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Btw, just in case anyone else needs this info, I found a menstruating aid that can be worn during sex.
I decided to finally try out a diva cup type thing so I could go without underwear (which means no pads, and even though I can't wear tampons (TSS), I didn't want the string hanging down either). I assumed I would be limited to no PIV, just other activities with a cup in, and that was fine as long as I could show up in a short skirt and no underwear and not get blood everywhere.
But right next to the cups was this package of something called Softdisc (disposable discs) that said on the side it could be worn during sex. I know there are other products that can be worn during sex, but this was the only one on the shelves that said so on the package. Probably my very first time wearing an internal menstruation aid shouldn't have been a product I had never heard of before while doing something ... questionable with it on.
But I tried it on the night before to get the hang of it and to see if it would trigger my TSS or otherwise be uncomfortable, and told him that if he could feel it and it was bothersome, we could stop and do other things. He was all for trying it.
It's a large plastic ring with a soft, crinkly bag attached, like an internal condom, only the bag is much shallower. You squeeze the ring to make a long strip instead of a circle, and push it in and *down*, not up. Then, once it gets past the pubic bone, you push the ring up to form a seal around the cervical opening. It just kinda hangs out there, hovering above the vaginal canal.
I could feel the ring with my finger (which is good because how could you take it out if you can't find it again?) so I assumed the hard ring would either be uncomfortable for him or get slammed into my cervix. Neither happened. He said he could barely feel it and it wasn't uncomfortable, and I didn't notice it at all.
However, it did slip a little, so I spotted afterwards until I changed it out. And because it wasn't sucked up where it should have been, it slipped a lot during a bowel movement push. That's how you remove it, btw, you push to make the ring more accessible and then hook a finger under the ring and pull while still pushing your bowel muscles.
So I would recommend changing it after penetration, but it worked as advertised. And now I can have penetrative sex while on my period! (I don't like messy sex, so I refused to before)
I decided to finally try out a diva cup type thing so I could go without underwear (which means no pads, and even though I can't wear tampons (TSS), I didn't want the string hanging down either). I assumed I would be limited to no PIV, just other activities with a cup in, and that was fine as long as I could show up in a short skirt and no underwear and not get blood everywhere.
But right next to the cups was this package of something called Softdisc (disposable discs) that said on the side it could be worn during sex. I know there are other products that can be worn during sex, but this was the only one on the shelves that said so on the package. Probably my very first time wearing an internal menstruation aid shouldn't have been a product I had never heard of before while doing something ... questionable with it on.
But I tried it on the night before to get the hang of it and to see if it would trigger my TSS or otherwise be uncomfortable, and told him that if he could feel it and it was bothersome, we could stop and do other things. He was all for trying it.
It's a large plastic ring with a soft, crinkly bag attached, like an internal condom, only the bag is much shallower. You squeeze the ring to make a long strip instead of a circle, and push it in and *down*, not up. Then, once it gets past the pubic bone, you push the ring up to form a seal around the cervical opening. It just kinda hangs out there, hovering above the vaginal canal.
I could feel the ring with my finger (which is good because how could you take it out if you can't find it again?) so I assumed the hard ring would either be uncomfortable for him or get slammed into my cervix. Neither happened. He said he could barely feel it and it wasn't uncomfortable, and I didn't notice it at all.
However, it did slip a little, so I spotted afterwards until I changed it out. And because it wasn't sucked up where it should have been, it slipped a lot during a bowel movement push. That's how you remove it, btw, you push to make the ring more accessible and then hook a finger under the ring and pull while still pushing your bowel muscles.
So I would recommend changing it after penetration, but it worked as advertised. And now I can have penetrative sex while on my period! (I don't like messy sex, so I refused to before)
