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 pills ad, 1952 (Australia) - Pristeen genital spray
ad, 1969 (U.S.A.) - Spalt
pain tablets, 1936 (Germany) - Vionell genital spray ad,
1970, with Cheryl Tiegs (Germany) - Zonite douche liquid ad,
1928 (U.S.A.)
The Perils of Vaginal
Douching (essay by Luci Capo Rome) - the odor page
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Museum of Menstruation and
Women's Health
Lysol
douche ad, Sept. 1928, unknown
magazine, U.S.A
"Now I know...!"
Lehn & Fink, Inc.
Milady
found Lysol hugely versatile!
After using it to clean her toilet
bowl, she could squirt it into her
vagina to douse (1) odor
and (2) sperm - two birds
with one stone, so to speak. Three birds
if she reused the toilet bowel dose.
Sorry, that made me ill, too.
Ill?
At least one book appeared that
described the harm to women the
disinfectant caused, Fact and Frauds
in Woman's Hygiene, which headed
to market six years after this ad.
Not only was (and is) genital odor a
woman's concern, so was not
getting pregnant; men cared
about both topics too. Lysol tiptoed
around that legally delicate subject
in a booklet
a few years later.
Perhaps around this time, maybe later,
the company that distributed Lysol
produced a tampon
- another birth control device?
Read 1930s criticism
of Zonite and Lysol.
Visit the odor
page.
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Below: The
black and white ad occupied the outer
right half of the 11 x 14" (27.9
x 35.6 cm) page.
"[T]he
wrong disinfectant"? Zonite, maybe?
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Below: That
animal on her shoulder was alive when
she left the house. And those flowers
in her hand, carried the way Germans
do - well, we all know what
happens to flowers around
menstruating women, don't we?
Science proves
it!
Wait, maybe they're gloves.
Genital odor killed
grass in another ad!
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Read 1930s criticism
of Zonite and Lysol and see Lysol
ads from 1928
and 1948.
Visit the odor
page.
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Marvel douche liquid ad
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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 pills ad, 1952
(Australia) - Pristeen
genital spray ad, 1969 (U.S.A.) - Spalt pain
tablets, 1936 (Germany) - Vionell genital
spray ad, 1970, with Cheryl Tiegs
(Germany) - Zonite
douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.)
The Perils of
Vaginal Douching (essay by Luci
Capo Rome) - the odor
page
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