Suzanne Harrington: Are girls with swishy hair in tight white jeans the only way to advertise tampons? 

Are we still pretending that tampons are embarrassing secrets to be hidden away in pastel sweet-wrapper packaging?
Suzanne Harrington: Are girls with swishy hair in tight white jeans the only way to advertise tampons? 
A screenshot from the Tampons & Tea commercial which attracted complaints from some Irish viewers

Look, I know everyone has piled in already about that Tampax ad, but as the proud possessor of both a vagina and a newspaper column, it would be rude not to stick my oar in, providing, of course, the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland doesn’t find my idiom provocative or suggestive.

Because I do love to stick an oar in. All the way in.

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