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Water Aid goes against the flow with hilarious ‘manpon’ advert

28 May 2015

By Sam

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Today (May 28th) is Menstrual Hygiene Day, and to raise awareness of the difficulty of maintaining menstrual hygiene (or as we all know it, staying clean when you’re on your period) for women without regular access to water, charity Water Aid has released a series of satirical adverts designed to amuse, but also to make us think.

Using the hashtag #IfMenHadPeriods, Water Aid’s funny adverts are a subtle reminder that when it comes to taking things for granted, we’re very lucky in the UK to have easy access to clean water at every point in the month.

The adverts also tackles the casual sexism that we can see in a lot of our attitudes to menstruation and sanitary protection.

Which of the adverts did you prefer?

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