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See also Australian
douche ad (ca. 1900) - Fresca
douche powder (U.S.A.)
(date ?) - Kotique
douche liquid ad, 1974 (U.S.A.)
- Liasan (1)
genital wash ad, 1980s (Germany)
- Liasan (2)
genital wash ad, 1980s (Germany)
- Lysol douche
liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Lysol douche liquid
ad, 1948 (U.S.A.) - Marvel
douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Midol menstrual
pain pill ad, 1938 (U.S.A.) - Midol booklet
(selections),
1959 (U.S.A.) - Mum
deodorant cream ad, 1926 (U.S.A.)
- Myzone menstrual
pain pill, 1952 (Australia)
- Pristeen
genital spray ad, 1969 (U.S.A.) -
Spalt pain
tablets, 1936 (Germany) - Sterizol douche
liquid ad, 1926 (U.S.A.) - Vionell
genital spray ad, 1970, with Cheryl Tiegs
(Germany) - Zonite
douche ad, 1928 (U.S.A.)
See a Modess True
or False? ad in The American
Girl magazine, January 1947, and actress Carol Lynley
in "How Shall I Tell My Daughter" booklet ad
(1955) - Modess . . .
. because ads (many dates).
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THE MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S
HEALTH
Lysol ad from March 1948
In an earlier era, officially,
only married people were supposed
to
practice sex, and thus be
concerned with the effects of
genital odor, except
for menstrual odor, which was
everybody's concern - and still is
(read what
causes it). Squirting Lysol
up the vagina made
it a bacteria-poor container, all
set to let the stronger, surviving
organisms
multiply and cause problems worse
than odor, and eliminating the
healthy bacteria that are
inhabitants of the vagina. And, of
course, the odor
in the first place may have
indicated serious problems,
problems for the
doctor, not Lysol.
Women also used Lysol as a
birth-control device, douching
with it to
kill sperm. Andrea Tone, in Devices &
Desires
(2001, Hill & Wang), writes of
the vaginas that the liquid
burned, as
does the book Facts
and Frauds in Woman's Hygiene,
from 1936. See another Lysol
douche liquid
ad, from 1928. But see a letter
from an 89-year-old
Canadian
woman who started douching
with Lysol at 17, in the February
2005 MUM News.
Read 1930s criticism
of Zonite and Lysol.
Lysol information in old
newspapers and see
Lysol ads from 1928 and 1934.
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