Hundreds of jokes about menstruation!
See a Dutch cartoon strip about a nurse with PMS
and much art about menstruation. And see the American
"Sylvia" comic strip episode about this
museum, MUM, and some cartoon-style ads for menstrual products, here, here and here.
And see my own comic strip about the future of
this museum.
See early tampons and a list of tampon on this site - at least the ones I've cataloged.
Douche apparatus: Germany (1933, as Hitler
was coming to power), Australia, an
American book promoting the practice, and
instructional material for an American company
that sold douche equipment and menstrual cups at Tupperware-like
parties in women's houses!
See an American douche set, Mon Docteur (My
Doctor in French), with instructions and booklets, from about 1929.
See also Australian
douche ad (ca. 1900) - Fresca douche powder (U.S.A.)
(date ?) - Kotique douche liquid ad, 1974 (U.S.A.)
- Liasan (1) genital wash ad, 1980s (Germany)
- Liasan (2) genital wash ad, 1980s (Germany)
- Lysol douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Lysol douche liquid ad, 1948 (U.S.A.) - Marvel
douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Midol menstrual
pain pill ad, 1938 (U.S.A.) - Midol booklet (selections),
1959 (U.S.A.) - Mum deodorant cream ad, 1926 (U.S.A.)
- Myzone menstrual pain pill, 1952 (Australia)
- Pristeen genital spray ad, 1969 (U.S.A.) -
Spalt pain tablets, 1936 (Germany) - Sterizol douche liquid ad, 1926 (U.S.A.) - Vionell
genital spray ad, 1970, with Cheryl Tiegs (Germany) - Zonite
douche ad, 1928 (U.S.A.)
 
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Cartoon, "Frauen gemeinsam," (Common to women), about menstrual
sychronization, Germany, Brigitte magazine, 1992
Feminism is alive and well in Germany and has been; a woman runs the
country (in 2006). And Germans tend to be more open about bodily functions
than Americans, which can be a relief when you live there, away from the
Land of the Puritans.
Renate Alf drew the cartoon, which appeared in issue 16, 1992, of Brigitte
magazine, a popular and mainstream newsstand magazine for women with articles
about cooking, fashion, etc. I found it in the catalog "Menstruation:
Monatshygiene im Wandel von 1900 bis heute," Text und Katalog: Sabine
Zinn-Thomas und Walter Stolle. Eine Ausstellung des Hessischen Landesmuseums
Darmstadt in der Außenstelle Lorsch, 26.11.1998 bis 31.7.1999. My
translation: "Menstruation: Changing menstrual hygiene [in Germany,
mostly] from 1900 to today [1998]." Text and catalog: Sabine Zinn-Thomas
and Walter Stolle. An exhibition of the Hessian State Museum, Darmstadt,
in the branch at Lorsch, from November 26, 1998 to July 31, 1999.
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I added my translation of the text.
Note how they're smiling during ovulation (Eisprung). There was a recent
study showing how women dress sexier at that time. Scottish Dr. Maria Stopes
showed a similar thing in her chart
of 1918.
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See a Dutch cartoon strip about a nurse with PMS
and much art about menstruation. See
the American "Sylvia"
comic strip episode about this museum, MUM, and some cartoon-style ads for
menstrual products, here,
here and here. And see my own comic strip about the future
of this museum. And Hundreds of jokes
about menstruation!
See early tampons and a list of tampon on this site - at least the ones I've cataloged.
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