Earlier Kotex tampons: Fibs (started 1930s)
and Nunap (early 1930s).
See more Kotex items: First ad
(1921; scroll to bottom of page) - ad 1928 (Sears
and Roebuck catalog) - Lee Miller ads (first
real person in a menstrual hygiene ad, 1928) - Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928, Australian edition;
there are many links here to Kotex items) - Preparing
for Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls; Australian edition) - 1920s
booklet in Spanish showing disposal method
- box from about 1969 -
"Are you in the know?" ads
(Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) -
See more ads on the Ads for Teenagers main page
DIRECTORY of all topics (See also the
SEARCH ENGINE, bottom
of page.)
Comic strip: A conservative American
family visits the (future) Museum of Menstruation
 
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Kotex Comfortube menstrual tampons, 1967, U.S.A.
Box with embossed flower
& tampon
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As I wrote on the page for the 1960s Kotex pad,
most American woman want to wind up smelling like
a rose, not menstrual blood! But at least at times in the past -
and maybe today in places - women allowed others to
smell and see her menstrual blood as a sign of fertility and to sexually
attract others, as extraordinary this may seem to most North Americans
and Europeans (and to me just a couple of years ago). (The English feminist
Selina Cooper writes (towards the bottom of the page)
about this among English girls in a cotton mill around 1900, where straw covered the floor to absorb their escaping blood.)
This fact lends credence to my suspicion that many or most women in Europe
and North America prior to about 1900 bled into their
clothing - that is, they did not use rags or tampons or anything
else to absorb and conceal the blood. Times sure have changed - why? Read
more about this.
See a cup-shaped tulip advertising a menstrual
cup.
See the Comfortube tampon.
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The box measures 5.37" x 3.5" x 1.37" (about 13.7 x 8.8
x 3.6 cm).
Embossed flower, enlarged, below, and darkened
to make the embossing visible.
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Back of box and details below.
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Above: Sides are identical, as are the
ends (below).
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NEXT: see the Comfortube tampon. See the first major Kotex tampon (1930s),
Fibs, and its possible early 1930s antecedents;
and a Kotex pad probably from the 1930s and one
from the early 1960s.
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