No matter how sexually expressive you are, menstruation and its many accoutrements are more often than not relegated to the realm of unsexy. The whole culture surrounding feminine-hygiene products seems to demand that what happens in the vagina, stays in the vagina, until it can be stealthily discarded and never mentioned to anyone except your woman friends over fruity drinks. So there's something infinitely refreshing about the way these photos let lady-products be something other than a blocker of bleeding. Photographer Natasha Papadopoulou takes the tampon out of context and repositions it in ways that are imaginative, sexy and funny. By using it as a prop, it becomes a conversation piece, not something to simply be tucked away. — Caitlin MacRae
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