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ONLY WOMEN BLEED

April 2nd 2008 23:30
Do I have a subject for you in this blog !!! While browsing around the web today I came across a website that was all about the history of womens periods, feminine odour and all other kinds of complimentary things. I tell you it was fascinating, in between howling with laughter and utter horror at the inventions and insulting ads (mostly by men) I couldn’t wait to show you all what I found. It’s not supposed to be a nice subject is it? But I couldn’t stop reading articles from the early nineteen hundreds that were so uninformed and really very funny. So here for your perusal is some of the things I came across.


Believe it or not this was a coupon women handed over at the drug store so they didn’t have to say out loud they needed some pads. I can just imagine a group of women standing behind a counter doing a mine act.

And these attractive articles are knitted pads. Yes you heard right, hand knitted pads. So next winter when your bored you know what to knit.


Of course then you needed something to keep the pad snug around your bleeding fanny so these little numbers were just the thing, very fashionable !!

Or you could go for this style, I bet a man invented the leopard skin nappy like contraption, even when your bleeding they want you to look sexy.
If you happened to be the old fashioned type and didn’t like the slutty leopard skin nappies you could always borrow grandma’s crutchless pantaloons so you could whack on a pad where the hole was.

For those of you who liked a more modern approach there were always theatrical tampons, yes that’s really the product’s name. I pissed myself laughing at this one!! Were they special tampons you saved especially for that big date to the theatre? What the???

As time went by the tampons became more modern, like the ones above that tell you on the box as well as absorbing blood they also absorb all the worry. Good, does that mean I can throw away my anti anxiety tablets?

Then of course we had to worry about the rotten odour that floats up from the nether regions and offends our boyfriends. No worries, throw a bit of lysol around the old fanny and make him a happy man. Then he won’t lock you in the bathroom.

Or you could try filling this wonderful creation with water and have a fanny bath. Nothing like the sensation of warm water being pumped up you !!

For those of you that really take romance seriously you could have taken the love quiz. A delightful little article that tells lets you know you stink.

And to top it off all these wonderful products have been approved by that wonderful little place the bureau of feminine hygiene, can you believe that such a place even exsited? There was so much more and the old ads were really funny, or offensive, depends how you look at it.


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Comment by James Rickard

April 3rd 2008 01:09
And yet--there's always the sponge-worthy guy!

Comment by the world of gaye

April 3rd 2008 02:26

Comment by Cibbuano

April 3rd 2008 02:55
funny stuff... I suppose it's sobering that, in parts of the world, menstruation is still regarded as something evil or dirty...

Comment by RubySoho

April 3rd 2008 03:26

What's this website called Gaye?

And Cibb- they don't call it The Curse for nothing!

Comment by the world of gaye

April 3rd 2008 04:06
One of the is www.mum.org and the other site is called (I think) grandmas closet

Comment by Morgan Bell

April 3rd 2008 07:52
haha great post . . . i dont know that feminin hygiene product advertising is really that much better today? lol

Comment by Michaelie

April 3rd 2008 10:15
Oh Christ! It's things like this that make me glad I was born when I was. Mind you, I know two sisters I went to school with who are extremely frugal and still make their own!

Very interesting

Michaelie

Comment by Cheryl J

April 3rd 2008 10:19
This reminds me of a quote I once read 'when we have sex she uses a sponge, foam and a diaphragm. The woman is a spermicidal maniac'

Thanks for the read. Is the Bureau of Feminine Hygiene next door to The Pond's Institute?

Comment by the world of gaye

April 3rd 2008 10:34
Funny isn't it that men pick their noses in public, scratch their balls, scratch their arses and fart and burp in front of women and WE are the dirty little smelly ones !!!

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