Hundreds of jokes
about menstruation!
See a Dutch cartoon strip about a nurse with PMS and
much art about
menstruation. And see the American "Sylvia" comic strip
episode about this museum, MUM, and some
cartoon-style ads for menstrual products, here, here and here.
And see my own comic
strip about the future of this museum.
See early tampons
and a list of tampon
on this site - at least the ones I've cataloged.
Douche apparatus: Germany
(1933, as Hitler was coming to power), Australia, an
American book
promoting the practice, and instructional
material for an American
company
that sold douche equipment and menstrual cups at
Tupperware-like parties in
women's houses!
See an American douche set, Mon Docteur (My Doctor
in French), with instructions and booklets,
from about 1929.
See also Australian douche ad
(ca. 1900) - Fresca
douche powder (U.S.A.) (date ?) - Kotique douche liquid
ad, 1974 (U.S.A.) - Liasan
(1) genital wash ad, 1980s (Germany) - Liasan (2) genital wash
ad, 1980s (Germany) - Lysol
douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Lysol douche liquid ad,
1948 (U.S.A.) - Marvel
douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Midol menstrual pain
pill ad, 1938 (U.S.A.) - Midol
booklet (selections), 1959 (U.S.A.) - Mum deodorant cream ad,
1926 (U.S.A.) - Myzone
menstrual pain pill, 1952 (Australia) - Pristeen genital spray
ad, 1969 (U.S.A.) - Spalt
pain tablets, 1936 (Germany) - Sterizol douche liquid
ad, 1926 (U.S.A.) - Vionell
genital spray ad, 1970, with Cheryl Tiegs
(Germany) - Zonite
douche ad, 1928 (U.S.A.)
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Cartoon, "Frauen gemeinsam,"
("Common to women"), about menstrual
sychronization, Germany, Brigitte
magazine, 1992
Feminism is alive and well in
Germany and has been; a woman runs the
country (in 2006). And Germans tend to
be more open about bodily functions
than Americans, which can be a relief
when you live there, away from the
Land of the Puritans.
On the other hand, when I asked one
of my nephews, who was raised in
Germany and works in Europe with his
European wife, if I should open my
museum of menstruation in Germany,
where I thought it would be better
received, he replied: "Oh, no,
Uncle Harry!"
Renate Alf drew the cartoon, which
appeared in issue 16, 1992, of
Brigitte magazine, a popular and
mainstream newsstand magazine for
women with articles about cooking,
fashion, etc. I found it in the
catalog "Menstruation: Monatshygiene
im Wandel von 1900 bis heute," Text
und Katalog: Sabine Zinn-Thomas und
Walter Stolle. Eine Ausstellung des
Hessischen Landesmuseums Darmstadt in
der Außenstelle Lorsch, 26.11.1998 bis
31.7.1999. My translation:
"Menstruation: Changing menstrual
hygiene [in Germany, mostly] from 1900
to today [1998]." Text and catalog:
Sabine Zinn-Thomas and Walter Stolle.
An exhibition of the Hessian State
Museum, Darmstadt, in the branch at
Lorsch, from November 26, 1998 to July
31, 1999.
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I added my translation of the
text throughout the pictures.
Note how they're smiling
during ovulation (Eisprung). There was a recent
study showing how women dress
sexier at that time, maybe out to
seduce and give that egg a partner
with a tail. Scottish
Dr. Maria Stopes showed a similar
thing in her chart
of 1918.
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See a Dutch cartoon strip about a nurse with PMS
and much art
about menstruation. See the American "Sylvia" comic strip
episode about this museum, MUM, and
some cartoon-style ads for menstrual
products, here, here and here. And hundreds
of jokes
and funny stories about menstruation!
See early tampons
and a list of tampon
on this site - at least the ones I've
cataloged.
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