See more Tampax items: American
ad from August 1965 - nudity in an ad: May 1992 (United Kingdom) - a sign
advertising Tampax during World War II - the original patent
- an instruction sheet from the 1930s
See a Modess True or False? ad in The American
Girl magazine, January 1947, and actress Carol Lynley
in "How Shall I Tell My Daughter" booklet ad (1955) - Modess . . . . because ads (many dates).
 
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"Are they hard to put in?" (Tampax
menstrual tampon ad, U.S.A., 1989)
Just as with its "Are you sure I'll still be a virgin?" ad
(here), part of the same series, Tampax talks
about a concern potential consumers had right from the beginning of the
commercial menstrual tampon, in the early 1930s (see an early
Tampax and see an early report addressing
these concerns). menstrual pads were easy to use once you got the hang of
attaching the belt (see some here) or pressing the
adhesive pad into the panties or attaching it somehow (here).
But tampons - well, it was hard to see where they went even if you knew
enough anatomy.
See more letter testimonials, from the defunct tampon Pursettes,
from the patent medicine Cardui, and from Olympic
gymnast Cathy Rigby, for Stayfree sanitary napkins.
A visitor to the museum in my house (take a tour)
said the closest emotionally she ever was to her mother was when the latter
put her first tampon into her after she saw her daughter struggling on her
bed.
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See more Tampax items: American ad from
August 1965 - nudity in an ad: May
1992 (United Kingdom) - a sign advertising
Tampax during World War II - the original patent
- an instruction sheet from the 1930s
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