An earlier Tell It Like It Is
Fibs (U.S.A., Kotex, 1930s-1940s) first successful Kotex tampon (unsuccessful ones were probably: Fibs tampon & box (about 1937) - ad - many newspaper ads, 1935-59. And I have a cat named Fibs (more cats).
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Tell It Like It Is menstrual tampon-use booklet for women, 1981, Kimberly-Clark Corp. (Kotex tampons and menstrual napkins, belts and underpants), U.S.A.
Complete booklet

Something big - and important - had happened since an earlier Tell It Like It Is appeared: toxic shock syndrome.

Actually, TSS had probably worked its evil for untold years and even affected (and affects) men. But its sudden outburst in tampon users is famously associated with Rely tampon, which seemed to make a wonderful breeding ground for the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, a ferocious causer of disease.

The outbreak forced tampon makers, at the insistence of the American government, to warn women against allowing tampons of any kind to remain in their vaginas for too long. Kotex warned women several times in this booklet about this danger although most of the information and drawings are from the earlier one. And it does not name the disease or say what caused it - odd, since at least Procter & Gamble knew what it was when it send its "stop" letter to dealers in 1980.

The public usually associates Kotex with menstrual pads. (Many Americans use the name Kotex for any menstrual pad. At the end of a hearing on an unrelated topic I attended years ago a gentleman stood up and announced to the exiting audience, "He [me, your MUM] has a Kotex museum in his house!"They looked as if they thought he was loony. Heh, heh, heh.) But Kotex early, in the 1930s, made commercial tampons, maybe the first ones - Moderne Women, fax and Nunap - before it produced a seller in Fibs.

Fibs (U.S.A., Kotex, 1930s-1940s) first successful Kotex tampon (unsuccessful ones were probably Moderne Women, fax and Nunap) - Fibs tampon & box (about 1937) - ad - many newspaper ads, 1935-59. And I have a cat named Fibs (more cats).
Kotex stick tampons (U.S.A.) & their ads, 1960s to 1970s - Comfortube tampons (1967), box, tampons. (Tambrands donation, 1997)
Kotex pads
Tampons and underpants on this site.
An earlier Tell It Like It Is

Below: Front cover (p. 1). The back cover is blank except for the number 281 in the lower left corner. Each page measures 6 x 8.5" (15.2 x 21.6 cm).
 

NEXT cover (p. 1) 2-3 4-5 6-7 8-9 10-11
Fibs (U.S.A., Kotex, 1930s-1940s) first successful Kotex tampon (unsuccessful ones were probably Moderne Women, fax and Nunap) - Fibs tampon & box (about 1937) - ad - many newspaper ads, 1935-59. And I have a cat named Fibs (more cats). - Kotex stick tampons (U.S.A.) & their ads, 1960s to 1970s - Comfortube tampons (1967), box, tampons. (Tambrands donation, 1997) - Kotex pads - Tampons and underpants on this site. An earlier Tell It Like It Is
 

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