Letters to your MUM
A homosexual American man muses about the museum
YOU CRAZY LESBIANS HAVE GONE TOO DAMN FAR!!! [Uh-oh. Should
I tell him the truth?] HOW COULD ELIMINATED BLOOD
AND FLESH SMELL LIKE MARIGOLDS? [The writer must have read the Odor page. Good for him!] AM I NUTS TO THINK THAT AFTER
X AMOUNT OF YEARS ON THIS PLANET THAT THE WORLD DOESN'T KNOW ABOUT PERIODS
AND SUCH? N-A-S-T-Y!!!!
YES, I'M A MAN, AND IF I WAS STRAIGHT, I SURE WOULDN'T WANT TO SMELL
SOME VAGINA THAT BLED AND FLUSHED TISSUE OUT. IN THE 17TH CENTURY, PEOPLE
WORE WIGS BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT TO WASH THEIR HAIR. YET YOU AGREE WITH
THEM, THAT BLEEDING VAGINAS SMELL LIKE SOME DAMN FLOWER. GO LIVE IN THE
17TH CENTURY, CRAZY DUMB ASS. THOSE PEOPLE LIVED TO BE 30 AT THE MOST.
IT WASN'T GOOD HYGIENE THAT KEPT THEM ALIVE.
WHY I AM WRITING YOU THIS LETTER, I DON'T KNOW. I'M JUST TIRED OF CRAZY-ASS
STUFF ON THE WEB, BUT YA'LL ARE BON-A-FIED [What a clever version of bona fide!] CRACKY.
DON'T EVEN WRITE ME BACK. I DON'T CARE TO HEAR FROM YOU.
A TV production company asks, "Did you celebrate
your period?"
If you had a party or created a ritual to celebrate your first period,
we would be interested in hearing your story and seeing your videos, pictures.
This would be for possible inclusion in a television documentary called
Reinventing Rituals, Coming of Age in a Modern World
for Vision Television, in Canada.
Series consultant is Ron Grimes, internationally recognized expert
on ritual and the author of numerous books on ritual including his most
recent, Deeply Into the Bone, Reinvented Rite of
Passage.
These three one hour specials, Coming of Age
in the Modern World; Marriage Separation and
Divorce; and Birth and Death are co-production
between Northern Lights Television in Toronto and Ocean Entertainment in
Halifax for Vision Television Network. They will air on Vision TV, a Canadian
specialty channel whose mandate is to cover multi-faith, multicultural
stories about the human spirit.
Reinventing Rituals will explore exotic cultures and ceremonies that
may, on the surface, bear little resemblance to the hallmarks of our own
lives. We will witness dramatic initiation ceremonies from Africa, complex
funerals from New Guinea, and elaborate wedding and courtship rituals from
South America. Viewers will become acquainted with traditional rites from
many different cultures, contemporary and historic.
However, at the core of this series are the North Americans who are
exploring new ways to mark transitions. We'll meet parents who are preparing
to spend their children out in the mountains to spend grueling days and
nights in initiation ceremonies; individuals who are approaching the end
of life determined to design all aspects of their own funerals; and expectant
couples who are redefining appropriate behaviour in the birthing room.
This series is about these men and women and their quest to reinvent traditional
rites of passage; but it's also about the connections that can be drawn
between these modern pioneers and their counterparts in other times and
places.
Program #1 The Bridge: Coming of Age in the Modern
Reinventing Rites of Passage.
Reinventing Rituals is a compelling series of television documentaries
that explore the dramatic resurgence in ritual and how it is being interpreted
or recreated in order to give meaning to our lives.
From first menstruation ceremonies to vision quests, traditional societies
have used ritual to help young people mark and make the transition from
adolescence to adulthood. All but abandoned by Western culture, initiation
rituals are suddenly becoming more popular.
The increasing profile of street gangs, drug wars, and teenage promiscuity
in our communities have contributed to rising the popularity of the coming
of age rituals. Many parents fear that if they do not provide an initiation
scenario their children will initiate themselves using sex, drugs or dangerous
behaviour. By enrolling their children in complex and often dramatic initiation
rites, families can help young people make the difficult transition to
adulthood. In this program we meet youth at the National Rites of Passage
Institute in Cleveland Ohio who have spent the past year in a coming of
age program. And then we'll join up with teenagers who've enrolled in a
10 day-long program outside Calgary, Alberta as they prepare to spend three
World
If you are interested and/or need more information,
contact
Deannie Sullivan Fraser
902-423-9056 phone
902-423-9058 fax
SNAIL MAIL: Ocean ENTERTAINMENT, SUITE 404, 1657 BARRINGTON STREET,
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA B3J 2A1
The woman writer believes the future museum should charge
admission
Oh, my God!! I laughed so much. I even learned
a thing or two. I have always been interested in "off-beat" museums.
I don't give a rat's ass if you are a man and
doing the museum. [Read what a Tampax
official e-mailed me about this.] If anything,
why didn't a woman think of it? [Good question.] How this site could be
thought of as sexist baffles me. Probably the same people who think they
don't have to pay taxes and make their own money. Anyway, I found your
site very informative, a wonderful and complete collection. I hope to make
a trip to D.C. [District of Columbia; the museum was in one of its suburbs]
sometime in the near future and will absolutely make a stop at your museum
should you be up and running. (I hope you will be.)
Just a thought, though.
I believe you should charge a small admission
fee - $5 or something. Obviously it costs money to buy these "collectables"
and such. It costs money for utilities and space and as well as the many
hours you invest in this project. I don't think anyone would be offended
or surprised at having to pay for admission. [Some have told me that I
would be exploiting women by doing so.] Many museums charge and understandably
so. I think a small fee would lend to the authenticity of your museum,
in a small way.
Anyway, I love your work and will surely check
back again. Have a great holiday.
Does anyone know
about sphagnum "moss" as a menstrual absorbent??
Do you have any information regarding sphagnum? If so could you e-mail
it to me?
Belted pads in RiteAid drugstores
Hi, Harry,
FYI: it turns out RiteAid drugstores sell a belted hospital style maxi
(their brand) out here on the West Coast [U.S.A.]. [Several people wanted
to know where to get belted pads now that Kotex and supposedly Modess have
stopped making them.]
Read about and see the mikvah
Here is a Web page about the Jewish
mikvah [a bath that some Jewish woman use after finishing their period],
including pictures of a modern one, and another Jewish
ritual-purity site.
Check out behavior
during niddah (the time when a woman is menstruating in Judaism). I
can't imagine anyone following all these rules. [Read more about religion and menstruation.]
[The writer added that she is the mother of two "wunderkinder"
- German, and maybe Yiddish, for "amazing children" - a daughter
aged 12 and a son, 9.]
Add more topics to this Web site
Hi,
I found your site fascinating. I came across it researching women's
rituals for a lecture I will be giving in April on the same topic for La
Leche League of New Jersey.
Three things I wanted to add:
1. There is a Native American menstrual hut at Waterloo Village [New
Jersey?]. I have pictures.
2. As a LLL leader, giving breast feeding advice for ten years, we
talk about not having a period after giving birth. I didn't see anything
about this on your Web site.
3. I have led several menses rituals and again you had nothing about
this on your site.
I tell you not as a criticism but since you seem so thorough you might
want to include them.
[Would you write something about them and send
them in? I'm usually happy to publish information that readers send,
especially on topics not covered or about which they know more than I do.
But the articles should usually be ready to publish,
as I only work on the site weekends and time is ferociously short.]
Can a philosopher run a museum?
Just discovered your site; having a M.A. in Psychology with emphasis
in depth psychology, which is well grounded in philosophy, I could not
think of a better person to curate MUM. Just my initial reaction. [Thanks!
I have a B.A. in philosophy from Johns Hopkins. Read about the future museum.]
How to earn your Hell's Angels red wings
I enjoy your Web site very much; it's refreshing to see such a comprehensive
and non-biased presentation of a topic where information can be so evasive.
Here's something I heard maybe you could use.
In the Hell's Angels [motorcycle club], if they enjoyed having intercourse
(probably not the term they used) with a woman while she was menstruating,
the wings on their jacket's logo were red. I don't know what to think of
that.
I don't know that I'd want to get rid of my periods; sometimes I quite
like them and other times it can be irksome. [She is responding to my question,
"Would you stop menstruating if you could? Read more
replies.] I think the worst thing is when
the product you are using is no longer useful and you cannot leave for
whatever reason to change it, thus staining your clothing. Also sleeping
with it can be a pain, especially as I hate pads. I am considering buying
a Keeper [menstrual cup; read about the history of cups], though (another thing your helpful
site informed me of). I think periods can feel very nice, though, and even
comforting.
Thank you for your time and effort. Please continue.
A baby in every bottle?
Hi, Harry,
My mother used to tell me that my grandparents had been married several
years and they were childless. She said Granny used to say, "I drank
bottle after bottle of Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, and nothing happened. There was supposed to be a baby in
every bottle."
Do you know anything about the claim that drinking Lydia Pinkham would
aid a woman in getting pregnant? [I'm not sure if the herbs in the liquid
or the alcohol lent credence to that belief, but I've heard it and read
it many times. I can't say if it was true.]
Thank you for your time.
Calculate your period, dates for conception, etc.
Dear Harry!
We, atomintersoft, very much liked your site. Our firm is the developer
of the widely known program Bloodays - www.bloodays.com.
We think the information in our program will be rather useful and would
be interesting to the visitors of your site.
AiS Bloodays has won awards, for example, five cows from www.tucows.com
Bloodays is an excellent family-planning tool with easy-to-use tools.
Bloodays is an interesting download that calculates a woman's menstrual
cycle.
Of course, you don't need a Windows program to do that, but it's useful
too especially if you're planning to bring a child into the world. Bloodays
will determine the day when you (or your significant other) are ovulating,
thus boosting the chances for conception. It can also suggest the days
that you could potentially conceive a boy or girl. In addition, Bloodays
can calculate the child's birth date, and suggest days couples can mate
when conception isn't likely to occur.
Bloodays is a simple program that's easy to use and understand. Its
interface displays a multi-year calculator, which can be scrolled to any
time period in the past, present and future. When you run it the first
time, just click a date to set the first date of menstruation. The program
then calculates ovulation and special gender dates. Use the same menu dialog
to display the conception and birth prognosis.
The calendar, including the color-coded analysis, may be printed. If
you will count this information useful to the visitors of your site and
place on the site the information about AiS Bloodays, we shall be rather
grateful to you. In a mark of gratitude we shall be glad to place the reference
to your site on our site www.bloodays.com
Best regards,
Roman Sholohov
The Red Tent
Book by Anita Diamant
c. 1997 by Anita Diamant
A Wyatt book for St Martin's Press
ISBN 0-312-16978-7
Have you read it? [Not yet, but a friend sent me a copy.]
It focuses almost entirely on the menstrual tent (the Red Tent) and
it makes it seem quite positive, not as negative as it seems some cultures
made it out to be. It is from the perspective of Dinah, the daughter of
the Jacob who later became Israel. I am not finished, but thought I'd mention
it to you know while I'm thinking about it. It sure puts a whole different
light on the idea of menstruation - that it can be a time of joy and fellowship,
a time of rest almost. The first trip to the tent included special cakes
and wonderful treatment for the young girl. Births took place there, too.
This is a work of fiction, and I'm trying to find out how much of it
is fact and how much of it is the author's imagination.
Btw, I find your site very informative and am looking forward to learning
more about Seasonale (a proposed hormone pill
for the average woman that limits menstruation to only four times a year).
We need a physical as well as a virtual museum
Mr. Finley,
Congratulations on a well-researched and amazingly informative site
(I found it via the Roadside
America site). While I agree that the physical artifacts certainly
deserve to be housed in a real-world museum, on the Web this fascinating
collection is now accessible worldwide. [Right!]
Best regards,
[At the bottom of the e-mail was this quote]
"Jesus said, 'If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring
forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what
you do not bring forth will destroy you.'"
Saying 70, Coptic Gospel of Thomas
A tampon carrier and tampon shame
Have you seen these? They're from BUST magazine's online store and
are tampon cases with neat and funny art on them. Not everyone would want
their tampon case to say "tampon case" on it in bright red letters,
but I think they're super. See
and
They also have magnets featuring a happy girl holding a box of Vinnie's
tampons, and "PMS" bars, which look like the kind of chocolate
bars Cub Scouts sell to raise funds, but with colorful labels with womens
faces on them. [See Vinnie's tampon case on
this site. Bust magazine included me in their list of the 100 "Bustiest
Men We Love" in the Fall 2000 issue.]
Many girlies my age (I'm a senior in high school) and younger are awfully
embarrassed about others seeing they have tampons, or any proof that they
might menstruate, Heaven forbid. I don't really understand this. [See an
ad demonstrating this.]
Since my mom is embarrassed by discussing menstruation and my boyfriend
is not, and I don't have any close friends that are girls, I probably talk
about such things with him more than I do with anyone else.
Anyway, I was in a motor crash yesterday and he was with me in the
car, both of us wore are safety belts but I was considerably more hurt
than him. An ambulance showed up and he rode in it with me, and the paramedic
asked me some basic questions: name, address, etc. He asked for my weight
and my boyfriend jokingly covered his ears. The paramedic said, "Son,
you ought to really cover your ears for the next question," which
was when was your last period. Not for men's ears! He and I had a little
laugh about that later.
I used to make "wind chimes" out of tampons, basically decorating
their applicators with stickers, paint, glitter, and other interesting
things, and tying their strings around a wire hoop. They didn't really
chime, but they made me laugh. I sent this idea to Tampax and said they
ought to have an "arts and crafts" section on their box. They
have not yet replied.
I hope you can use this info in some way. [Many thanks!]
Menstrual blood painting from Hawaii
Dear Harry, MUMS, Museum of Menstruation,
I have been to your site and really appreciate what you are doing.
I have been "painting" with my menses blood since 1976 and
have a huge body of art created with it, called "The Art of JuiceyLiving."
People have often commented that this art needs to be seen and is very
supportive in reconnecting us back to our natural body functions. It is
so much more, you have to see it to understand.
My partner and I have just opened a new website, www.transformationalart.com
featuring this art. It is supportive and educational.
The MoonTime Gallery on our site, www.transformationalart.com/mohe/visuals/ajl/moong/moong.html,
which highlights Menstrual Blood Art, is just opening this week. I would
be interested in being linked from your sight and being able to feature
some of my art in your gallery. I already have you linked from our site.
Take a look and let me know what you think.
Love to you and alohas.
Saleena Ki'
[As I look at the snow on my neighbor's roof, I remember the sounds
of a ukelele, the wind and the waves - nothing more! - at 6 on a Sunday
morning on the beach at Fort DeRussey, just a trillion grains of sand from
Waikiki, where my mom, my little brother and I tarried for three days on
Hawaii on our way to San Francisco from the island of Okinawa, in the South
China Sea, where we had lived for one-and-a-half years. I was 15 and I
was head-over-heels in love with the Pacific Ocean and its islands and
with an an older woman, a Korean-American born in Hawaii, whom I would
shyly call my first girlfriend. She was 16.]
A woman from a collective writes
Dear Mr. Finley,
I am from Long Island [New York] and I have known about your museum
for quite some time now. I think it is amazing that you are dealing with
the subject of menstruation in such a positive light; women have been made
to feel shameful about our bodies for centuries and it is so important
to inform the public about menstruation cross-culturally, as well as within
our own society.
I am a member of the Modern Times Collective on Long Island, a non-hierarchical,
community-based activist network that aims to build positive institutions
within our community through education and mutual aid. Long Island, like
everywhere else, is devoid of a positive space for women to convene, discuss
and organize; myself and other female members have been trying to develop
such as space and to create a forum to discuss women's issues in order
to inform and empower.
Our focus lately has been on the politics of menstruation - how power
relations have played a role in the way menstruation is viewed and the
ways in which our blood has been used for profit by corporations that ultimately
pollute our bodies and the environment (i.e. through the use of harmful
dioxin). More importantly, our goal is to reclaim our knowledge of our
bodies and to subvert the shame we are made to feel by the fear and silence
surrounding menstruation. I feel this can be accomplished by getting together
with groups of women to participate more in our menstrual lives; so far
we have had a "pad-making party" at which we got together to
socialize and make homemade menstrual pads out of flannel and terry cloth.
[See some commercial washable pads and older
ones made at home.]
We have also distributed literature at conferences, shows and community
centers, alerting people to the dangers of chlorine-bleached tampons while
providing resources of alternatives like the Keeper,
Natracare tampons, sea sponges, Glad Rags, and
Luna Pads.
We were looking forward to visiting your museum and speaking with you,
although I'm a bit disappointed to see that it has since closed. However,
I read your plans for the new museum and I look
forward to visiting (and learning!) Keep up the good work!!
Liz Young
P.S. We publish our own quarterly newspaper ("modern times")
in which reproductive rights/menstruation, among other things, are always
a topic and we are interested in interviewing you for an upcoming issue.
I would like to do a piece on the different menstrual products used by
women through time and how the concept of "discreetness" seems
to have intensified in recent years. We can also list your organization
as a link on our Web page: http://www.aao.net
Menstrual products have changed a bit in 30 years, says this woman
I found your article in Me First magazine. Then I came to the Web site
about your idea about a museum and I think it is great.
I am only 35 and I have seen changes in pads and lifestyles, and I
found it very interesting about how old pads
looked.
Try Canada, like Toronto [for the museum].
Good luck for the museum. I think you're a genius for coming up with
the idea.
The "Moral Court" television show
aired again (it's syndicated on the Warner Brothers channel (U.S.A.); read
a short description
of it and some earlier viewers' comments)
From a woman in Los Angeles, California
Hi, Harry,
I just saw you on "Moral Court." YOU GO!!! I think your museum
is great, and I wish more men could be as open as you about the whole thing!
Good luck, Harry!
A woman who is a physician writes
Hi,
I just watched the case on Moral Court and thought I would check out
the Web site. I found it quite interesting and very informative. The accuser
was right to walk out because she saw she had no case against you; but
thanks to her, I now know about this site and museum. Keep up the good
job.
An e-mail with the return address of a law firm
Saw you today on MORAL COURT - BRAVO!!!
A woman writes
Hi, There!
I saw you on Moral Court and thought you were great! (What was that
woman's hang-up?)
Anyway, thanks for providing a fun and informative site! (I didn't
know it existed until I saw you on TV.)
See Ya!!!
From a man in Connecticut
I saw your case on Moral Court this morning, and I have to say that
I agree with the judge completely. I really felt that woman was persecuting
you unfairly. I'm glad that the case turned out the way it did, and I commend
you wholeheartedly on providing information to the masses on a very serious,
and complicated, subject. I don't profess to know that woman's mind, but
it seemed to me that she felt you were violating something sacred to the
female gender. To her I say, "Lighten up." Anyway, congratulations
on your histories and keep up the terrific work.
By the way, you might want to contact Yale University here in New Haven,
Connecticut (I'm from Meriden) and ask them if they'd like to sponsor your
exhibits. I have a good feeling about them. Well, so long, and have a Happy
New Year!
And from another L.A. resident
Hi, Harry,
I think your museum should be seen as vividly as the Tar Pits in L.A.
We must stop acting like this is not a part of life.
My husband is the one who purchases me and my daughters napkins and
he sees it as a part of life that will placed upon him every month. It's
as natural as buying groceries.
This museum should be visited by every school
district in this city. [The writer, who saw Moral Court, which was
filmed in Los Angeles {Hollywood}, mistakenly believed that the museum
was in that city; it used to be in a suburb of Washington, D.C.] They already
teach the subject in school and I think visiting the museum on a field
trip should be a part of it. Find that spot, Harry, and help empower our
kids. Your degree [I have a B.A. in philosophy] serves well with the subject,
God and the nature and meaning of life. Think what Eve must have used (smile).
Regards,
From a woman in Virginia
Dear Mr. Finley,
My name is [I deleted it] and I am a counselor and teacher in [I deleted
it] County, Virginia. Like many teachers at home on winter break, I have
reacquainted myself with daytime television over the last week. <grin>
I was actually glad to see the new show "Moral Court," based
on "right vs wrong" as opposed to legal loopholes.
I have to admit I was skeptical initially about a man opening a museum
on menstruation. I assumed it was a fetish gone public. But, watching you
on the show, and reading the information on the Web site, I have concluded
that I was wrong.
I just wanted to write and tell you that I felt you conducted yourself
admirably on the show. You were gracious in "victory," declining
to use the forum to denigrate the young woman who challenged you. I was
very impressed.
Good luck with finding space for your collection. I will come out when
it is complete!!
From a woman inventor in California
Dear Mr. Finley,
My name is [I deleted it] and I live in the city of [I deleted it].
I am also an inventor of a much-needed product for the monthly cycle of
women. I visit your site quite often. I have found it to be very informative
and I have also used it to educate my daughter. I saw you on Moral Court
today and I was very pleased with the judge's decision and I was so pleased
with your sensitivity for the accuser. I would love to visit your museum
in person and speak with you on the product that I am proposing to the
public.
I think it's a wonderful thing that a man would show interest in our
full persons. I know God is watching over you and will grant you a public
place to display your museum. Our children need to know how women years
ago survived before modernization. As you can see, I didn't say "our
daughters," but "our children," because our
young men need to know that this is a normal process. I
feel this will make them more sensitive to the opposite sex and not feel
this is something that should be hidden or taboo, so to speak. [I agree!] Please have a blessed and prosperous
2001.
Regards,
From two women in Los Angeles
Hello!
Today as we were watching TV we saw you on Moral Court. At first we
thought it was strange that you should want to devote your time to a menstruation
museum. However, as we sat watching your case we had a change of heart.
We think you are doing a great thing. We are on your side and we hope you
will have success in the future.
Also, we feel extremely bad about your kitty cat [I lost
one, Minnie Padd]. We have a book about cats that our friend's father
wrote about his cats. We wondered if you would like to read it. Write and
let us know. We could send it to you. Have a wonderful New Year.
Hello Mr. Finley,
From another woman supporter
I just saw "Moral Court" and decided to look up your Web
site so I could e-mail you. I just wanted to say that I appreciate the
fact that you own a museum dedicated to menstruation and I can't believe
someone had the nerve to take you to court just for being a man interested
in the subject enough to have created the museum! Looks to me like she
just became embarrassed when she realized she didn't have a case and that's
probably why she walked out without apologizing. You certainly deserved
an apology from her. I was very happy for you when you won. Good job :-)
From a man in Indiana
I watched you on Moral Court just now. Good going! I too have an interest
in menstruation, though mine is more sexual. But you keep up that good
work; I hope your health prospers and you get that museum gallery started.
That lady was a nut.
Your fan,
From a woman
Dear Mr. Finley,
Initially, it was abject horror and shock that I watched you defend
your MUM - imagine, a MAN having an interest in the "woman's curse"!!!
At first, I was siding with the "feminist" who brought you on
in the first place, then I really thought about it, and thought well, that
you must be a VERY sensitive man who is VERY secure in your masculinity
to even attempt to broach the very private subject of menstruation and
its history of various and sundry inventions.
I even visited your Web site and now am very impressed with your collection
of factual information and "oddities." No WONDER the "feminist"
slinked away with "nothing more to say"! The information on your
site seemed to be accurate, in fact, I have discovered an answer to a menstrual
problem that my gynecologists did not seem to have known about! [!]
So I have opened my mind and learned a thing or two today! I have passed
on your Web site to all of my female counterparts.
Thank you, Mr. Finley, for your wonderful Web site; keep up the great
work!
Kind regards,
From a woman
First, I would like to tell you that I saw you on Moral Court today
and I think that you were right, and it is interesting to see a site like
that. In fact, I hunted for your site after the show.
I would definitely give up my cycle. [She is responding to my question,
"Would you stop menstruating if you could? Read more
replies.] I am 24 years old and have had
one since I was 11. They have been nothing but pain and torture for me.
My cycles were never 5 to 7 days, more like they were gone for 5 to 7 days.
They were always very heavy and I had the worst cramps.
When I got married and decided to have children, I tried for five-and-a-half
years to get pregnant, always hoping each month, and always finding out
"not this time."
I don't feel that having a period makes me a woman, or that it is a
natural experience. There is nothing normal about bleeding for a week straight
every month. Anything else that did that would be dead. :)
Sign me up for the Pill. PLEASE!!!!
From a guy
Hi, Harry,
Saw you on TV - Congrats!!!
I'm a 37-year-old male and I saw you on Moral Court. Congrats on your
victory! I can say that you truly won the case hands down. And, yes, it
was great publicity, that's why I'm here. I think it may put you and your
efforts over the top [I wish!]. Yes, I think your interest is a little
quirky, but I also understand how a collection begins with one item that
is interesting and it just progresses. Being of the male species myself,
I have always been interested in the female menstrual cycle and this interest
has helped me a great deal in my relationships and understanding with the
opposite sex.
Good luck with your Quest,
Washable-pad company for sale
Gayle Adams, owner of Feminine Options, wants
to sell the company to someone willing to put time and energy into it.
The Food and Drug Administration has already approved its products.
Call Gayle at (715) 455-1652 (Wisconsin, U.S.A.).
Money and this site
I, Harry Finley, creator of the museum and site and the "I"
of the narrative here, receive no money for any products or services on
this site. Sometimes people donate items to the museum.
All expenses for the site come out of my pocket, where my salary from
my job as a graphic designer is deposited.
You have privacy
here
What happens when you visit this site?
Nothing.
I get no information about you from any
source when you visit, and I have no idea who you
are, before, during or after your visit.
This is private - period.
The following is outdated and has only a remote
chance of being revived and passed, what with a Republican administration
and Congress now in control (it couldn't even be effected with President
Clinton and a Republican Congress), but it's nice to dream about. It would
settle a lot of health questions about tampons and other menstrual products.
Help Wanted: This Museum Needs a
Public Official For Its Board of Directors
Your MUM is doing the paper work necessary to become eligible to receive
support from foundations as a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation. To achieve
this status, it helps to have a American public official - an elected or
appointed official of the government, federal, state or local - on its board of directors.
What public official out there
will support a museum for the worldwide culture of
women's health and menstruation?
Eventually I would also like to entice people experienced in the law,
finances and fund raising to the board.
Do You Have Irregular Menses?
If so, you may have polycystic ovary syndrome
[and here's a support association for it].
Jane Newman, Clinical Research Coordinator at Brigham
and Women's Hospital, Harvard University School of Medicine, asked
me to tell you that
Irregular menses identify women at high risk for polycystic ovary syndrome
(PCOS), which exists in 6-10% of women of
reproductive age. PCOS is a major cause of infertility
and is linked to diabetes.
Learn more about current
research on PCOS at Brigham and Women's
Hospital, the University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania State University
- or contact Jane Newman.
If you have fewer than six
periods a year, you may be eligible to participate
in the study!
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