See the fax tampon and the almost identical tampon Nunap sold probably about the same time, both probably made of Cellucotton, the component of Kotex.
See other marketing devices: Ad-design contest for menstrual products in the United Kingdom; B-ettes tampon counter-display box and proposal to dealers, with contract; (U.S.A., donated by Procter & Gamble, 2001); "Your Image is Your Fortune!," Modess sales-hints booklet for stores, 1967 (U.S.A., donated by Tambrands, 1997)
SEE ALSO the directory of all tampons on this site.
A prominent American gynecologist said in 1945 that medical tampons "used to pay the office rent."
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CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
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MUM address & What does MUM mean? |
Email the museum |
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Amazing women! |
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Words and expressions about menstruation |
Would you stop menstruating if you could? |
What did women do about menstruation in the past? |
Washable pads |
Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site.
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.

fax tampon clip sheet for publications (early-to-mid 1930s, U.S.A.)

Ads stressing no "pins, pads or belts" started at the very beginning of tampon advertising. Read about women's unhappiness with pads in the Gilbreth Report (1927) and the Dickinson Report (1945).

Why the name fax? (See the tampon and read more about it.) A woman who listened to Howard Stern's radio interview with me in 1998 came up with an intriguing explanation, that it's a kind of acronym for Freedom, Comfort, Convenience (FCC), words on a fax counter display.

One thing that amazes me is the sophistication of the pitch to retailers, which I once thought had more modern origins. But early Kotex campaigns showed similar sophistication, showing the mercantile minds of Wallace Meyer and Albert Lasker, the latter also responsible for naming Planned Parenthood, for first using the word cancer on the radio and for being an inspiration behind the National Institutes of Health and the Lasker Awards in medicine, America's highest.

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