Little Doozee, an after-the-party
contraceptive douche nozzle for a soda bottle.
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 pills ad, 1952 (Australia)
- Pristeen genital spray ad, 1969 (U.S.A.) -
Spalt pain tablets, 1936 (Germany) - Vionell genital spray ad, 1970, with Cheryl Tiegs (Germany)
- Zonite douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.)
The Perils of Vaginal Douching (essay by Luci
Capo Rome) - the odor page
Read 1930s criticism of douche
products Zonite and Lysol.
See Lysol information
in old newspapers
and Lysol ads from 1948
and 1934.
Visit the odor page.
 
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MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH
New Knowledge for Women:
A Manual of Marriage Hygiene
American Health Association, 1933, U.S.A.
Family planning (contraception), sex education, nurse, abortion,
diseases & health of women, vaginal douche techniques,
birth control, reproduction, menstruation
Birth control disclaimer
Below: I enlarged the statement
on the right-hand page (see the bottom of this page)
so you can compare it with some of the restrictions the birth-control movement
had to
deal with.
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Below: The booklet almost
comes clean.
But compare the following (from the first page)
with the manual's statement, enlarged below:
"The Comstock Act, (ch. 258 17 Stat. 598 enacted March 3, 1873)
is a United States federal law which made it illegal to send any 'obscene,
lewd, and/or lascivious' materials through the mail, including
contraceptive devices and information. In addition to banning contraceptives,
this act also banned the distribution of information
on abortion for educational purposes following the ideal of 'Hear
no Evil, See no Evil.' Twenty-four states passed similar prohibitions on
materials distributed within the states.[1] Collectively, these state and
federal restrictions are known as the Comstock laws.
"The sale and distribution of obscene materials has been unlawful
in most of the American states since the early 1800s, and has been prohibited
by federal law since 1873. The federal anti-obscenity laws are still in
effect in 2008 and are enforced,[2] though there are extensive debates
on what is 'obscene.' . . .
"In 1932, [Margaret] Sanger arranged
for a shipment of diaphragms to be mailed from Japan to a sympathetic doctor
in New York City. When U.S. customs confiscated the package as illegal
contraceptive devices, Sanger helped file a lawsuit. In 1936,
a federal appeals court ruled in United States v. One Package of Japanese
Pessaries that the federal government could not interfere
with doctors providing contraception to their patients.
"In 1965, the U.S. Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut struck
down one of the remaining Comstock laws, the bans on contraception in Connecticut
and Massachusetts. However, Griswold only applied
to marital relationships. Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972) extended its
holding to unmarried persons as well."
(From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_Law [I added the red emphasis])
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End Mon Docteur douche
set from the 1920s.
SECRET contraceptive tampon: Lehn & Fink
New Improved Tampon - Little Doozee, an after-the-party contraceptive douche nozzle for a soda
bottle. -
Birth control and religion | Birth control drugs, old | Birth control douche
& sponges Read 1930s criticism
of douche products
Lysol & Zonite and.
See Lysol information
in old newspapers
and Lysol ads from 1948
and 1934. All
tampons on this site.
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.)
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