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Updated 6 December; next scheduled
update 1 March 2018, but
sometimes updated throughout the
"Time dos fly too fast"
Lady Elizabeth Delaval
in her poem "Upon the Singing of
a Lark" in Dr
Sara Read's "Menstruation
and the Female Body in Early
Modern England," a fount of
This web site is "odd,
funny and well researched" - The New
York Times
This museum collection is "[U]nrivaled. .
. . [T]he best material culture
collection on menstruation in
the world."
- Menstruation: A
Cultural History
(Howie, Shail, eds.) This museum,
MUM, has thousands of
advertisements and products
concerning menstruation from
around the world.
This museum Web site is "a treasure trove
of information." -
Kotex, Kleenex, Huggies:
Kimberly-Clark and the Consumer
Revolution in American Business,
by Thomas Heinrich and Bob
Batchelor.
Listen (unfortuntely
the link is dead) to MUM
director Harry Finley
carry on about men and
menstruation, the MUM museum in
his basement, toxic shock, etc.,
on the Keeper menstrual cup site.
No, they didn't pay me.
MUM (MUseum
of Menstruation):
with original spelling, to the
Museum of Menstruation, from
"Shocked, by women," mailed from
Cheyenne, Wyoming, U.S.A.
how Surg. Gen. Koop changed the
country! . . . Carry on!"
Judge Giles S. Rich (retired),
United States Court of Appeals for
the Federal Circuit, Washington,
D. C. (from a letter
and other media
about this museum.
listeners' comments (more) from my
half-hour interview with Howard Stern (here):
° "Get a life, creep."
° "[I] am
quite familiar with the
obstacles to a frank and
intelligent discussion of
menstruation." (Nancy
Freedman, author of Everything You
Must Know About Tampons, 1981)
just listening to your interview
with Howard Stern. You handled
yourself very well with him. He
lambastes just about anyone with
a peculiar interest, but you had
him very much in check. I was
declares this site
"adult,"not something a family
could look at together and
withdraws the ads it had placed
here for 8 years
(December 2011). I
need permission slips from
Google employees' mothers
before they peek at this site. NO
FAKE SIGNATURES OR I'LL SEND
YOU TO THE PRINCIPAL'S
jock itch products, buddy."
In a commentary about the museum
and its creator in the defunct Sassy,
an American magazine for teenage
"Terrifically
diverse" -
Independent on Sunday
(London, England)
fabulous that somebody out there
is willing to . . . pull back
the curtain." Mona
Miller, national media relations
director of the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America,
discussing the museum in The Prince
George's Journal,
Maryland, U.S.A.
the best on the Internet"
- Britannica.com&
"Ecco perché
Harry Finley ne sa più della tua
Mamma" - Marie Claire
magazine (Italian
of a website is a virtual
repository for everything you
wanted to know about women's
periods." - New Scientist magazine
(United Kingdom)
interesting than you might
think. . . . lively." The V Book: A
Doctor's Guide to Complete
Vulvovaginal Health, by
Elizabeth G. Stewart, M.D., of
Harvard medical school and Brigham
and Women's Hospital, Boston.
The New York Times:
This site is "odd,
funny and well researched"
Giles S. Rich:
how Surg. Gen. Koop
changed the country!
Carry on!"
official of the
Society for
Menstrual Cycle
brave man."
visitor looking at
the museum archives:
"You will be
sacrificed."
the latest
menstruation
news, with the
history of
products &
the original
Menstruation,
a cartoon visit,
the museum's future, and
it and this
&.............................................................................................................................
grabs Trump by the --!
the Danish cartoon at
the bottom of the page.
...........................................................................
contributions to Would
menstruating if you
......................................
American contribution to
..................................................................
sipped gin from a
menstrual cup
flying with
his wife on a Chinese
airline in the 1940s. I
wonder if it was hers. She
- Martha Gellhorn - recounted
this in her book Travels
with Myself and Another.
The only American cup at
the time I know of is that
Chalmers, introduced
around 1937. Maybe the
flight attendant offered a
Chinese one if there was
such a thing.
story to break
the ice with that
stranger you've always
been interested in!
..........................
"Mortified Tampax
CEO Bursts Into
Tears And Runs Out
Of Boardroom After
Tampon Falls Out
Of Briefcase"
Look at the similar ad
for the defunct
Pursettes tampon
years ago.
.................................
Dickinson warns Hugh
"Playmates
at threescore and
Are such a scarcity–"
So ends the
poet's 1882 near-death
masterpiece
are laid away in
Book[let]s.
............................................
can you connect
Emily Dickinson
surprised?! When
browsing Thomas
&edition of
her poems I found
in She went as
quiet as the Dew
at the end of the
I imagined a
poetry-loving
marketer at the
hygiene company
writing this, a
college English
major forced to
serve Mammon
instead of Art and
wanting to
high culture into low
the poet).
..........................................
A Girl Gets
Her Period And Is Banished
To The Shed:
National Public Radio
this MUM site says
about menstrual
................................
'menstruation hut' ritual
life of teenage girl"
this MUM site says about
menstrual huts.
...........
This museum
gets closer to going
Equity in New
York City offered to
permanently house and
display this museum's
collection. The organization,
"a law and policy institute
dedicated to advancing
menstrual access, equity and
safety in the U.S.," is fund
raising for its headquarters
and the museum.
And a recent
show at the Parsons
School of Design
in New York City
incorporated three items
from MUM for a show on
industrial design aimed at
Europeans in
past decades have seen shows
of menstrual history
and Germany (items from
exhibition catalog in Frankfurt and Lorsch).
about the future
of the museum. See the first
public exhibit of this
..................................
I'm taking a
break from
regularly updating this Web
aside from an item now and
then. Many projects call me!
See you on March 1, 2018.
...................................
Mexico, red underwear
conferring "special
powers" during periods (from
a site visitor):
"I came across this article
recently Red underwear in
Mexico during menstruation:
and thought I would mention
what I was told (around
2008) by a woman in her 30’s
who came from a rural area
of Mexico. She said the
women in her village wore
red underwear when they were
menstruating. She was taught
that the red underwear had
'special& powers' to
protect them during these
times. I asked if she, too,
believed in their powers.
Her answer was yes. She said
she still wears red
underwear during
menstruation for this
...................
Mr. Trump?
And mansplaining the
Yes, it happens.
....................................
If I ever get
this museum in the public
again, you'll be able to sit
inside a menstrual hut.
In the meantime, read the
New York Times's
and look at this museum's menstrual
which has a much earlier
article about a menstrual
also in Nepal.
................................
See an X-rated
tampon ad!!
OK, it's not
hard to imagine in
..................................................
Help students
turn water
hyacinths into
menstrual pads
We are a group of
university students from Bangladesh,
wanting to revolutionize
society as it is using the
idea of producing
biodegradable sanitary
pads made out of water
hyacinth. We are currently
participating in a
business competition,
whereby we are required to
help restore refugee
rights and provide them
with employment/a stable
source of income. We want
to use this opportunity to
produce these water
hyacinth pads, thus providing
the refugees
with essential rights to
sanitation and hygiene
(along with proper
public health education)
and also providing them
with a source
of income by
employing them in the
extraction, production,
and logistics services,
while also helping the
environment (water
hyacinth on its own is
an invasive species
which clogs water
bodies, kills marine
life and emits
greenhouse gases, but
when processed into our
good it becomes a
biodegradable
necessity). In
order to implement our
plan and actually take our
project further, we need
your help and advice. If
you are able and
willing to help,
please reply as soon
as possible at
mashiyat.rahman (at)
You can also contact me
Your cooperation in this
matter will be highly
appreciated. We look
forward to hearing from
Warm regards,
Mashiyat Rahman
University,
Bangladesh
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Winging it in
Germany for the first
..............................................................
were tampons and pads in 1942?
...............................................................
did the Japanese
government
allow women to skip
were menstruating?
A course paper
Mizuno, graded
eminent feminist
philosopher
Dr. Sandra Lee
at age 81.
I adapted a
design on a
Japanese lacquer
writing box to
create the
The box, at
the Chong-Moon
Lee Center for
Asian Art And
is from about
................................................................
How did Japanese
society regard
menstruation throughout
its history?
....................................................
"What you did
for us, all women on the
planet, is really,
really wonderful! I send
you thousands of hugs,
Mail from an Italian woman
.................................................................................
"Take my hand, I'm
a stranger in paradise
Um, actually,
mademoiselle just
fell skating
a French Freedom
menstrual pad in the
..............................................................
Pads? Tampons?
Germany, 1991
...........................................................
CREMATION?
And a new sanitary towel,
In, um, 1880?
.............................................
A bow tie just
Ad for Kotex
Freedom, France,
...............................................
See this museum's
first way of reaching a
wide audience:
Its newsletter
3 issues, mid 1990s
...........................................................................
I Learned from
the Museum of
Menstruation,

an Announcement
Harry Finley,
creator and
curator of this
museum

The woman on the
phone called to make an
appointment to visit the
Along with her
nine-year-old daughter, she
hoped to bring two of her
daughter's friends staying
with the family.
.............................................................................
Virginity and
..............................................................
visitor, and a chance
reading of a Danish
newspaper provided
think about.
..............................................................
Mimosept promotes new
way of adhering
its pads into panties
Ad, Germany, 1970s
...............................................................
woman writes about periods
and her attitude toward stopping
...............................................................
A restaurant
Mm, no, a Dutch
ad for Kotex, 2000!!
...............................................................
Kathy & Mo's
Menstrual Mirth
by Marisa Guillardo
...............................................................
"[I]n Kenya, one
in ten of the 15 year
old girls told us that
they had engaged
in sex in order to get
money to buy pads.
These girls have no
money, no power."
Guardian story, which
also discusses menstrual
cups and the pitfalls of
ignorance:
"A study by the Canadian
organisation in Nairobi
revealed that 80% of girls
had no idea what their
period was before they
started....& 'I ...
think that women are
tired of feeling
ashamed of their
periods and are
speaking out more
often.' ”
...............................................................
mirrors, on ...
, October 1923
...............................................................
A contribution to
Would you stop
menstruating if you
................................................................
for Carefree tampons
..............................................................
and stormy night?
Well, not really.
Dreams, though.
Dr. Pierce's early 20th
...............................................................
just-published Washington
Post article about
this museum.
A good job! But
contrary to what the
article suggests my
intention is to either
again create a museum
or find a suitable
place for the
archives. Preferably
create another
museum. Read
See the original
...............................................................
"[W]hat I would
LOVE is to get a week off
every month, from cooking,
cleaning, and working, b/c I
am 'unclean.'"
A contribution to Would
you stop menstruating if
you could?
.............................................................
Experiencing
difficulties,
technically difficult,
Muffy is sick
..............................................................
ad for Always
Slender for Teens,
...............................................................
Are you confused?
This picture proves
, March 2016,
Netherlands
..........................................
Can you get a blood
sample without
sticking your skin?
You know the answer: of
Read the story
about using future tampons
to diagnose
endometriosis, for just
one example. (This is
new: the story
missed at least one
early example of
using tampons to
suspicious
cells: the Draghi
that Tampax
patented in 1959
to find cervical
cancer.) The
article mentions Lillian
Gilbreth and her
report that asked
WOMEN what they wanted
in menstrual containment
products. Men ruled the
in menstrual products for
look at the Tampax
board of directors
in 1949 and at the Kotex
board in 1947.
And in general did men
bash women involved
advertising industry?
Is Donald Trump
interesting?
..............................................................
You can get FREE
reproductions of
elegant Modess ads!
Um, er, COULD get free
Four Modess in-store
cards offering
these reproductions,
....................................................
While putting the
museum archive in order I
found this exchange
between Tamara Slayton and
myself (Harry Finley) 2
years before this
museum existed.
...........................................
New York Times article
about the cost of
menstrual products
and the cost
of silence
about menstruation.
................................................
Dr. Robert Maytá?
submits a less
use for Wampole's
Vaginal Cones with picric
................................................
&New York Times says,
the Tampon Tax."
................................................
Additions to menstrual
..............................................................................
A new view on
...............................................................................
The Art of
Menstruation:
Australian
artist Olivia Inwood
............................................................
A German company refits
its panty pad.
................................................................
Nana - the
name of a French menstrual
pad - can mean loose
Funny, the German Camelia
pad is tied to a flower worn by a prostitute.
And we wonder why
Europeans make fun of
Americans for their
.................................................................................................
If you boogie,
do it till dawn with
...................................................................
Tampax uses 2
pages to convince British
Tampax, 1990
..................................................................
But what do you
think about the plastic
applicator?
Ad for the Compak
tampon, from Tampax, 1990
.................................................................
Tampax from the beginning?
says a German girl.
..............................................................
ad with um, er, OK
OK, she's naked,
France, 1991
...............................................................
Friend Larry W.
Bryant has written
and posted a petition
for your signature to
request Congress to
investigate the
menstrual products
industry for possible
contamination of its
products at
http://www.petition2congress.com/18901/investigate-menstrual-products-industrys-infusion-probable-carcin
Larry worked with me at
the Pentagon decades ago,
where he listened to my
ideas for the physical
museum. He's the godfather
of this site:
in 1996 he suggested I
create it. He's boosted
since the beginning.
............................................................
On Martin Luther's
birthday, consider this
(English translation
Ja, det er
[Luther's] Storhed, at
han var bange. En
nervel?s raa B?rste,
Landsknaegstjael, en
Fanatiker med Galskab
?jene, sagtens
traede op imod Kejser og
Pave, men det er
Stordaad af en
Mand, der skaelver af
(From "Ved
Reformationsjubilaeet,"
(1936) in Himmel og
Jord - Heaven and Earth
- writings by Kaj
Munk, a Danish pastor,
writer, and playwright
opposed to the Nazi
occupation of Denmark
and murdered and dumped in
a ditch in 1944.)
My translation:
that's Luther's
greatness, that he was
afraid. A nerveless
crude fellow, a
wild country bumpkin,
a fanatic crazy in his
eyes, can easily rise
up against emperor and
pope, but it's a great
thing for a man
who shakes with
...........................................................
be embarrassed?
menstrual pad ad,
and a clothing ad, both
German, 1982, showing the
same model.
..........................................................
Recent MUM
appearances in media
(more media):
The Sean Moncrieff Show
(Newstalk, radio
interview, Dublin,
Ireland, October 2, 2015)
Will Be Blood: The
backlash to the man
who founded the
Menstruation raises
the question: Is
there a right way
for men to talk
about periods?"
(The Atlantic online,
Oct., 2015))
"How One Man Ran the World's Only Menstruation Museum
Basement."
Media, September 28,
.........................................................
Do you think a deck
of cards would
stores to sell Modess
menstrual pads?
, possibly
..........................................................
Does menstruation
make her female?
was twelve years old, my step
mother did brujería [Spanish for
witchcraft] on me. She
took my underwear to a black
magic witch doctor, who then
buried it in a cemetery. She put
a ghost on me to make me go
insane." MORE (October
2015 contribution).
..............................................................
Barbie’ can now wear
menstrual pads"
about a menstrual pad kit
from the Washington Post.
and tampons (and a
douche apparatus!)
made for a doll
And see a doll,
washable pads (but no
tampons) and other
material made to
teach girls in rural
India about
menstruation.
.............................................................
Stewardesses on the
Magic Carpet
Kotex, 1959
..............................................................
"Menstruation
Innovation: Lessons
from India"
By Jennifer
Weiss-Wolf,&
September 1, 2015
New York Times
More from and about India
...................................................................
What's this?
Without a doubt, it
would be easier to
figure out with more
But this is a Kotex
without-a-shadow-of-a-doubt
....................................................................
Eyes away from
douche ad, 1932
...................................................
What a mysterious
mess, huh?
will clarify it!
...................................................
makes poor girls' lives
kit that allows
girls to wash, dry and
carry reusable sanitary
More on reusable
...................................................
Kotex ad, 2000
...................................................
Kotex ad, 1950.
.....................................................
Ever wonder what
the average person ate or
how she got their clothing
in an important era of
English - and world -
history? And,
of course, what about
menstruation and medicine?
(There's a hint that a
special group of women
used tampons, just as stage
performers [and here] did
before commercial
Read's book supplies
in an easy, matter-of-fact
way - that is,
non-academic way - the
countless nuts
and bolts of these women's
lives, often telling what
came even earlier.
And of some men's lives,
Amazon sells only a
Kindle edition ($10.99)
Dr Read sent me a
hardbound copy with a
cover price of
$39.95 (or ?19.99).
Google advertises an
ebook for $9.99.
...................................................................
Dear Harry,
I wondered if you might
be interested in putting
a link to a song
I created 10 months ago,
on your Museum of
Menstruation website?
It's called 'Let
it flow' and
is a menstrual positive
version of Disney's 'Let
it go' from the very
popular Frozen film.
It's not my finest
singing ever, but I
believe the lyrics are
strong and the video
powerful. It's proved to
be quite popular on
YouTube with almost
3,500 views. You can
read the lyrics
here&http://redwisdom.co.uk/let-it-flow/
Best wishes,
Karin&www.redwisdom.co.uk
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Two more pad disposal
bags, from Arizona
..........................................................
A contribution to
..........................................................
A Dutch girl
chooses o.b tampons,
probably the first native
European 'pon.
...........................................................
magazine goes international
The magazine's Paula wrote me,
"In Holland they wondered why every
possible topic has its own magazine,
except the one and only thing that
all women have in common. Exactly:
menstruation. The result is Period!
A feel-good
magazine for menstrual off-days
with new posts almost daily.
A year after the launch of the Dutch
online magazine there’s an international
edition as well:
Read its .
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alienated?
............................................................
"Bloody Hell: Does
Religion Punish Women for
Menstruating?"
Read the article
...........................................................
So infinitely sadder,
ad revisited, 1927.
......................................................
A contribution
...............................................................
Is she feminine?
Ad for Fems
"feminine napkin,"
............................................................
looking at the stars?
She sees Kotex
ad, June, 1929
............................................................
THINX about
See/buy the pad-in-panty
.............................................................
Fashion? Menstrual
And a glove by the
.............................................................
A woman replies
to a researcher's
question (11 items
below) about free
"I do know this via
a close Japanese friend.
She told me that in the
days when women wore
kimono they did not wear
underwear. So what did
they do? They held it in
until they went to the
toilet and then let the
blood out. She said it can
be learned with practice."
But look at ads for Japanese menstrual clothing
in the late 19th to
20th centuries when
women wore kimonos.
............................................................
Modes(s)t about this
Take a relook at a Modess
from 1928.
..............................................................
you have a flair for
from Belgium,
around 2000
........................................................
"This Is My Brain
"Most of my
interpersonal conflicts
happen just before my
period — problems that
would arise eventually
anyway, but impaired by
PMS, I’m intolerant. I’m
impossible. I pick fights.
I jump to damaging
conclusions. Maybe that’s
the worst of me. Or maybe
that’s me. Roseanne Barr
once noted, 'Women
complain about PMS, but I
think of it as the only
time of the month when I
can be myself.' ”
Read the New
York Times article by
Diana Spechler
...............................................................
Can you connect a traffic
jam to menstruation?
Always does in this 1998
..........................................................
I wonder what those
women in Nepal who
use a menstrual
hut do when an
earthquake
destroys it, don't you?
............................................................
disappearing item
earns a bare ad.
Procter & Gamble sells
2001, in a magazine that
disappears soon after
the first World Trade
Center crumbles.
..............................................................
the Cycle:
A Menstrual Cycle
& Reproductive
Justice Art Show
(more art)
.............................................................
A journalist
interviewed me a couple
weeks ago.
It dawned on that I had
photos of the original
museum stashed
away so I let her pick 3
Now I'm going to show
you some of the others.
And with an appeal to
YOU to start a new
............................................
researcher at the James
Joyce Library,
University College,
Dublin, help another
researcher look for
scholarly or scientific
research on 'free
'instinctual free
flow' or 'le flux
instinctif'?&
(Women have almost
certainly menstruated
into their clothing or
otherwise freely from
the beginning. And
do so today.)
He could also mean a
woman's ability to retain
her flow until she finds a
toilet or other place to
release it.
Can you help or make suggestions?
.......................................................
instinctif?
A stylish French woman
adjusts her shoe, or
something, in an ad
for Tampax, November
........................................................
Two American
additions to Words
and expressions for
menstruation from around
the world:
You're not a dad
and Grandma's here
.....................................
Australian help for
eternal pain, 2 of 3
ingredients not revealed:
..................................................
See the creator of
this museum
(bottom of this
...............................................
She contributes to
............................................................
The mirror doesn't
show the whole story.
...........................................................
One of the
creators of the birth
control pill dies at 91
Carl Djerassi, a
penniless (after a New
York cabdriver cheated him
and his mother out of
their last $20) Jewish
immigrant to America,
Eleanor Roosevelt for
she got him a
college scholarship.
was a little help that
made a big difference,"
The New York Times
about his many
accomplishments.
See an early
example of that pill
(1964) in this museum.
.....................................................
A friend sent a
link to an audio
and visual tour
the Museum of
Menstruation
my house so many years
My computer sound doesn't
work so I can't pass on
how articulate (and
informative) I was. I hope
.....................................................
A contribution to Words
and expressions for
menstruation:
U.S.A.: (an
amplification to) Earning
your red wings
....................................................
"Sugary drinks
linked to earlier onset of
menstruation"
Read the story
from Oxford University Press at
ScienceDaily.
....................................................
kidding, Kotex! See
, June, 1934
.........................................................
Mighty Kotex
marches across America!
from 1923.
...............................................
Melissa Terras sends
this link to the
interesting
day I got my first
in The Guardian.
.......................................................
Menstrual Cups Are Changing
Lives in East Africa"
the story in the
Huffington Post.
21 years ago a writer from
Seventeen magazine attending
opening of this museum
asked me what I thought was
the best menstruation
"removal" technique. I told
.........................................................
vs um, Toilet
, May, 1922
........................................................
A Swiss woman
................................................................
My period just
Kotex to the
rescue, ad, September,
................................................
ad for German
Carefree panty pads
turns out to be not so
with its second page.
...............................................................
&What do you know
about menstruation
and tampons
in ancient Greece?
That's what I thought.
Greatly expand
that knowledge!
..................................................................
"Why didn't the
Great Creator tweak that
whole process a bit so
that nothing is
contribution to Would
you stop menstruating if
you could?
.................................................................
Do these women travel from
ad to ad for different
companies?
You witness them betraying
Kotex for Modess!
......................................................
I see London, I
see France ....
Always pads protect you
know what!
.............................................
The notice of the
1971 annual meeting of
shareholders
where it's proposed to
change the name to
Tassaway, Inc., just
in time for the
cup company to fail!
......................................................
The book is a torrent
of information,
unique, about
menstrual activism.
The author inscribed the
copy she sent me, in part,
"For Harry, .... a rebel,
& an inspiration to us
THANK YOU!"
Dr. Bobel is the incoming
president of the
for Menstrual Cycle
............................................................
What, you think
there's a matriarchal
society in Europe?
NO WAY! WAY!
the story and see great
pictures on the
news site Le Monde.
..........................................
another annual
............................................
Lost but now
A friend send me the link
to the Roadside
about this museum
when it was open in my
See the video and
.........................................................
Like, this is a
really short letter, isn't
Mrs. Chalmers did
fill in the center
to goad women into
buying her menstrual
And on pink paper!
..............................................................
A menstrual cup
company issues an
...........................................................
Addition to Words
and expressions for
menstruation:
U.S.A.: #bloodcannon
...........................................................
"Jenkins! Brandy
Alexander for Mrs.
Whitney-Morgan!
And the usual for me - Kotex!"
for Kotex pads, 1927
.......................................................................
five years down the
Ad for Modess
pads, 1938.
...........................................................................
the mystery of
menstruation!
What can this be?
...............................................................................
"90-Year-Old Sex
Columnist Shatters Taboos
Read the New
York Times article
and see some of India's
problems with
menstruation.
.....................................................................................
uitweg reads
the Dutch menstrual pad
But is you-know-what
exiting under her?
pad ad, The
Netherlands, 1997
...............................................................
The Duchess in
the stall:
Judith Thurman writes of
the brilliant fashion
photographer Cecil
and the Modess
.... because (bottom of
of mid-20th century
in The New Yorker, 5
Read about and
see pictures
Metropolitan
exhibit of
.............................................
What was at The
World's Busiest Corner
in the 1920s?
No, no, it looks like a tombstone
for the traffic dead
but isn't.
It was a Kotex display!
Well, next to it.
See a kind of proof.
................................................................
Are you a smart,
beautiful woman?
Bright, full of
Then you mustn't have a
care in the world!
Um, right.
Anyway, Venus pads are -
er, were - for
..........................................................
appreciate Kotex!
At least that's what
this 1920s
handwritten text
a Kotex ad says.
..............................................
Oh, the irony!
But stains
on the seat
of her pants would
have been worse.
Libresse Invisible ad,
.....................................................................
This Dutch girl always
carries one with
Guess! It has wings
and - no, not her
for yourself!
...........................................................
Gosh, will you see the
........................................................................
Moon Party
this funny ad.
.............................................................
Will you get depressed
after childbirth?
great article in
the New York Times.
................................................................
Are you a Doubting
Or any kind of lady? Or a
lady at all?
Modess pads absorbed those
...........................................................
to cheat your
The government squeezes
another quack, in 1930.
A package insert for
and the same stuff with
With the FDA
................................................................
Taking a vacation?
Pack your nice shoes and,
of course, Kotex,
but don't swim
with one on!
.....................................................................
Guys, want to
"experience"
menstruation?
No? Darn it,
I was hoping you would say
Go ahead, experience
it (at second, third or
fourth hand) with the
Menstruation
President elect of
the Society for Menstrual
Cycle Research
Dr. Christina Bobel, chair
of women's and gender
at the University of
Massachusetts, Boston,
sent me the link to
her debate
at New York's Museum of
Modern Art about whether
such empathy (even with
this machine) is possible.
I left my 1.5 cent's worth
of comment on that site.
She also reminds us that
Hygiene Day is right
around the corner (28 May).
Chitrakar of
having to use
a menstrual
start here. See also .)
And Representative Carolyn
Maloney reintroduces her
effort to push Congress to
investigate
toxic shock syndrome
and the safety of
menstrual products
Robin Danielson Act.
Read David Linton's discussion.
............................................................................
Part of the 99%??
for Kotex, 1939
..................................................................
you think it's cool that
a happy little man
would give you a
"thumbs up" for
using his disposal bag
correctly?
standing right next
In the stall!!!
And winking!!!
from the Director of
the Centre for Digital
Humanities at University
College London,
Professor Melissa Terras.
...................................................................
Would you pole
vault for a flexible
Modess tampon?
Actually, she's grabbing
an inflexible fountain pen,
of all things.
You don't know
what a fountain pen
is?!! OMG!!!
November, 1956!!!
.........................................................
she stop menstruating
if she could? She
sure would!!!
................................................................................
She writes that she's allergic
to the latex in a
menstrual cup -
and gives her solution.
.........................................................
I'll buy Camelia!"
no, she's advising
her to buy Camelia in
from probably the late
1940s or 1950s.
........................................................................
Great advances
for womankind!!!
American Kotex ad
showing the company's
offerings.
..............................................................
lost and found:
Kotex wanted to put
its pad dispenser where
Tampax employees could
........................................................
K - I N T O - M Y - E
GET -& YOUR -
HAND - AWAY - FROM -
THAT - TAMPAX!
Ad for Vania
Ultra menstrual pads
with sphagnum moss,
1994, France
..........................................................
ceintures, Ni
épingles, Ni odeur"
That's the French
Tampax slogan you'll see
in this ad
from the 1960s or 70s
translating the American
belts, No pins, No
But bébé, mais
.....................................................................
think she can???
reassuring
potential users, May 1989
......................................................
Kuck's poem
I'm flattered!!
..................................................................................
14-year-old Uttara
Saud sits in a menstrual
during her period,
See the great
series of photos by
Navesh Chitrakar
(start here)
in the Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung,
one of Germany's best
newspapers.
translated the 19
photo captions into
English here.
Are you kidding??? White
...............................................................
A contribution to
her colors
with a scan of the
part of the letter to a
soldier in Europe
that contained it, June
............................................................
dulcet breeze from the
Indian Ocean!!!
O crashing surf!!!
- Oh, wait!!!
That was a tampon
wrapper ripping
A menstrual
pad disposal wrapper
from England ...
and yet another one!
Both from the learned
Director of
University College London
Centre for Digital
Humanities and Professor
of Digital Humanities,
..............................................................................................
Contribution to
...............................................................
An e-mailer
sends this query,
I am transcribing a series of diaries from the 1890s well into the 20th century. In these diaries the women refer to getting their period as the C. R. C. (or CRC or C R
C) called.
I would like to know what C R C stands for.Send your replies to ...................................
Liberté!!!
Sororité!!!
Tampaxité!!!
French dealers' counter
tops in 1938 -
then Tampax disappears the
next year?
Plus 4 1938
French ads
........................................................................................................
they have lubricated
Do cats meow?
, May 1974
..............................................................
Do you believe
Tampax induces a
religious experience!!??
Tampax's "Coming
of Age" folder,
...........................................................................
in the office?
Kotex ads to the
rescue in 1981!
..........................................................................
Do you want to
cause a fuss?
American Apparel sells a
T-shirt "with
a simplistic line
depicting a
masturbating,
menstruating woman with
pubic hair."
The writer misuses the
pejorative word
"simplistic" - he should
have said "simple" - and
talks with the artist,
Petra Collins, about
the shirt. He makes the
point that pictures of
people killing one another
are accepted and common in
America but not
menstruation. But for the
past 15 years you could
see related depictions on
this site. By the
way, during a nationwide
tour related to women's
health in the early 2000s
one venue (I think the
Maryland Science Center in
Baltimore) put walls
around the section
containing the puberty
booklets I lent to
the exhibit.
I know what a fuss
is.& (Photo from
American Apparel)
.......................................................................................
Happy Baby"
Pamphlet from the Lydia
Pinkham drug mill,
I'm glad the baby's still
happy because ....
... imagine my unhappiness
when I discovered on
the Web this exact
booklet and article
I had been working so
diligently
on the past few days - I
had created and posted
five years
ago! I had even
written similar
commentary and added
similar pictures!
I made cosmetic
changes to the
That shows the evil of not
indexing articles right
putting them on MUM. I'm
digging through the server
to find and make available
more forgotten articles.
Do you want to see what
a wet basement can do
to paper? See
this booklet before and
...................................................................
Indexing's not made
easier when a 24-pound
cat called Lunch Box
can (without a
warning meow)
jump&from the table
behind me and
collide with my lap.
OOOOOF, he
..............................................................................
WASPish teens have
you in the know? ad,
July, 1947.
...............................................
I just received my
copy of Dr
Sara Read's latest,
a Christmas present to
...........................................................................
Of course healthy
Swedish women do not have
yellow skin.
But this is marginally
relevant in the discussion
of an ad for
Carefree tampons, 1967.
..........................................................
Carefree in the U.S.
but in Germany?
.........................................................
Egypt in two 1980s
German o.b. ads
............................................................................
expressions
menstruation:
?lwechsel,
Putzwolle, visitor
German student
contributes her teacher's
direct but
indirect and
menstruating if
you could?
......................................................................
Tricks of the
menstrual (and other)
German ad for Carefree
panty pads, 1991
...........................................................................................................................................
"Menstrual Cycle
Influences Concussion
Nov. 13, 2013 —
Researchers found that
women injured during the
two weeks leading up to
their period (the
premenstrual phase) had a
slower recovery and poorer
health one month after
injury compared to women
injured during the two
weeks directly after their
period or women taking
birth control pills." Read
article at
ScienceDaily.
..............................................................................................
Kotex equalizes
something in an ad, 1933.
.......................................................................
Australian Steven
Riley, of Veeda, asked me
to post this about his
"Veeda is a
100% natural feminine
hygiene range of
products. Veeda is the
first widely available
product in the USA in
the natural range that
priced to compete with
all the traditional
brands. 100 % Cotton
tampons are
highly recommended by
Dr. Tierno, expert
microbiologist, to
drastically
reduce the risk of TSS.
Traditional feminine
hygiene products are
commonly made from
synthetics, rayon and
polyester and these
substances are then
placed next to or
inserted into one of the
absorbent places in your
body. There are
Options!! Veeda is 100%
No Synthetics, No
Chemicals, No Dyes and
No Dioxins. The limited
organic options in the
USA are normally 50% to
100% more expensive so
have developed a product
great for your body and
great for your pocket."
................................................................
Your MUM is taking
a menstrual holiday to
photograph
a magnificent
fall at Greenbelt
Lake, near
Washington, D.C.&
What you see are
pads - lily, not
pads - reflecting the sky
in water reflecting the
colors of the trees.
I've taken thousands of
pictures in the past two
The light show ends
Back to mini,
regular and maxi pads next
...........................................................................
I hope you were
right, lady!
15 February
.......................................................
fashionable, deep-pocketed
Modess lady prepares
for her vacation in a 1930
.....................................................................
Apply to the Lady
Manager for
a free sample
of Southall's sanitary
Oops, you're too late but
down the page.&
...................................................................................................
market crashes
but the rich still need
their Kotex!
, July 1930.
& ...................................................................
customs in India:
why things
have improved for her.
.....................................................................
An undated version of the
1966 Tampax booklet
..................................................................
Civil rights reform in
..................................................
in menstrual pads?
1919, U.S.A.
..............................................................
A menstrual cup
that failed:
(Australia), s
.....................................................................................
Network for
premature menopause
menopause and
menstruation links
(see also Art of
Menopause by Coni
.........................................................................
and expressions for
menstruation:
U.S.A.: Four-day
...............................................................
one Puritan man says to
"Um, the custom of
women...."
You get ONE
guess as to what he's
talking about.
Tick, tock, tick, tock ....
RIGHT! Your prize is
the chance to buy - sorry,
I can't afford to give you one
free and anyway it hasn't
appeared yet -
Renaissance scholar Dr Sara
Read's NEW BOOK
Menstruation
and the Female Body in
Early Modern England
(order UK,
But I can offer you
from Dr Read
about how people discussed
menstruation in that era!
......................................................
Speaking of
A comment (from "celia," now
mostly deleted) to a Gail
Collins New York Times column
produces this addition to
Words and expressions
menstruation:
[for tampons]
Isn't it strange that in a
column devoted to Mr.
Wiener's ween-, er, penis,
er, whatever, the paper
should delete this more
useful mention of a
synonym for tampons based
on Prince Charles's wish
that he wanted to be his
mistress's tampon? (See
more humor.)
Curious too that the
length of the noses of
both men resemble the
objects they're associated
with. Just sayin'.
.......................................................
Dunning updates her
........................................................
Advertising Age writes
about the criticism
of Tassette menstrual
cup's huge
billboard in
Times Square, 1961.
..............................................
An Australian contribution
menstruating if you
...................................................................
Can 'Choose' Sex of
Offspring, Study
Read the ScienceDaily
.................................................................................
"Delayed Puberty:
First Estrogen
Receptor Mutation
Found in a Young
the ScienceDaily
..........................................................................................
In a (supposedly
genuine) Russian
Tampax ad a shark
for yourself.
read what your MUM has
say at the BOTTOM
of this page.
thank the Russian
Vladislav Shabalin,
sent the link!
...............................................................................................
ancient pad recruits a
Ad for Camelia,
.............................................................................................
Forgot your
tampon? Find a panda!
An interesting e-mailer
sent the following:
bookworm and a history
lover, and came across
your website in the
past while researching
historical
products/methods used
for menstruation.
This was quite some time
ago, but today I was
researching China, and
relationship to Giant
Pandas of all things,
when I came across a
said women in
ancient China may have
used Panda pelts as a
sort of sanitary
I tried to skim through
the site to see if you'd
mentioned this anywhere,
but so far haven't seen
it mentioned, so I
thought I'd email you
the info I
The statement read:
"The few known uses
include the Szechuan
tribal peoples' use of
urine to melt
accidentally swallowed
needles, and the use of
panda pelts to
control menses as
described in the Qin
Dynasty encyclopedia
And was cited as sourced
from the book The Last
Panda, by George B.
cited as being on page
but as I don't know what
edition they are
referring to, it might
Anyhow, I just thought
it might be of some
interest to you.
.............................................................................................................
"Menopause
May Be an Unintended
Outcome of Men's
Preference for
Younger Mates"
"Over time, human
males have shown a
preference for younger
women in selecting
mates, stacking the
Darwinian deck against
continued fertility in
older women, the
researchers have
found." Read
the article
from McMaster
University in
ScienceNews.
..........................................................................................
director tells menstruating
resources manager
while the sun is up and
refrain from cooking,
worship, and
work-related email,'"according
Wait, The Onion made
everything!
.........................................................................................
White, finally!
Ad for Australian
Kotex belt, 1956
..............................................................
Emmanuel Sala
invites you to an
EXHIBITION
in Arles, France, 1-21
July, noon to 8.
l'atelier cinq, 5
rue Augustin Tardieu
"Our blood collectiveThis is our blood introduces
reflection about blood's confiscation, which is generally made by medicine, power or
"We propose an exhibition of photos, marks on canvas, installations, evoking
alternately, life's mystery, menstruation and death penalty's abolition.
This exhibition is open to the entire public." (in French) (in English) (in French) (in French)(See also the
in MUM and some )..........................................
Surprise inside
for a woman who bought a
of tampons in
Salt lake City, U.S.A.:
the fascinating story
and a short history of
the medical use of
tampons (and cocaine)
to treat women's health
In addition, the famous
Johns Hopkins surgeon
William Halsted became
addicted to cocaine while
testing it on himself as a
local anesthetic. He
substituted morphine to
try to break his addiction
but then became addicted
to it. These drugs
were not then illegal for
general use in America
(late 19th, early 20th
Many know him as the
creator of the radical
mastectomy and the doctor
who introduced rubber
gloves to surgery.
I thank MUM
friend Melissa
Terras, DPhil,
Director, University
College London Centre for
Digital Humanities.
...................................................................
So what's so
funny? Menstruation?
, Germany, 1989
....................................................................................................
A stock-trade
article on the trials
and tribulations but
hopes for the
Tassette menstrual cup,
...........................................................................................
"In a survey of
undergraduate and graduate
students, 17 percent reported
altering their scheduled
bleeding pattern by deviating
from the instructions of
hormonal contraceptives, which
include birth-control pills,
vaginal contraceptive rings and
transdermal contraceptive
"Half of these
women reported that they did so
for convenience or scheduling
purposes. Others cited personal
preference (28.9 percent) or
reducing menstrual symptoms
(16.7 percent) as reasons they
altered menstruation patterns.
"Among the women who delayed or
skipped a scheduled bleeding for
convenience or personal choice,
a comparatively large number --
53 percent -- indicated the
knowledge was obtained from
nonmedical sources, such as a
family member or friend,
researchers said."& Read
the whole article.
.......................................................................................................
More words
and expressions for
menstruation from around
the world:
Manchester
United are playing at
Trooping the colour
Out of practice
Lailah's kicking me
.....................................................................
A contribution to
menstruating if
you could?
...................................................................
Olympic gymnast
Cathy Rigby, late in her
Stayfree maxi-pad career,
....................................................
A bird dipping into
menstrual blood? Blue
menstrual blood?
Ad for Silhouettes,
Germany, 1988.
...........................................................................................
let me see your wallet.
Pe-ru-na conquers America,
then America conquers
Dr. Hartman's
booklet, about 1895
.............................................................
new store, The Period
co-owner writes,
"Our business and our
The Periodical http://theperiodstore.com/blog,
is all about
menstruation in
culture, art,
literature, business,
humor.& We send
women their monthly
supplies along with
gourmet sweets and art
from contemporary
artists that change
every month."
..............................................................
That's a tampon??
You got rhythm?
are, er, were
.........................................................................................
each other,
mothers and daughters!
right before
World War II.
...................................................
Sara Read recommends
Prof. Helen King's
blog post The
History of Menstruation.
...................................................
....................................................
Kotex wraps
individual pads,
..........................................................................
short articles
about 17th
century England
by Dr. Sara Read:
King of Northfleet’s
Menstruating Leg
........................................................
e-mailer comments
on my article
about underwear
.........................................................
edition of a girl's
Kotex booklet,
Um, well, when <font
color="#ff
was new, anyway.
.........................................................................
contribution
from Spain to
Would you stop menstruating if you could?
.........................................
How they used to talk
around contraception!
Booklet Marriage
..............................
Read (4 items right
below) adds two of her
articles to the Bibliography
of menstruation
............................................................................
brand tells the truth
................................................................
A company makes
addition to pad disposal
..................................................................
Addition to
Fred, Sally
......................................
Read the interesting
summary of menstrual
beliefs and practices in
today's India
and efforts to improve them
in the New York Times.
See pictures on MUM (this
site) of the cow
shed mentioned
in the Times story and a doll
used to teach girls about
menstruation as well as how
to make their own cloth
.............................................................................................................................
many women intentionally
menstruate into
their clothing
in 17th-century Britain?
Dr Sara Read of Loughborough
University (U.K.) writes
(pdf in large gray box)
many might have considered
that normal. She kindly sent
me her article, which also
discusses the origins of the
menstrual taboo and other
fascinating cultural
details, including
religious.
And I believe that many -
most? - women of
later eras might have also
A reader responded with
"Hi, Just read your
article about menstruating and
devices used when menstruating
in earlier times. My mother was
from England and i know that
going back to her great
grandmothers they made pads with
cotton or wool in them to absorb
the blood. They attached them to
their underwear with safety pins
or straight pins that they
blunted and bent under. She
showed me a couple that she had
saved when i started. They would
boil them clean."
............................................................................................
contribution
from Russia to
Would you stop menstruating if you could?
......................................................................
Kay and the Mad
Hatter have
in common?
Huh, who's
Betty Kay?
.....................................................................
Menstrual Veil
Penn Museum, of the
University of
Pennsylvania, has
something called a menstrual
veil from the
Naskapi culture in
Labrador, Canada,
collected in 1933.
Its description
on the museum's Web
site says "Hide,
fringed, and painted
with red, blue, and
white pigment. Ties
are sewn on at eitehr
[sic] end. Note on tag
accompanying object,
perhaps typed by
Pennypacker: 'New
style Menstruation
vale [sic]. The vale
is not worn after its
first use. Worn during
her first period.
Collected by F.G.
Speck 1933...' "
...........................................................................
Oh, no, Mom! Modess for
Christmas AGAIN?
probably 1950s, U.S.A.
.....................................................................
Yet MORE additions to
[the] Badger is angry
.....................................................
Additions to
menstruation,
& USA (I had
earlier mistakenly
ascribed these to the
Irma, courses,
inauguration,
(the last from the
contributor's husband)
.....................................
Dr. Nelson Soucasaux,
Brazilian gynecologist
............................................................................
ad, June 1935
..................................................
as big as pillows?
Not Always!
...............................................................................................
battles Kotex!
..........................................................
OLD JOKE about women'
being able to do amazing
during their
IF they use
a certain tampon
or pad is now a NEW
JOKE but still
for the many old
.......................................................................
for the early American
menstrual cup Tassette,
probably early 1950s
......................................................................................
Kotex stuck with
Ad for the Kotex
stick tampon, 1973,
right before the Arab oil
...................................................................................
perfect Kotex
......................................................
Two contributions
..............................................................................................
Oh, those nutty
Norway, probably 1990s
.............................................................
won the 1994 Always
pads/Sassy ad contest!!
...............................................................
German tampon that
absorbs your flow and
claims to buzz
away menstrual pain.
The company writes
that tests indicate it
is at least as
effective as
ibuprofen.
(its Web site, in
..............................................................................
Beautiful French
Kotex ad, part
of a trend, 1994
..................................................................................
You'll laugh!
You'll cry!
Read Gail Collins's
Sexual Spirit of '76
in today's (23 August) New
York Times.
I'm about to read Sinclair
Lewis's Main Street
partly in response to the
.........................................................
"When I was young, about
13, we were not allowed to
use tampons as my parents
felt we were too young to
use them when we first got
our periods. My first
experience ... " (continued)
................................................................................
Addition to
U.S.A.: Scarlet
.................................................................
about menstruation from an
anonymous contributor
....................................................................................................................
Is menstruation a laughing
Ads for Tampons
tampons and Kotex maxi
............................................................
What do you think
about toxic
shock syndrome (TSS)?
Sharra Vostral, Ph.D.,
associate professor of
gender and women's studies
and history at University
of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign,
wants your opinion at
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/toxicshock
Dr. Vostral visited MUM
when it was a REAL
museum in my house
in the 1990s. TSS, of
course, got huge publicity
and some other menstrual
products caused some women
to lose their lives and
limbs. The industry
afterwards eliminated
questionable materials and
changed standards for use.
TSS was and is not limited
to these products or to
................................................................................
Uh, oh! Can Kotex solve
this problem?
Like, did a man start this
, October 1953
........................................................
Famous Edward Steichen
contributes to
................................................................
Art of Menstruation
Additions to Dr.
Nelson Soucasaux's art
...........................................................
"Study Says
Meeting Contraception
Needs Could Cut Maternal
Deaths by a Third [in
the World]"
the New York Times
See Little
Doozee, an old
contraceptive douche.
.....................................................................
travel ads from 1922
.....................................................................
Artist Peter Max
influences an ad
Pursettes, the
tampon with a lubricated
tip and no applicator, 1976
.................................................................................................
India's "Right to
Pee" campaign
pee for free in public
toilets but women have to
the gruesome
New York Times story.
BTW, except temporary ones
for parades and the like,
as far as I know
Washington, D.C., which I
live near, has no public
toilets except in
restaurants, museums,
etc., typical
for America.
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