ADS for Kotex Lightdays pantiliners in this kit; they feature named women, a rarity. But see
famous women in menstrual hygiene ads.
AD for Ultra Thin Maxi Pads in this kit showing what looks like an embarrassed woman.
PLAYTEX introduced the evil plastic applicator for tampons that you see in this kit.
Very early stick-in-panties pads in place of belts and special underpants.
More underpants.
MANY BOOKLETS menstrual hygiene companies made for girls, women and teachers - patent medicine - a list of books and articles about menstruation - videos
All TAMPONS &
all PADS on this site
What did women do about menstruation in the past?
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Some MUM site links:
HOMEPAGE |
MUM address & What does MUM mean? |
Email the museum |
Privacy on this site |
Who runs this museum?? |
Amazing women! |
Art of menstruation (and awesome ancient art of menstruation) |
Artists (non-menstrual) |
Asbestos |
Belts |
Bidets |
Birth control and religion |
Birth control drugs, old |
Birth control douche & sponges |
Founder bio |
Bly, Nellie |
MUM board |
Books: menstruation & menopause (& reviews) |
Cats |
Company booklets for girls (mostly) directory |
Contraception and religion |
Contraceptive drugs, old |
Contraceptive douche & sponges |
Costumes |
Menstrual cups |
Cup usage |
Dispensers |
Douches, pain, sprays |
Essay directory |
Examination, gynecological (pelvic) (short history) |
Extraction |
Facts-of-life booklets for girls |
Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads |
FAQ |
Feminine napkin, towel, pad directory |
Founder/director biography |
Gynecological topics by Dr. Soucasaux |
Humor |
Huts |
Links |
Masturbation |
Media coverage of MUM |
Menarche booklets for girls and parents |
Miscellaneous |
Museum future |
Norwegian menstruation exhibit |
Odor |
Olor |
Pad, towel, napkin directory |
Patent medicine |
Poetry directory |
Products, some current |
Puberty booklets for girls and parents|
Religion |
Religión y menstruación |
Your remedies for menstrual discomfort |
Menstrual products safety |
Sanitary napkin, towel, pad directory |
Seguridad de productos para la menstruación |
Science |
Shame |
Slapping, menstrual |
Sponges |
Synchrony |
Tampon directory |
Early tampons |
Teen ads directory |
Tour of the former museum (video) |
Towel, pad, sanitary napkin directory |
Underpants & panties directory |
Videos, films directory |
Words and expressions about menstruation |
Would you stop menstruating if you could? |
What did women do about menstruation in the past? |
Washable pads |
Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site.
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.


Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health

Becoming Aware Educational Kit
Puberty kit for girls & their mothers (Kotex, 1992?, U.S.A.)
Box contains booklets for mothers & their daughters, and sample menstrual pads & tampons
Explains menstruation, adolescence, tampons, girls' growth, menstrual pads
Lightdays, maxi pad, pantiliner, overnite
Pads & tampon in this kit
UltraThin maxi pads

First page of pads & tampons in this kit. Introduction to this kit. Parent's Guide in kit. Sarah's Story (for girls) in kit.
ADS for Kotex Lightdays pantiliners in this kit - AD for Ultra Thin Maxi Pads in this kit - Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads.
An embarrassed woman demonstrates this pad in an AD.
Below: The back of the bag, which flips open by pulling the edge (arrow) upwards; the user then
pulls out the pad. The user can then put the bloody pad back into the bag and toss it not into the toilet,
not over her shoulder, not into the next stall but into a trash receptacle.
See disposal bags from around the world.
Below: The pad measures 8 3/4 x 3 3/4" (22.2 x 9.5 cm).
Below: Peel the well-meaning (a term sometimes used to describe me) Kotex Understands strip off and . . .
Below: . . . using the Kotex Overnite pad as an example, below, you see the three pieces of tape
that hold the pad to the crotch of the panties. I've heard that much public hair has been lost
when attention-deficit afflicted users put the pad in upside down.
NEXT | Security tampons (box) - Security tampon itself - UltraThin maxi pad - OverNites pad -
Thin maxi pad - Curved maxi pads - Maxi pad - Lightdays pantiliner - Lightdays Longs pantiliner
ADS for Kotex Lightdays pantiliners in this kit - AD for Ultra Thin Maxi Pads in this kit - Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads.
Introduction to this kit. Parent's Guide. Sarah's Story. Very early Kotex stick-in-panties pads in place of belts and special underpants.
More underpants. MANY MORE booklets menstrual hygiene companies made for girls, women and teachers - patent medicine -
a list of books and articles about menstruation

Copyright 2009 Harry Finley