Updated 3 Jan.; next
scheduled update late afternoon, 4 Feb., but
often updated throughout the week.
Time flies
This museum collection is "[U]nrivaled. . . . [T]he
best material culture collection on
menstruation in the world."
- Menstruation: A Cultural
History
(Howie, Shail, eds.)
This museum Web site is "a treasure trove of
information." -
Kotex, Kleenex, Huggies: Kimberly-Clark and
the Consumer Revolution in American
Business, by Thomas Heinrich and Bob
Batchelor.
Listen to MUM director Harry
Finley carry on about men and
menstruation, the MUM museum in his basement,
toxic shock, etc., on the Keeper menstrual cup
site. No, they didn't pay me.
ABOUT MUM (MUseum of Menstruation):
"May God close your
horable museum." From a letter, with
original spelling, to the Museum of
Menstruation, from "Shocked, by women," mailed
from Cheyenne, Wyoming, U.S.A.
"Consider how Surg.
Gen. Koop changed the country! . . . Carry
on!" Judge Giles S. Rich (retired),
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit, Washington, D. C. (from a letter
to me)
Comments from TV, online and other media about this
museum.
Three listeners'
comments (more) from my half-hour
interview with Howard
Stern (here):
° "Get a life, creep."
° "[I] am quite
familiar with the obstacles to a frank and
intelligent discussion of menstruation."
(Nancy Freedman, author of Everything You Must Know
About Tampons, 1981)
° "I was just
listening to your interview with Howard
Stern. You handled yourself very well with
him. He lambastes just about anyone with a
peculiar interest, but you had him very much
in check. I was amazed!"
Google
declares this site "adult,"not
something a family could look at together
and withdraws the ads it had placed here for
8 years
(December 2011). I need permission
slips from Google employees' mothers
before they peek at this site. NO FAKE SIGNATURES OR I'LL SEND
YOU TO THE PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE!!
"Stick to jock itch
products, buddy." In a commentary
about the museum and its creator in the
defunct Sassy,
an American magazine for teenage girls.
"Terrifically diverse" - The Independent on Sunday
(London, England)
"It's fabulous that
somebody out there is willing to . . . pull
back the curtain." Mona Miller,
national media relations director of the Planned Parenthood
Federation of America, discussing the
museum in The Prince
George's Journal, Maryland, U.S.A.
"One of the best on
the Internet" - Britannica.com
"This gem of a
website is a
virtual repository for everything you ever
wanted to know about women's periods."
- New Scientist magazine (United
Kingdom)
"More interesting than
you might think. . . . lively." The V Book: A Doctor's Guide
to Complete Vulvovaginal Health, by
Elizabeth G. Stewart, M.D., of Harvard medical
school and Brigham and Women's Hospital,
Boston.
More media on MUM
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Below,
the latest
menstruation articles,
news, with the
history of
menstrual products &
culture.
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"A smaller dose of
the 'morning after' birth control
pill may help to control
fibroids in the uterus as
well. That's the conclusion of two new
studies. They were done in Europe,
where the pill is awaiting approval.
Fibroids are growths that can cause
heavy bleeding, pain and fertility
problems."
Read the whole
article from Harvard Medical
School.
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An e-mailer asked me to add what
seems to be a good site:
"hundreds
of printable
and
online applications for
retail stores, department stores,
pharmacies,
grocery stores, restaurants,
shops, etc."
at
http://www.job-applications.com
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See Gregory
Scaff's menstrual art at the
MOCADC
gallery (http://www.mocadc.org) in
Washington, D.C. Reception at 6 pm, Friday,
3 February 2012.
More Art
of menstruation (and ancient
art of menstruation).
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A contribution to
Would you stop menstruating if you could?
How is a menstrual pad like a grapefruit?
Find out in 3 ads for the defunct
Modess pad, 1970s.
An addition to
Words and expressions for menstruation:
U.S.A.:
Full stop
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Your MUM curator puts
his 2 cents into an article,
Perspective:
The Lady Problem, on ADWEEK
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A Kotex lamp chases
shadows of doubt,
even today.
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Womanstruation?
Of course!
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"Females
May Be More Susceptible to Infection
During Ovulation"
Read the story.
A Canadian
menstrual pad holder and pad
from the 1930s-40s
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Now that I don't
have to worry about Google's
retaliation - it's already booted your
MUM and me out of its AdSense program
for featuring menstruation and its
naughty facts and words in all their
g[l]ory and is putting me on the
street -
read Sandra Tsing Loh's
"The
Bitch is Back" in
The Atlantic magazine online.
It's about how menopause makes women normal,
just as angry and lazy, etc., as men.
Like me. The woman can write.
"The Biology
Behind Severe PMS"
Read the story
on ScienceDaily
Man
in India goes through (somewhat)
what women do,
invents cheap menstrual pad.
See some
other solutions for India here
and here.
1850s
American menstrual pad & belt
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"The Little Red Book About Having
Your Period"
("HET RODE BOEKJE OVER ONGESTELD ZIJN")
By Renate van der Bas
I translate a
chapter from the just published
Dutch book.
Google
just declared
this site "adult,"not something a family
could look at together and not be
embarrassed and withdrew the ads it had
placed here for 8 years up to
December 2011.
So, I need permission slips from Google
employees' mothers before these employees
peek at this site.
NO FAKE SIGNATURES OR I'LL SEND YOU TO THE
PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE!!
Author Renate van der Bas,
above, by the way, had harsh words
about Google's action and American
Puritanism.
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A lubricated
tampon lures girls into trying it
Pursettes
ad, 1975
What do
Chinese women use?
E-mail from
Hong Kong
A cat and dog
show why
Kleinert's
Sani-Scants panties are better
than wearing a belt in this 1950s ad.
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Sanitary padding makes no
hips into
sticky, er, nice ones.
Read
about the prize-winning idea!
Thanks to the contributor of many
items to MUM!
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Certain
"Kotex Tampons Recalled Over Bacterial
Contamination."
"For a list of the specific
lots that were recalled and the
stores that received them, go to the
Kimberly-Clark
website."
Full
story.
Some of you remember another
tampon recall involving deaths
and illness.
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"Contraceptive
Pill Associated With Increased Prostate
Cancer Risk Worldwide, Study
Finds"
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Ad for New
Freedom towel (sanitary napkin)
and pantie set, U. K., 1973
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Oldest painted object in central Europe
(Germany's Swabian Alps) found, about 15,
000 years old;
possibly a menstrual calendar.
See
the red dots and read the story
(in
German)
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Ad for the
Kotex puberty booklet
"As One Girl To Another"
probably early 1940s, U.S.A.
"They're
cute, mother--
a cotton nightie is primitive"
#9 in a series of ads for
Modess menstrual pads called
Modernizing
Mother, November 1929
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"[I]t must be the earliest
representation of childbirth in
Western art"
Piece of ceramic jar found in
Italy, 2,700
years old, shows woman having
baby;
(look hard & long in the center, top
to bottom).
Read
the story and see the image.
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Ad for Quest
menstrual pad powder
from Kotex, 1940s-1950s
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Battle
between father (placenta) and mother,
and PP13, threatens the pregnant woman
according to a new theory
More in the fascinating
story
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Modess flexible
tampons,
ads, 1956 &
1958
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Being fat
preserves your mind after menopause?
Read the encouraging
finding.
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Menstruation might reduce
brain disease risk.
Read
the interesting story.
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"Four Young Men Go In Search Of A
Profit!"
In
1957, the president of
Kimberly-Clark (maker of Kotex)
told his
company history to the
Newcomen Society.
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"Do Women's Voices Really
Allow Men to Detect Ovulation?
No,
Says New Study"
Read the article.
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Healthline.com
recently launched a free
interactive “Human
Female Chest in 3D” tool.
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Recent instructions
for the Japanese Elldy tampon,
which has finger
protectors. I thank the
Hispanic woman
in Japan!
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Two new
Words and expressions for menstruation:
Germany:
Eine Strafe Gottes (A
punishment of God)
USA:
It's Tuesday
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"Use of IUDs [intrauterine
devices] May Cut Cervical Cancer Risk"
Read
the story.
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"Bruce Dan, Who
Helped Link Toxic Shock and
Tampons, Is Dead at 64"
Read
the New York Times story
Read
about a key player in
the story.
Rely
tampon.
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Birth
control pills affect memory in
interesting ways
(Article)
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"Cycling:
A
Guide to Menstruation"
by Laura Szumowski,
finds some of its inspiration for its
facts and
drawings from this Web site (like here). But
a booklet on this page (I
can't
figure out which one!) also plays with
the word
cycle
on its cover.
Short and sweet.
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4 new
contributions to
Would you stop
menstruating if you
could?
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Evax
menstrual pads ad, 1972, from Chile
NEW
Words and expressions for menstruation:
U.S.A.: Pip (see last
part of the entry)
The word seems to come only from
Virginia.
Beach reading:
Effie by
Suzanne Cooper
It has it all,
folks!
Science marches
on!
Arcross
tampons, 1960
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