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Attention:
Odd looking spaces on the page are created by the ads
& search engine Google deleted
because the company feels the site would embarrass families.
I'll correct the site's thousands of pages as time passes.
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history feminine hygiene tampon pad
sanitary napkin old
ads advertising towel cartoon Kotex
Modess Pursettes Carefree Tampax puberty preteen
advice menstruation magazine
Tampon, napkin, menstruation & puberty ads on
this site
for teenage girls
Professor Joan Brumberg discusses
advertising directed at teenagers
in her book The Body
Project, which should be
required reading for everybody.
If a manufacturer can convince a teen to
use its pad or tampon, chances
are good she will continue to use that
product throughout her life. (The
same applies to cigarettes and many other
products, which explains the current
effort in the U.S.A. to restrict cigarette
advertising to post adolescents,
who are less likely to be beginner smokers.)
The taboo nature of menstruation inhibits
many women from openly discussing
and comparing menstrual hygiene products,
which gives manufacturers the
upper hand. Openness is better. It's
interesting that in most of the ads
shown here, girls DO consult with each
other, and choose the product advertised.
Boys figure heavily
in this teen advertising.
The right product gets the guy! And how
humiliating if he discovers she
is menstruating!
See famous woman, some under twenty, in
menstrual products advertising,
and facts-of-life booklets
for girls. Read most of the 1928 Kotex
booklet Marjorie
May's
Twelfth Birthday, and all of the Kotex
booklets
(mid 1930s) Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday,
Marjorie May Learns About Life, and
Facts About Menstruation that every
Woman should know.
Site directories for
tampons,
early American
tampons,
pads, and underwear.
(Google ad[s] below, are deleted because
the company feels this site is too
embarrassing for families.)
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(Historic ads below) See
BOOKLETS companies made for teenage
girls & women
Are you in the know? (U.S.A., Kotex napkins, late
1940s-1950s?)
Are you in the know? (U.S.A., Kotex napkins, late
1940s-1950s?)
Are you in the know? GREAT
BOOKLET (U.S.A.,
Kotex napkins and belts, 1956)
Are you in the know? (U.S.A., Kotex napkins and belts,
1950s)
Carefree (Germany,
Johnson & Johnson, 1983 & 1989) two ads
for preteens and young teens
Carefree (Germany, Johnson & Johnson,
1990)
Carefree (Germany, Johnson & Johnson,
1989, 1990)
Carefree (U.S.A., Personal Products, about
1990) colored pantiliners
Freedom (Germany, Kimberly-Clark, maker of
Kotex, 1990)
Kotex (U.S.A., 1992)
Kotex (U.S.A., 1920s) features skaters
Kotex (U.S.A., 1960) features skaters
o.b. (Germany, 1978 and 1981, a tampon
made in Germany by Dr. Carl Hahn GmbH, and from
1974,
in America, by Johnson & Johnson)
Pursettes (an American tampon no longer
produced, July 1972)
Pursettes (U.S.A., September 1972)
Pursettes (U.S.A., August 1973)
Pursettes (U.S.A., August 1974)
Saba (Denmark, Billed Bladet magazine,
about 1975)
San-Nap-Pak (U.S.A., menstrual pads,
obsolete, July 1945)
Tampax "Are you sure I'll still be a
virgin?" (U.S.A., 1990)
Vania Girl's (France, panty pad and tampon,
1991)
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