The left one goes into the left ovary, the right into the right ovary. S is for "straight ahead".

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Omg it all makes sense now

Seriously, I wanna know. Is it size? Or… flow?

Regular and large?

I assume it's for Large, Regular, Small

I don’t know if those things have size… length? Girth? Both?

Depends on the brand but mostly difference in girth aka material to soak up things.

There are different sizes but they are rated by how much they can absorb, L is light flow, R regular. So it's not really about the size, they'll expand anyways when they soak up the discharge

what's the S someone implied existed elsewhere in the thread?

Confusing that L could be interpreted as Large size and Light flow. Surely you would know what is meant by looking at the packaging (or maybe feeling this particular one). I hope for the person in need of it that they won't have to guess in a case like this.

Pretty sure it's size from when I've had to buy for my partner, Large and Regular, the colours also differentiate between sizes as seen here.

Super

I have a wife and can confirm it's the size, i.e. regular or large. If you have a large cooter, then you use the large. Smaller women use the regular or small.

At least they are not marked as inflammable.

I’m maybe getting whooshed here, but it’s light, regular and super. They are different sizes, but it’s determined by the flow level of the day, not body or vagina size.

So, many people will use a combination of absorbency levels over the course of the period. There is also super+ and super++.

It's a blob of cotton and plastic. It burns pretty well even before you soak it in whiskey.

Large and Rrrrrrreally Large?

What is “G” for then?

No no, I'm certain. I do have a wife after all. I'm practically an expert

Grand, comes with pillars of lapis lazuli, decorated golden arches and deep blue carpets

Supreme

Which one to use depends on which hemisphere you were born, of course.

Lmao. Nope.

Left pussy and right pussy. Depending on which one is your dominant pussy that you period from.

I dont buy tampons except as a secondary backup now that I use a cup, but I've never seen this. I just look at the 1-5 little drops of blue liquid...

And cups DO come in different (extremely inconsistent) sizes.

Grande, as in volume of blood to absorb expressed in Starbucks cup sizes? (S, T, G, V)?

https://tampax.com/en-us/tampon-truths/best-tampons-sizes-for-heavy-light-flow/

It's good we have you here. Your ability to use context clues really came in clutch. Don't have to worry about finding someone who uses these alien devices to explain them.

For when you're just spotting.

And the phase of the moon.

I kind of needed it cause i never hear "regular" as a size, only "medium", so i was hung up on the R

S is for Super, not small. Light, regular, super, etc. It's for flow, not for size.

It is incorrect. Light, regular, super, not large, regular, small.

Not size, flow. L is light. R is regular. S is super.

Oh okay, thank you.

~Super~

TIL

I'm guessing they learn this very early. It's only confusing to those of us without the need for them.

The S stands for "shit" and it gets stuck somewhere else...

I think L is Light

Its for when lesbians try to beat the period level on co-op, so they know which side of the screen they get. "S" is for single player.

If you felt them, you'd realize the Super one does have more girth than the Light one, in order to absorb more before it starts leaking. I don't know why it never occurred to me the use the same/opposite letters as Small /Large, probably because I first learned them back when companies wrote whole words on their packaging.

He can absorb my flow anytime. Get your red wings, Supes.

Tampons wick away fluid, it's their primary purpose. Vaginas are never meant to be dry. If you wear a tampon that is designed to wick away a lot of moisture on a low flow day it will dry you out which may cause an infection and lead to toxic shock syndrome - TSS. The L is low, R is regular, but higher ones exists. The goal is to use the lowest absorbancy necessary.

This page has a pretty good article about it.

So its like with nostrils, that at any given moment you have one that is more open and it switches every so often?

Oh it's about which hand you use to insert them - like left handed vs right handed scissors!

There is a lot of yoga about these.

I can’t remember which countries say anticlockwise but I’m used to counterclockwise.