Booklets menstrual hygiene companies made
for girls, women and teachers - patent medicine
- a list of books and articles about menstruation
- videos
See a Kotex ad advertising a Marjorie May
booklet.
See many more similar booklets.
See ads for menarche-education booklets:
Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1932),
Tampax tampons (1970, with Susan Dey), Personal
Products (1955, with Carol Lynley), and German o.b.
tampons (lower ad, 1981)
And read Lynn Peril's series about these
and similar booklets!
Read the full text of the 1935 Canadian edition
of Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, probably identical to the American edition.
More ads for teens (see also introductory
page for teenage advertising): Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins and Quest napkin powder, 1948, U.S.A.),
Are you in the know? (Kotex
napkins and belts, 1949, U.S.A.)Are you in
the know? (Kotex napkins, 1953, U.S.A.),
Are you in the know? (Kotex
napkins and belts, 1964, U.S.A.), Freedom
(1990, Germany), Kotex (1992, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Saba (1975, Denmark)
See early tampons and a list of tampon on this site - at least the ones I've cataloged.
 
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Ad for Tassaway menstrual cup, the Netherlands, in Libelle,
22 June 1973
(Photos of the cup sit under the ad.)
This is yet another Tassaway ad that appeared in a European magazine.
Read the general discussion with the earlier ad.
By the way, "cup" is also a word in Dutch, meaning - cup. So apparently
this isn't a case of taking over an English word for marketing purposes.
Remember Volkswagen's using "Fahrvergnügen" in American ads?
A Dutchman kindly sent this scan.
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A woman wrote to this museum that she had sharp memories of the rings
that circle the entrance to the cup - they injured her vagina. I suspect
they were supposed to increase the grip on the vagina to keep the cup in
place. You can see (I hope) two tiny holes (although there are really three)
on the cop maybe 1" above the, yes, "1"" on the side
view, which apparently served to allow air in and out so the user could
pull just the darned thing out and not her uterus. Men live such simple
lives, at least reproductively.
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