A new one for me

From: DMECNM@aol.com
Wed Jul 16 12:28:19 2003


College aged woman came in yesterday to ask me a question. Apparently many of her sorority sisters have taken up a new method of getting a buzz from alcohol. They are soaking tampons in Vodka or another beverage of their choice and inserting these saturated tampons into their vaginas. They claim that they get the same effect as when they drink the alcohol but they don't have alcohol on their breath and will not fail a breath analyzer this way. I asked the MD on call if she had heard of such a thing. She had not.

Have any of you come across this activity? Will the vagina absorb the alcohol into the bloodstream? How much?

My husband, a homicide prosecutor, is checking into this as well. He is wondering how much the vagina can absorb. At what rate? etc. I told him I doubt that there has been much research in this area but I would ask if anyone else had heard of such a thing.

What will they think of next?

Denise, CNM So Cal





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