Tamponian & other oddities & comedies:
LOX theatrical tampons
Never in America: Ad with talking tampons compared with penises
Tampons "For the Woman of Charm"
Origami tampons from Japan
Anne, named for Anne Frank of diary fame
Anna menstrual sponge: the inventor's wife's name was on each user's lips, according to her grandson.
Vulvar deodorant system
Menu with tampons


See also Ads for Teens

Booklets menstrual hygiene companies made for girls, women and teachers - patent medicine - a list of books and articles about menstruation
Many more PADS, BOOKLETS - See TAMPONS, MENSTRUAL BELTS, CUPS, SPONGES, UNDERPANTS
HOMEPAGE
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Some MUM site links:
HOMEPAGE |
MUM address & What does MUM mean? |
Email the museum |
Privacy on this site |
Who runs this museum?? |
Amazing women! |
Art of menstruation (and awesome ancient art of menstruation) |
Artists (non-menstrual) |
Asbestos |
Belts |
Bidets |
Birth control and religion |
Birth control drugs, old |
Birth control douche & sponges |
Founder bio |
Bly, Nellie |
MUM board |
Books: menstruation & menopause (& reviews) |
Cats |
Company booklets for girls (mostly) directory |
Contraception and religion |
Contraceptive drugs, old |
Contraceptive douche & sponges |
Costumes |
Menstrual cups |
Cup usage |
Dispensers |
Douches, pain, sprays |
Essay directory |
Examination, gynecological (pelvic) (short history) |
Extraction |
Facts-of-life booklets for girls |
Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads |
FAQ |
Feminine napkin, towel, pad directory |
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, towel, napkin directory |
Patent medicine |
Poetry directory |
Products, some current |
Puberty booklets for girls and parents|
Religion |
Religión y menstruación |
Your remedies for menstrual discomfort |
Menstrual products safety |
Sanitary napkin, towel, pad directory |
Seguridad de productos para la menstruación |
Science |
Shame |
Slapping, menstrual |
Sponges |
Synchrony |
Tampon directory |
Early tampons |
Teen ads directory |
Tour of the former museum (video) |
Towel, pad, sanitary napkin directory |
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 |
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.


The Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health

Primella tampons (Switzerland?, 1969)

Introduction.
Another Swiss tampon.
Tamponian & other oddities & comedies:
LOX theatrical tampons
Never in America: Ad with talking tampons compared with penises
Tampons "For the Woman of Charm"
Origami tampons from Japan
Anne, Japanese 'pon named for Anne Frank of diary fame
Anna menstrual sponge: the inventor's wife's name was on each user's lips, according to her grandson.
Vulvar deodorant system
Menu with tampons

I thank Tambrands, the former maker of Tampax, for donating the box from its archives!

Below: The Primella wrapper lacks text.
Below: Let's compare the Primella with a Tampax from a few months later, March 7, 1970,
that I took from the box right below (Tambrands donated it to this museum). Someone, probably a Tampax quality inspector,
wrote on the box's cellophane wrapper.
Below: The Primella size is almost identical to the sanpax except for the string: the cotton plug measures about 2.25 x 0.5" (about 5.7 x 1.3 cm) and the string about 4" (about 10 cm) long. The inner (upper here) tube measures about 2.85 x 0.5" (about 7.3 cm x 1.3 cm), the outer about 2.75 x 5.1" (about 7 x 1.31 cm). You can see it lacks the holes that make ridges that hold the Tampax tampon tubes in place until a finger pushes the the end.
 
Below: Some differences between the Tampax and Primella that further demonstrate that I was WRONG
to think they were identical. The blue arrows point to the straight lip of Primella and the inward-turned
Tampax that gently grips the inner tube. The red arrows show how differently the tubes are constructed.
The yellow shows another Tampax exclusive to steady the tubes.
End | Box - instructions - tampon compared with contemporary Tampax
Tamponian, other oddities & comedies: LOX theatrical tampons - Never in America: Ad with talking tampons compared with penises - Tampons "For the Woman of Charm" - Origami tampons from Japan - Anne, Japanese 'pon named for Anne Frank of diary fame - Anna menstrual sponge: the inventor's wife's name was on each user's lips, according to her grandson - Vulvar deodorant system - Menu with tampons
Many more
BOOKLETS - See TAMPONS, MENSTRUAL BELTS, PADS, CUPS, SPONGES, UNDERPANTS

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