LONDON -- Three women made a statement outside Westminster in recent days, protesting the tampon tax by not using any sanitary products while on their periods.
The women wore white trousers and no tampons or pads, to show "how 'luxury' tampons really are," according to the Huffington Post.
Charlie Edge, who posted about the protest on Facebook, said they got a lot of "dirty looks," during their protest.
me and @hufflepunkk outside parliament #TamponTax pic.twitter.com/GWOnfB6RcF— Charlie Edge (@EdgeOTI) November 6, 2015
"They're not luxury items, anymore than Jaffa cakes, edible cake decorations, exotic meats or any other number of things currently not taxed as luxury items," Edge said on Facebook.
"Maternity pads are taxed, but incontinence pads aren't. We've had enough. Maybe bleeding on their doorstep will get the tories to do something about this?"
In recent months thousands of people have signed petitions calling for an end to the 5% tax on sanitary products -- even the Prime Minister David Cameron has said he'd like to see it changed, however, for this to happen all 28 European Union member states would need to back the move.
Last week MPs in the House of Commons voted 305 to 287 to reject an amendment to the Finance Bill, which would have forced a negotiation with the EU over the tax.