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 bacteria
which are an inhabitant of the healthy 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.
Large file, long download!
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