HOMEPAGE
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 Dcovers the stretch material
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.
The Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health
menstruation, advertisement, sanitary napkin
Modess menstrual pad ads,
1970-71, U.S.A.
What's Modess made of?
| If the girl hears the
facts in the first two paragraphs from her mother
she's a lucky kid. When the museum was a real one in my house, more than one woman and students from the University of Maryland told me that their mothers told them nothing before their first menstruation (menarche) and very little afterwards. But one Maryland student told a group of us that when she was sitting on her bed trying to figure out how to get the furshlugginer tampon in the first time, her mother appeared and said, "Lie back and I'll show you." She said it was the closest emotionally she had ever been to her. I'm not going into the symbolism of the cat on the girl's lap, no siree. I thank the donor! |
| Three ads discussing what Modess is made of. (And the baby ad.) | ||
| August, 1970 | March, 1970 | May, 1971 BELOW |
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| Below:
Over 20 cats have owned me and THIS cat
isn't real. But then the ad doesn't say it is. But the head is realistically - DEAD. Um, so, what were we talking about? Right, menstrual pads. Lessee. The cat took off his tennis shoes. Good, since they were dirty. But shouldn't there be FOUR?? What a mysterious ad. From Woman's Day. |
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MORE Modess, tampons - German ads for teens - more ads for teens