Other women thankfully resort to knockoffs, not sex. Sanitary pads can be faked like anything else. Lebanese customs officials recently seized a half-ton shipment of sanitary pads that were found to be severely radioactive. The pads were made in China by a company claiming they contained anions, groups of negatively charged ionized atoms that apparently had health benefits if you put them in your pants and bled into them. (Another name for anions, the company said, was ‘air vitamins’.)60 A writer on one Chinese blog, pleased with himself, wrote that the products were ‘guaranteed to redefine
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