From ginlindzey@austin.rr.com Fri Mar 1 03:29:06 2002 Received: from mailscan3.cac.washington.edu (mailscan3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g21BSunJ129466 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 03:28:56 -0800 Received: FROM mxu3.u.washington.edu BY mailscan3.cac.washington.edu ; Fri Mar 01 03:28:56 2002 -0800 Received: from sm14.texas.rr.com (sm14.texas.rr.com [24.93.35.41]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g21BStre007193 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 03:28:55 -0800 Received: from Ginnyhome (cs6625160-42.austin.rr.com [66.25.160.42]) by sm14.texas.rr.com (8.12.0.Beta16/8.12.0.Beta16) with ESMTP id g21BUUhx009753 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 05:30:41 -0600 From: "Ginny Lindzey" To: Subject: RE: ancient feminine hygiene Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 05:29:04 -0600 Message-ID: <002001c1c114$503ebc80$6601a8c0@Ginnyhome> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.20020301090459.008e8b10@mailsvr.pt.lu> > As to the use of sponges as tampons, my guess (totally > uneducated) is that they were not so easily or cheaply > available back then. Well.... how do we know about whether they were easily or cheaply available? I'll buy that they weren't used as tampons, but if sponges weren't cheap, wouldn't there be a rash of thefts from the public latrines for those sponges on sticks? I would half think that it was one of those things that was so common that it's not worth mentioning. I don't think we mention toilet paper much in literature, even though it's everywhere. (ok, ok, what I need to locate now is some book on the long history of sponge diving in the Mediterranean or something) ginnyL, who won't bring it up again .