See similar booklets - Read the 1944 Growing Up and Liking It - See covers & complete texts of other Growing Up and Liking It booklets - ads for teenagers
Read most of a 1928 Australian edition of the Kotex booklet Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, and read three mid-1930s booklets by Kotex, including a much-changed version of Marjorie May's twelfth Birthday.
Read Lynn Peril's series about these and similar booklets.
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CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
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MUM address & What does MUM mean? |
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Words and expressions about menstruation |
Would you stop menstruating if you could? |
What did women do about menstruation in the past? |
Washable pads |
Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site.
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.

Modess puberty, menarche & menstruation booklet
Growing Up and Liking It: Andrea & Friends (1991, U.S.A.)

Discussion.

Here's an ad for one of these booklets from the 1960s, and see many covers, 1944 - 1991.


Below: Pp. 23-24. See the tampon directory
Below: The barely visible text below the diagram reads:
* Available in deodorant or scented also.
Ý Available in original, scented and unscented with baking soda.
See Stayfree ads & products: ad with Olympic gymnast Cathy Rigby (1982). More ads with Rigby and others (U.S.A., Germany, Hispanic America). Listen to Cathy Rigby speak a radio ad for Stayfree (1982). Ads, U.S.A., 1973, 1974, showing new beltless pad - Ad, 1980, cheerleaders - Ad, 1977, girl skateboarding in white shorts - Ad, 1982, white shorts - Ad, U.S.A., 1984: white sheets as main design element - Ad, 1996, cartwheel in white pants - Dutch ads showing women wearing pad & belt: 1972 (photo), 1973 (drawing) - German, 1976, 1977, diagrams showing blood flow & panties - 1980 American folder with great visual pun on cover: Your Teenage Menstrual Cycle

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