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 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
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
Ads for menstrual
pad holders
|
| Below: This is
the whole page, or what's's left of it, in a
Sears, Roebuck catalog from the late 1930s or early 1940s. You see the middle section next, having already carefully examined and thought about the top section several weeks ago. Er, right? |
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| Below: As
promised, the middle section of the page.
Oxidation discolored it. Wikipedia writes this about the faintly orange color tea rose (written tearose below), a new one to your MUM: "This color is popular in interior design for painting bedrooms, especially among women." Every one but two of these items is tearose. The exceptions are white. "NUVO"'s appearance is right out of the art déco style book, which helps date this page. "Simplox" is too close to "SimPLOPS" for comfort but it's the key to "locks," showing that the wearer allegedly locked the pad to the belt, not pinned it. Pins often came with belts (see Lastex). Tampax and other tampons famously assured women that they wouldn't have to use pins with its discharge absorber. See the lock enlarged below the large page. And see another "lox," this one assuring users the thing won't fall out of her vagina. |
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| Below: The Simplox "lock"
enlarged. It's a shame the smallest words aren't
decipherable. |
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| All of these
devices endured
for decades in modified form. See
more belts, panties and shields. |