Horrifying Moldy Tampon Story

[my2sense]

PSA - Don't read if you are easily offended.

Here's a tale that will make you instinctively cross your legs at the ankles and do an involuntary Kegel — a woman who discovered that her unused Kotex tampons were covered in mysterious black spots was told by the manufacturer that she should cool her jets because the substance on her tampons was harmless bread mold. Just your standard run-of-the mill "there's mold on something that's supposed to go into my vagina" consumer complaint.

After taking her grievance to the internet, the moldy tamponmaker (ponsmith? mensestress?) has apologized, but not before giving millions of women a reason to rip open their box of cotton ponies and examine them individually for mold like a crazy person.

More: http://jezebel.com/5897186/horrifying-moldy-tampon-story-will-haunt-your-nightmares?utm_campaign=socialflow_jezebel_twitter&utm_source=jezebel_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

[11 Bravo]

1. I'm trying (and failing) to imagine a LESS than horrifying moldy tampon story.

[postulater]

2. Cotton ponies?

never heard that one.

[tanyev]

3. Ew. Thank God those days are over for me.

*shudder*

[Betsy Ross]

4. Yee haw! Don't miss a day of it either. n/t

[rug]

5. Oh good grief.

I'm just getting over yesterday's scrotal pinhole story.

I'm going back to the Lounge.

[JitterbugPerfume]

6. that is disgusting

moldy tampons!

[one_voice]

7. Thank God I don't have to worry about...

that anymore.

[unkachuck]

8. "The vegetative mold is similar in nature to mold on vegetables or in baked goods."

....you would think that a product meant to enter the human body wouldn't contain mold or any other form of microbe....what in this supposed sterile product, could the bugs be feasting upon?

[cash__whatiwant]

9. wtf?

why would BREAD MOLD be on unused tampons?

[gkhouston]

10. Hey, everything's "antibacterial" now, why not Penicillin Playtex? n/t