Feminine hygiene

Average price reductions of 15% in certain product categories, due to the government's measures, have been recorded since March 1, Development Minister Kostas Skrekas told Skai TV on Wednesday.

Almost two weeks after the zeroing of the tax rate on seven products (bread, eggs, milk, baby diapers, baby food, feminine hygiene products, and adult diapers) in Cyprus, the island's ministries of Finance and of Commerce are in discussions regarding the next list of products that will have a low or reduced tax rate.

An online petition in Kosovo calling for the lowering or removal of VAT on menstrual products such as menstrual pads, tampons, cups and underwear, has received over 5,600 signatures in just three days.

UN-backed project ensures pupils in Bosnia's Sarajevo Canton will have access to free sanitary pads and free education on menstrual health in the 2022/23 school year.

They say the 18 percent value added tax, VAT, levied on menstrual pads, tampons, cups or underwear is an extra, discriminatory burden on financially-vulnerable women - leading to a phenomenon known as 'period poverty'. But their calls have so far fallen on deaf ears.

“Has anyone considered the trauma girls will experience when boys run up & down hallways, waving tampons & pantomiming insertion?”

Ljubljana – The legislative changes lowering VAT on women’s sanitary products from 22% to 9.5% entered into force on Monday. The initiative for the changes had come from Bojana Muršič, an MP for the opposition Social Democrats (SD).

"Our fellow citizens are not always able to buy the right supplies or have the basic conditions to maintain hygiene, which is truly devastating for us as a society."

Results 'caused a stir'

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An online retailer, Pretty Woman Inc, is selling ‘Passion Dust intimacy capsules’ filled with candy-scented glitter that women place in their vagina make their and sex life literally tastier! The new vaginal glitter-bombs promise to make the private area of women more tasty and to glow!

Sexy DJ MILF and presenter of the ‘Athens Eroctica’ event, Eve Adam had somewhat of a mishap, when talking to an acquaintance on the couch during the press conference for the upcoming 2016 ‘Athens Eroctica’ show. The hot brunette was exchanging views with a male while drinking her beverage in a carefree manner, but was unaware that her white panty was showing under her black dress.