alone the rest of it.

    I like a man’s view on stuff like this :)

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  3. GrumpyTart, 1 year ago

    Forgot to say, I don’t think I will ever be able to look at a party popper in the same light ever again!

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  4. Em, 1 year ago

    OMG – how hysterical. So wrong but so funny.

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  5. Long Tall Ally, 1 year ago

    Wrong, funny a little but sick but fricking amazing. I just read this out to my assembled guys and gays and they’re horrified by the idea of the vaginal party popper. I have to confess, my name is Long Tall Ally and I’m a mooncupper. I feel like here is where I should hang my head in shame, *hangs head in shame*

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  6. Jools, 1 year ago

    Fantastic Post!

    I also will never look at a Party Popper in the same way again!

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