See a prototype of
the first Kotex ad.
See more Kotex items: Ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck catalog)
- Marjorie May's Twelfth
Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928,
Australian edition; there are many links here to
Kotex items) - 1920s booklet in Spanish showing
disposal method -
box from about 1969 -
Preparing for Womanhood
(1920s, booklet for girls) - "Are
you in the know?" ads (Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) - See
more ads on the Ads for
Teenagers main page
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THE MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S
HEALTH
InSync
Miniform pad for urine,
menstruation & other secretions
that fits between the small lips
of the vulva (once obsolete but a
new form, Unique
Miniform, is for sale in 2008)
The original
Miniform got the following write-up in
the late 1990s:
The Miniform is a small pad
designed to absorb small amounts of
urine and secretions from the
vagina. Rather than pressing against
the outside of the large lips of the
vulva, it sits between them -
actually, between the inner lips. It
does not enter the vagina. See the
company's drawings, below.
Below are parts of the instructions
for the inSync,
plus a picture of the pad and
covering, at top. If
you are not on the West Coast of the
U.S.A., call 1-888-8INSYNC for a
free sample or to order a box. (As of June, 2002,
the company might have gone out of
business. But, in 2008, the the
Miniform is back on the market.)
The company (AFEM) plans to sell
the pad in stores nationally
(U.S.A.) by spring, 1999. As of
November, 1999, you can buy it at
Fred Meyer and Target stores in the
U.S.A. It costs about $2.99 for a
24-pad pack.
Read about the
company's resurgence in an email
(January 2008) to the MUM director:
In 1999 we had the miniforms on the
shelves of 3,600 stores, and needed
either California or the East Coast
to reach profitability for the
product. We were ready to complete
an offering to give us the marketing
capital, when Capital Consulting, a
$1.6B pension fund - which held 48%
of my stock - was closed by the SEC
and the principals sent to jail.
Naturally, my financing went
sideways.
While the assets of the pension
fund were tied up in federal
litigation (48% of AFEM), I went
back to OHSU to teach, laid everyone
off, and used what little cash I had
left to keep the intellectual
property alive.
(See the new Web site: http://www.uniqueminiform.com/)
In 2004, the federal case was
settled, and the assets were
purchased by Goldman. I put a group
of investors together who bought the
stock and re-capitalized the
Company.
During this period, our friends at
P&G were slowly moving forward
in the Miniform arena, but it wasn't
a priority for them. Thus I was able
to buy all of their technology and
add it to mine. Since this gave us a
new design that was easier and
cheaper to make [see the Web
site], I cut a deal with KNH
in Taiwan to be our manufacturer.
The Company name was changed to QuantRx
and here we are.
Let me know what you think about
our website - it's a start - and if
you run across anyone who might want
to help sell them, let me know.
That's the story in a nutshell.
All the best,
Bill Fleming
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Pad
at right, pad in package at
left
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Copyright Harry Finley 1998
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