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Banning lace underwear for ‘vaginal health’
– Reported, May 22 2014
Only days ago, 30 women protesters in Kazakhstan were arrested and shoved into the back of police vans with lace underwear on their heads shouting freedom to panties.
Yes. They were demanding the freedom to choose the type of underwear they put on each day.
The ban will outlaw any underwear containing less than six per cent cotton (most sexy lingerie is made of materials with less than four per cent cotton), meaning that lacy ladies underwear may be literally grabbed off the shelves in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan on July 1.
The irony behind this outlandish law is that the legislators (presumably males) had the very best of intentions: womens health. Apparently the crackdown will enable womens lower regions to breathe better. How thoughtful. The ban will basically save women from a lack of absorbency lace and other synthetic materials give us. In other words: wear cotton. If you dont, its very harmful to your health.
The imminent ban has understandably caused friction. Women have their knickers in a knot.
Aside from women in Kazakhstan and Belarus taking to the streets in protest with underwear on their heads (and then later getting arrested and forced to pay a fine), others have taken to social media to protest against the law. There have been an awful lot of funny images circulated around the web comparing womens underwear nowadays to back in the Soviet-era and its not pretty.
The thrust of the argument is this: women not only should, but must, be in charge of their own vaginal health and governments should not intervene and enforce a law that says otherwise. While yes there is literature that suggests wearing lace underwear could be bad for your health, the general consensus is: It really depends on your propensity for infections, Dr Jill Rabin, an associate professor of clinical obstetrics and gynaecology and womens health in the US, told the Huffington Post last year.
The issue is if you have a predisposition to getting infections, either urinary or vaginal.
The bottom line is that women must have a choice: if youre prone to infections, then wear another type of underwear. Your body, your choice.
Too many governments and men around the world have taken it upon themselves to impose laws that they believe, in some warped way, protect womens demure, but in actual fact do nothing more but hamper womens basic rights. There is just no justification for the banning of lace underwear.