See more Tampax items: 1938 ads, U.S.A., the Netherlands - "Are you sure I'll still be a virgin?" ad (Feb. 1990) - August 1965 ad (U.S.A.) - a sign advertising Tampax during World War II - the original patent - an instruction sheet from the 1930s - and some other early commercial tampons 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 | Artists (non-menstrual) | Asbestos | Belts | Bidets | Bly, Nellie | MUM board | Books: menstruation and menopause (and reviews) | Cats | Company booklets for girls (mostly) directory | Contraception and religion | Costumes | Menstrual cups | Cup usage | Dispensers | Douches, pain, sprays | Essay directory | Extraction | Facts-of-life booklets for girls | Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads | FAQ | Founder/director biography | Gynecological topics by Dr. Soucasaux | Humor | Huts | Links | Masturbation | Media coverage of MUM | Menarche booklets for girls and parents | Miscellaneous | Museum future | Norwegian menstruation exhibit | Odor | Olor | Pad 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 | 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) | 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. Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.   Tour the former physical Museum of Menstruation. Unfinished cartoon strip about the future museum. Tampax Compak tampon ad Seventeen magazine, September 1990 Conceal Tampax in your hand? NO WAY! Plastic applicator? NO WAY! Well, WAY to both of those statements with Compak. NO WAY the older one could fit in the palm of your hand, and it had a more environmentally friendly cardboard applicator. Concealing the tampon by getting rid of the applicator was a selling point with Pursettes. (But it probably yielded to pressure to later add an applicator.) Most early American and many European tampons (o.b. notably), but also Pursettes from around a decade or three before Compak were small because they lacked applicators. Playtex crowed that it was the first to offer plastic applicators, an environmental killer. Below: This is how the ads appeared in the magazine, the right one two pages after the first. Below: Compare the zippier Compak box with the more traditional box from two years before. A Tambrands hand wrote on and donated this box to MUM, part of a generous gift from its archives. More: 1938 Tampax ads, U.S.A., the Netherlands - "Are you sure I'll still be a virgin?" ad (Feb. 1990) - August 1965 ad (U.S.A.) All tampon items on this site. © 2015 Harry Finley. It is illegal to reproduce or distribute any of the work on this Web site in any manner or medium without written permission of the author. Please report suspected violations to hfinley@mum.org Harry Finley is the founder and director, and he created, writes and maintains this site.