First of all, it takes a brave man to want to read a leaflet by Miss Deb, let alone a mid-century mother and her young daughter. In the 1960s, Kotex promoted menstrual pads for young girls with the marketing idea to catch them while they’re young. “Deb” stood for young debutante. How clever!
Shocking to think that the Museum of Menstruation has been around for only 16 years, when women have been menstruating since the beginning of the time. Harry Finley of Maryland has now closed his wood-paneled basement menstrual collection to the public. You can only visit the museum via website. What could you find when it was still open? The first commercial tampons ever made! Thousands of menstrual product ads! A matte board describing menstrual physiology! Items from PMS Crunch (Time of the Month food company)! Vintage ladies room dispensers! A pink menstrual cup dress made out of hundreds of…yes, you guessed it…menstrual cups!
Okay, men are you still with me?
