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?
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Email the museum |
Privacy on this site |
Who runs this museum?? |
Amazing women! |
Art of menstruation (and ancient art of menstruation)
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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
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Underpants & panties directory
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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
Ad for Kotex
menstrual pads
Tom Hall, who illustrated this ad, painted many ads
in mid-20th century American magazines, three of
which you see below. |
| Below: Although the "gentleman"
looks as if he's had enough, the lady diverts attention from menstruation and from the swastika on what looks like a towel right below her elbow. For most people, swastikas and menstruation occupy dark corners. |
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| Below: Again, a hand calls attention
to a dissipated face in another Hall ad. Lady: Have
we met?
Gentleman: Uh, no. Can I have your beer? |
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| Below: Are the faces the same? |
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| Below: So, is this the same
man in the other two Hall ads? Hall, like many commercial artists, often used the same model. Christian Leyendecker (below right), for example, used his live-in boyfriend to model for some of his paintings in an earlier part of the 20th century. |
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| Below: As luck would have it, flip
the Kotex ad over and these hotel bell hops supply PM, Perfect Mixer, - for whiskey? - to occupants of a room. PM reflects backwards in the ad's mirror. Someone else painted the ad, not Hall. Again, florid faces. Hmm, maybe they're gawking at what the guests are up to in this run-up to the "Mad Men" decades. |
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MUCH MORE Kotex