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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Tampax menstrual tampon bulletins, about early 1950s, U.S.A., (page 1) explaining safety, construction, & usage
Tampax, the first tampon with an applicator (early 1930s; read a short history), and the first really successful
tampon, had trouble getting both the public and doctors to accept it. Issues
such as whether virgins could use it and if the tampon could disappear,
never to be seen again (but, um, uh, detected odor-wise), of course concerned
the public. Among other things, Tampax educators mann-, er, womanned? a
booth at the 1939 World's Fair. And the company had to contend with the
Catholic Church, which objected to unmarried women, especially girls, putting
tampons and other things into forbidden places.
Part of that educational effort you see below and on the following pages.
You'll read mentions of the problems Tampax had; many of their observations
apply today. Tampax had to fight much prejudice and menstrual myth. The
pages, apparently 8.5" x 11", were in a note book. I've trimmed
the files to eliminate the wide margins. The two images below are both on
the first page.
A Dutchman - the faithful contributor of many items recently - kindly
sent these scans.
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