See ads for menarche-education booklets:
Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday
(Kotex, 1933), Tampax tampons (1970, with Susan Dey),
Personal Products (1955, with Carol Lynley), and
German o.b. tampons (lower ad, 1970s)
And read Lynn Peril's series about these
and similar booklets!
See more Kotex items: First ad
(1921) - ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck catalog)
- Lee Miller ads (first real person in amenstrual
hygiene ad, 1928) - Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday
(booklet for girls, 1928, Australian edition; there are many links here
to Kotex items) - Preparing for Womanhood (1920s,
booklet for girls; Australian edition) - 1920s booklet in Spanish showing
disposal method - box
from about 1969 - "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 - 1997
Does Anyone Have a Tassette Cup??
Does anyone have a Tassette cup - the
1960s predecessor of the Tassaway cup discussed above - she or he will donate
to MUM??
If you do, you will be showered with praise,
publicity (if you want it) and in extreme cases, money (but I can't afford
too much).
Folks, you will be advancing civilization
and the cause of well-intentioned people everywhere, doves will be released
in town squares about the globe to pealing bells, and I will authorize the
mint of the Museum of Menstruation to strike a coin bearing your likeness
and that of Mack
C. Padd (I'm crossing my fingers
behind my back), but mainly you will enable me to have a great exhibit in
MUM of EVERY MENSTRUAL CUP MADE IN THE USA!!
Do you UNDERSTAND what this means??
 Let's Take a Break From Menstruation!
This picture of Bootsie is from the 1996 calendar
Why Cats Paint,
by Heather Busch and Burton Silver (Ten Speed Press), the most brilliant
combination of pictures and text I have seen satirizing the world of art
(I'm an artist); it's based on a book. A co-worker in my real job gave it
to me; I can't think of anything nicer to get (except the Tassette cup,
mentioned above).When you visit MUM, if you say Bootsie and Mack
C. Padd (say it quickly), I will let you see it for a short time.
In Combat, What to Do About Menstruation, Etc.?
A researcher from the office of Dr.
Barbara Czerwinski, who helped design the hygienic setup for the space shuttle, visited MUM
from the University of Texas at Houston recently. She
sought information for a large study being conducted by Dr. Czerwinski concerning
the hygienic requirements of women
combatants in war. Women in combat is a hotly debated topic, folks.
A woman friend of mine, who had spent time in the army,
said that when wearing the gear protecting against chemical and biological
attack on the battlefield, soldiers
must defecate and urinate into their clothing, as opening
the suit would defeat its purpose. Discarding menstrual pads, tampons or
cups would be impossible.
As expected, says another source, women pilots stifle
any urge to complain about whatever menstrual miseries they may have, for fear (I'm sure justified, as a male who has worked with males in the
Department of Defense for over twenty years, seven in the Pentagon) of
showing weakness in a specifically female way. The
armed forces are a very male workplace, although I can attest that they
are trying hard to treat women equally, and probably doing it better than
most.
Look at Terrafemme Tampons and Great Information
Natracare Sues Tampax
Natracare, LLC, a small Denver (Colorado)-based company which sells the Natracare
all-cotton tampon and menstrual pad product line in the United States, filed
suit on 7 January in U.S. District Court for Colorado against Tambrands,
Inc., makers of Tampax tampons, and Ecofem
of Toronto, Canada, which also makes menstrual products for women.
In the suit, Natracare claims unfair advertising and unfair
competition with respect to the marketing of Tampax Naturals (TM) applicator-style
tampons, which Tampax launched in 1996.
Tambrands markets the Naturals as 100%
cotton; Natracare says they are not, and can prove it.
The issue is important.
Dr. Philip M. Tierno, Jr., a leading toxic shock researcher based at the
New York University Medical Center, has published extensively showing the
connection between artificial fibers and toxic shock. He
recommends women use only pure cotton tampons. Natracare has produced
such tampons and pads for years.
Also accused of using artificial fibers mixed with cotton,
while claiming pure cotton, is Ecofem.
Richard Ruh, attorney for Natracare, said the case is
similar to successful litigation pursued by Florida orange juice producers
against other companies who claimed that they also sold 100% pure Florida
orange juice.
"If, as Tambrands, Inc. asserts in their advertising
and on product packaging, 'Trust is Tampax,' then it is significant that
they are misleading nearly 50% of the consuming public between the ages
of 11 and 54," says Susan Carskaden, U.S. Manager of Natracare, LLC.
"We stand firmly behind the product and its advertising,"
said Janey Lloyd, spokesperson for Tambrands, according to the Rocky Mountain
News.
© 1997 Harry Finley. It is illegal
to reproduce or distribute work on this Web site in any manner or medium
without written permission of the author. Please report suspected violations
to hfinley@mum.org
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See Tampax tampons (1970, with Susan Dey), Personal Products (1955, with Carol Lynley), and
German o.b. tampons (lower ad, 1981) See a Lucky Strike cigarettes ad from 1933.
See ads for menarche-education booklets:
Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday
(Kotex, 1933),
See also the booklets How
shall I tell my daughter? (Modess, various dates), Growing
up and liking it (Modess, various dates),
and Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1928).
And read Lynn Peril's series about these and
similar booklets!
See another ad for As One Girl to Another (1942),
and the booklet itself.
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