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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Instructions for the Tassaway menstrual cup
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This is a section of the instructions for the
Tassaway menstrual cup, from the 1970s, donated by Dr.
Philip Tierno of the New York University Medical Center.
The wearer folds the cup just as she does today's
Keeper cup, and inserts it sitting on the toilet.
The cup had to protrude slightly from the vagina when the legs were apart. A user of today's Instead cup inserts it far
into the vagina, next to the cervix.
The woman removed it by hooking a finger through
the loop and gently pulling, breaking the vacuum seal.
Tassaway - pronounce it tossaway
and you'll see that it was a disposable, like today's Instead - failed probably
for a number of reasons, including the irritation
caused by the sharp edges of the protruding rings around the cup, placed there to help hold the cup in position.
The Tassette company made the reusable Tassette cup in the 1960s; this
failed too.
The spiritual successor to these cups is The
Keeper. See an advertisement for Tassaway,
and the cup itself, and the history of the Tassaway and other cups.
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