See ads for menarche-education booklets: Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1933), Tampax tampons (1970, with Susan Dey), Personal Products (1955, with Carol Lynley), and German o.b. tampons (lower ad, 1970s)
See also the booklets How shall I tell my daughter? (Modess, various dates), Growing up and liking it (Modess, various dates), and Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1928).
And read Lynn Peril's series about these and similar booklets!
See more Kotex items: First ad (1921) - ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck catalog) - Lee Miller ads (first real person in amenstrual hygiene ad, 1928) - Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928, Australian edition; there are many links here to Kotex items) - Preparing for Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls; Australian edition) - 1920s booklet in Spanish showing disposal method - box from about 1969 - "Are you in the know?" ads (Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) - See more ads on the Ads for Teenagers main page
DIRECTORY of all topics (See also the SEARCH ENGINE, bottom of page.)
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Some MUM site links:
homepage | LIST OF ALL TOPICS | MUM address & What does MUM mean? | e-mail the museum | privacy on this site | who runs this museum?? |
Amazing women! | the art of menstruation | artists (non-menstrual) | asbestos | belts | bidets | founder bio | Bly, Nellie | MUM board | books: menstruation and menopause (and reviews) | cats | company booklets for girls (mostly) directory | contraception and religion | costumes | menstrual cups | cup usage | dispensers | douches, pain, sprays | essay directory | extraction | facts-of-life booklets for girls | famous women in menstrual hygiene ads | FAQ | founder/director biography | gynecological topics by Dr. Soucasaux | humor | huts | links | masturbation | media coverage of MUM | menarche booklets for girls and parents | miscellaneous | museum future | Norwegian menstruation exhibit | odor | olor | pad directory | patent medicine | poetry directory | products, current | puberty booklets for girls and parents | religion | Religión y menstruación | your remedies for menstrual discomfort | menstrual products safety | science | Seguridad de productos para la menstruación | shame | slapping, menstrual | sponges | synchrony | tampon directory | early tampons | teen ads directory | tour of the former museum (video) | underpants & panties directory | videos, films directory | Words and expressions about menstruation | Would you stop menstruating if you could? | What did women do about menstruation in the past? | washable pads
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.


THE MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH - 1997

Does Anyone Have a Tassette Cup??

Does anyone have a Tassette cup - the 1960s predecessor of the Tassaway cup discussed above - she or he will donate to MUM??

If you do, you will be showered with praise, publicity (if you want it) and in extreme cases, money (but I can't afford too much).

Folks, you will be advancing civilization and the cause of well-intentioned people everywhere, doves will be released in town squares about the globe to pealing bells, and I will authorize the mint of the Museum of Menstruation to strike a coin bearing your likeness and that of Mack C. Padd (I'm crossing my fingers behind my back), but mainly you will enable me to have a great exhibit in MUM of EVERY MENSTRUAL CUP MADE IN THE USA!!

Do you UNDERSTAND what this means??

Let's Take a Break From Menstruation!

This picture of Bootsie is from the 1996 calendar Why Cats Paint, by Heather Busch and Burton Silver (Ten Speed Press), the most brilliant combination of pictures and text I have seen satirizing the world of art (I'm an artist); it's based on a book. A co-worker in my real job gave it to me; I can't think of anything nicer to get (except the Tassette cup, mentioned above).When you visit MUM, if you say Bootsie and Mack C. Padd (say it quickly), I will let you see it for a short time.


In Combat, What to Do About Menstruation, Etc.?

A researcher from the office of Dr. Barbara Czerwinski, who helped design the hygienic setup for the space shuttle, visited MUM from the University of Texas at Houston recently. She sought information for a large study being conducted by Dr. Czerwinski concerning the hygienic requirements of women combatants in war. Women in combat is a hotly debated topic, folks.

A woman friend of mine, who had spent time in the army, said that when wearing the gear protecting against chemical and biological attack on the battlefield, soldiers must defecate and urinate into their clothing, as opening the suit would defeat its purpose. Discarding menstrual pads, tampons or cups would be impossible.

As expected, says another source, women pilots stifle any urge to complain about whatever menstrual miseries they may have, for fear (I'm sure justified, as a male who has worked with males in the Department of Defense for over twenty years, seven in the Pentagon) of showing weakness in a specifically female way. The armed forces are a very male workplace, although I can attest that they are trying hard to treat women equally, and probably doing it better than most.

Look at Terrafemme Tampons and Great Information

Speaking of the Natracare v. Tampax lawsuit (next item below) about the content of cotton tampons, check out the Terrafem Web site for its own cotton tampon and a wealth of information about dioxin, toxic shock, and scores of Web sites dealing with women's health.

Natracare Sues Tampax

Natracare, LLC, a small Denver (Colorado)-based company which sells the Natracare all-cotton tampon and menstrual pad product line in the United States, filed suit on 7 January in U.S. District Court for Colorado against Tambrands, Inc., makers of Tampax tampons, and Ecofem of Toronto, Canada, which also makes menstrual products for women.

In the suit, Natracare claims unfair advertising and unfair competition with respect to the marketing of Tampax Naturals (TM) applicator-style tampons, which Tampax launched in 1996.

Tambrands markets the Naturals as 100% cotton; Natracare says they are not, and can prove it.

The issue is important. Dr. Philip M. Tierno, Jr., a leading toxic shock researcher based at the New York University Medical Center, has published extensively showing the connection between artificial fibers and toxic shock. He recommends women use only pure cotton tampons. Natracare has produced such tampons and pads for years.

Also accused of using artificial fibers mixed with cotton, while claiming pure cotton, is Ecofem.

Richard Ruh, attorney for Natracare, said the case is similar to successful litigation pursued by Florida orange juice producers against other companies who claimed that they also sold 100% pure Florida orange juice.

"If, as Tambrands, Inc. asserts in their advertising and on product packaging, 'Trust is Tampax,' then it is significant that they are misleading nearly 50% of the consuming public between the ages of 11 and 54," says Susan Carskaden, U.S. Manager of Natracare, LLC.

"We stand firmly behind the product and its advertising," said Janey Lloyd, spokesperson for Tambrands, according to the Rocky Mountain News.


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See Tampax tampons (1970, with Susan Dey), Personal Products (1955, with Carol Lynley), and
German o.b. tampons (lower ad, 1981) See a Lucky Strike cigarettes ad from 1933.

See ads for menarche-education booklets: Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1933),
See also the booklets How shall I tell my daughter? (Modess, various dates), Growing up and liking it (Modess, various dates),
and Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1928).
And read Lynn Peril's series about these and similar booklets!
See another ad for As One Girl to Another (1942), and the booklet itself.