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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Evangelicals have some really, really weird beliefs about how anything to do with the female body should be treated as a source of secrecy and shame. Some conservatives believe that using a tampon means you're not a virgin anymore (and are therefore tainted and worthless to your future husband in the eyes of evangelicals) or that using a tampon somehow promotes teenage promiscuity for ?reasons?.
They're also the biggest proponents of the terrible and failed policy of "abstinence only" sex education, so they never properly learn how menstruation works. Many conservative men genuinely believe that women can just "hold it in" (like urine) and therefore it's not necessary for schools to provide feminine hygiene products to students.
They'll never admit it, but these people share far more common beliefs with the Taliban than they do with mainstream Americans.
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That must be a very, very small number these days.