Read a Personal Products booklet for older girls from about this time,
The Periodic Cycle (1938). See similar
booklets on this site.
Booklets menstrual hygiene companies made
for girls, women and teachers - patent medicine
- a list of books and articles about menstruation
- videos
See a Kotex ad advertising a Marjorie May
booklet.
See many more similar booklets.
See ads for menarche-education booklets:
Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1932),
Tampax tampons (1970, with Susan Dey), Personal
Products (1955, with Carol Lynley), and German o.b.
tampons (lower ad, 1981)
And read Lynn Peril's series about these
and similar booklets!
Read the full text of the 1935 Canadian edition
of Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, probably identical to the American edition.
More ads for teens (see also introductory
page for teenage advertising): Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins and Quest napkin powder, 1948, U.S.A.),
Are you in the know? (Kotex
napkins and belts, 1949, U.S.A.)Are you in
the know? (Kotex napkins, 1953, U.S.A.),
Are you in the know? (Kotex
napkins and belts, 1964, U.S.A.), Freedom
(1990, Germany), Kotex (1992, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Saba (1975, Denmark)
See early tampons and a list of tampon on this site - at least the ones I've cataloged.
 
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Sex Facts for Women [puberty & menstruation],
(cover),
by Richard J. Lambert, Ph.G. ["graduate pharmacist," according
to an e-mailer], M.D. (booklet, 1936, Padell Book Company, 830 Broadway,
New York [U.S.A.])
This is a strange little booklet of 32 pages; the introduction explains
that it is a condensation of the 256-page "Sex and Marriage,"
by the "eminent" Dr. R. J. Lambert.
The information within seems standard for the time, but there is something
sleazy about the whole pamphlet, starting with
the cover, which looks right out of a 'Thirties detective novel. The hat,
beard and raised fountain pen grab your attention, don't they?
Page two tells us that it's part of a series of "handbooks,"
the others being Fortune Telling by Cards,
Facts About Nudism, Sex
Facts for Men, 84 Card Tricks, and How to Make Love. Handbooks for whom? It reminds me of late
nights in an Army barracks.
The sections of the booklet are "Anatomy and Physiology of the
Female Generative Organs"; Puberty and Menstruation," from which
I reproduce the following pages here; "Physiology of Reproduction";
and "Pregnancy."
SarahAnne Hazlewood kindly donated the booklet to this museum.
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