Pads might be a little more practical.

#38: Out of the blue, without context - sure. In this case, however, OP seemed more focused on the tampon situation than the surprise factor. This brings up an interesting question - can it still be "sexual assault" if the "victim" doesn't mind? We are dealing with an edge case here. If both of them feel comfortable with this, I don't think it's our business to tell them what they should and shouldn't be allowed to do in the bedroom.

He also couldnt give consent, he was drunk. Maybe she came on to him while she was asleep? Ive done that before. Woke up while riding my boyfriend. Guess i raped him huh?

Aren't you? Surely if you're only sleeping for 8 hours, it's just the same as wearing a tampon during the day

Not really, you're supposed to change them every four hours, (during the day, you're not supposed to wear them during the night), do most women do that? maybe, maybe not. Toxic Shock Syndrome is a thing.

Try reading the package, it says on tampons to change every 4-8 hours, depending on blood flow. I sleep in them and I haven't caught the disease.

#64 Be thankful you haven't contracted TSS. A girl at my school did when she left one in too long while skiing one day - she ended up in the ICU for nearly a month.

you can, as long as you don't sleep for more than 8 hours.

58- TSS occurs due to wearing a tampon for way too long (I'm pretty sure anyway). Why would you be okay to wear tampons during the day but not during the night? It's not like the tampons magically become fatal when it gets dark outside. Wearing one at night is exactly the same as wearing one in the day. It's the amount of time you wear it for that matters, not the time of day you wear it.

I know that, #116, I too, wear tampons, I'm just telling what it says in the instructions, it really does say, they really do recommend wearing a pad during the night BECAUSE it would be in for a possibly longer period of time, than if worn during the day.

Actually, if you go to the Tampax website it tells you that it is fine. You just have to use the correct absorbancy just as you would any other time of day.

yeah, and who's going to the police?

except my partner has permission to touch me while I'm unconscious.

Like i said in pp. he was drunk she was unconscious. So if she initiated it, did she rape him first?

Relationships after awhile exist in a state of implied consent. So you don't have to get permission to come up behind your partner and grab their butt. My sister is cool with asleep sex, I am not, you decide these things as you go along.

Unless you know your partner's ok with you doing stuff to them while they're asleep *because you've talked to them about it previously and they have agreed to let you do it*, it's not cool to do sexual things to said unconscious person. This whole "implied state of consent" concept doesn't make sense for doing things to people who are asleep; for example, you could reasonably infer that your partner is generally cool with butt-squishes if they consistently and genuinely laugh/grin cheekily (no pun intended)/*react positively* in some way (though they do of course have the right to tell you to quit doing that at any time). But you can't get that positive reaction from unconscious people (and no, unconscious bodily reactions to stimulation do not count as consent). So just ask! If they're not ok with it, you've avoided doing something to your partner that they do not want (yay!) and if they are ok with it, you're good to go (also yay!). If you can't talk to your partner about the thing, you definitely shouldn't be doing the thing to them.

"Implied state of consent" sounds a lot like "marital rape" to me. Consent must be explicitly given without coercion or deception. It is never a given.

159- Not necessarily. My boyfriend and I know that we have permission to wake each other up in a sexual way. We don't have to ask each other for permission every time we do it.

Maybe you shouldn't make comments lol ever heard of having a valid point before opening your mouth? Read the ******* comments. Times have changed.

Legally I can as many comments as I want, and it is a valid comment considering there's hundreds of deaths that are from sleeping with tampons in. Time changes but people still die, smartie.

I did read the comments and not one said anything about toxic shock syndrome but nice try sweetie

I'm pretty sure toxic shock syndrome occurs because the person has worn the tampon for way too long, not because they slept with it in. Most people only sleep 8 or 9 hours a night, so how is that any different from wearing a tampon for 8 or so hours during the day?

Statistically a tampon should be worn no longer than 8 hours, but every single body is different, so regardless what a box says someone's body could handle it for longer periods rather than someone who can only handle for shorter periods.

That's not quite how infections work. TSS is caused by strep or staph, it's not dependent on our own bodies, because it's not something we really have immunity to so everyone would have the same reaction if the bacteria were brewing in there.