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The things I don't know yet could fill several mulitivolume editions of varying unabridged encyclopedias in quite a few different languages. I'll be the first to admit it. Knowing absolutely zero percent of anything about keepers, however, shouldn't mean I can't be utterly repulsed by the idea of sharing one with another woman. This is not something I intend to do, of course, but it rises from a story that has been haunting me for days.

A friend of mine from school is living in an eco-friendly co-op. His housemates are wonderful, caring people, and they do everything they can to save the environment. Every woman in the house, for example, uses a Diva Cup. A few women have blogged here about their own experiences with keepers, and friends of mine rave about them. I am fully in support of any woman who chooses to use one, don't get me wrong--I'm seriously considering getting one for myself.

They're a great idea, which is why so many women use them, why the women in my friend's house use them. They're environmentally friendly and they're cheap; you really only need to purchase one every few years. Which is why it shouldn't be a problem to buy your own. Perhaps thirty dollars was too much for these girls to lay down all at once, because two of them decided it would be a-okay to share one.

Oh, it makes my skin crawl.

My friend, a pre-med student, gave them the most serious face he could (a face he reserves for baristas who refuse to believe he wants a shot of espresso in his chai--very serious, indeed; I hope he will give this face to patients), and said "I don't think you should."

"We're going to boil it between uses."

"With what pot?!" When he told me this story, it seemed he had been on the verge of hysteria, and I don't think he wasn't.

They huffed. "We'll reserve a pot."

And so they did. And so they are going through with the Diva Cup timeshare. I don't know that boiling it won't sanitize it fully, but then again, I also don't know that it will. I can't find anything online that says they shouldn't do it, but I also don't see anything that encourages it. This is going to be an interesting question for my doctor.

But why would you want to do such a thing? If cost is the problem, they could pay for one together right now, then for the next one later, a theory which is blown to pieces when you think about the fact that they live together--and are close enough to share the thing--which means they may soon be on the same cycle, if they aren't already. Hopefully this means, thank God, that they'll be forced to purchase a second.

I can't be the only person who objects to this on principle. Well, my pre-med friend does: he also doesn't know whether or not it's truly an unhealthy idea, though he has stopped arguing and allowed them the pot to boil it in.

Shouldn't some things just stay personal?

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